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Radio 3,46 mins

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Discovering Music

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Virtually everything that Hector Berlioz composed was inspired by a literary or theatrical idea. Even when he came to write his first symphony, he wrote it with a sub-text - "An Episode in the Life of an Artist". Stephen Johnson considers the different components that make up the Symphonie Fantastique (Op. 14) assisted by the Âé¶¹Éç Philharmonic and conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.

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