Dimitri Mitropoulos - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - Speakers Corner LP

180-Gram Vinyl, Speakers Corner Audiophile Reissue

In 1830, just after Beethoven had completed his symphonies, a young Frenchman created a sensation with completely novel and exuberant orchestral music. Berlioz cast his massive five-movement Symphonie Fantastique as a musical drama, following an autobiographically motivated young artist who dreams, hallucinates and rages his way from the recurring 'idée fixe' through an opium intoxication to the nightmare of his own burial. Of the many high-quality recordings of the work, this benchmark performance by Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic makes the rhythms pulsate and blends the orchestral colors so subtly that new details emerge with every listening. Remastered using pure analogue components only.

Features

• 180-gram vinyl
• All-analogue Speakers Corner audiophile remaster; recorded February 1957, New York
• Label: Speakers Corner (originally Columbia Masterworks)

Track Listing

Side One:

1. I. Rêveries, Passions
2. II. Un Bal (A Ball)

Side Two:

1. III. Scène Aux Champs (Scene In The Country)
2. IV. Marche Au Supplice (March To The Gallows)
3. V. Songe D'une Nuit Du Sabbat (Dream Of The Witches' Sabbath)