Bernard Chamayou's credentials as a Liszt interpreter were demonstrated in his hugely impressive three-disc set of the complete Années de Pelèrinage, released for the Liszt bicentenary last year. His ...
On Friday, August 9, the Bard Music Festival returns with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival's 34th season examines Hector ...
In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...
Harold in Italy – inspired by Byron – consists of four orchestral scenes with solo viola. Berlioz wrote it for Paganini, violin and viola virtuoso, though he never played it. This disc links with ...
Tom Service joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra explore music by Berlioz, his friend Liszt and by the 20th century French composer Henri Dutilleux. Tom Service finds out more about Berlioz's skills as an ...
Critics bayed for Hector Berlioz’s blood whenever his music was played but happily for the composer, today it’s their reputations and not his in the guillotine Hector Berlioz was a one-off – a genius ...
Tom Service joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra explore music by Berlioz, his friend Liszt and by the 20th century French composer Henri Dutilleux. Tom Service finds out more about Berlioz's skills as an ...
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