Orchestral, Symphonies, Berlioz (composer)
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What is there left to say about Symphonie fantastique? Plenty, on the evidence of this vibrant new recording of Berlioz’s extraordinary masterpiece...Mäkelä gets the strings to shun the comfort... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th June 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Davis is always lithe and nuanced, somehow eliciting a diaphonous glow even in the forceful moments and charming the ear —
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Building a Library, October 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
Recorded in May 2013, Philharmonie Berlin
Deborah York (soprano) & Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
The bonus documentary on Claudio Abbado's first year with the Berlin Philharmonic is full of insights…[the last concert] gave the [Berliners] a chance to show in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Symphonic
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'Fantastique' indeed as the symphony has all its original colours via the stunning period instruments of Anima Eterna —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th April 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Disc of the Month
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This superb recording further confirms, if it were necessary, that performing such music with contemporary instruments, but strings and no vibrato anywhere is far more than an exercise in scholarship.... —
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Record Review, 2nd November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Vadim Repin, Daniel Hope (violins)
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel
Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are, not surprisingly, ideally fluent, and the excellent Turkish players recreate Turnage’s enigmatic soundworld with aplomb. This is an uncompromising score, but... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Overture Les francs-juges
RecommendedChicago Symphony Chorus (chorus)
Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Classical Album of the Year
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Classical Album of the Year
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique & Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie
RecommendedSwedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
an arresting juxtaposition … Smart work from the uncredited harpsichordist and taut direction by Daniel Harding anchor the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the suite from Hippolyte... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2019, Recommended
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Gatti’s reading is poised and energetic, lucid and detailed. Its unconventional emphasis on scene-painting over sweeping gesture yields some fascinating results in the opening movements…the... —
