Berlioz Odyssey
The Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Building A Library, November 2025, Recommended Recording (Harold en Italie)
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering...
Berlioz Odyssey
The Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
-
Building A Library, November 2025, Recommended Recording (Harold en Italie)
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering...
About
Colin Davis was internationally recognised as the foremost Berlioz interpreter of his time, and the recordings he made with the London Symphony Orchestra stand as some of the greatest accounts of the composer’s work ever recorded.
This 16 disc box set brings together all of Davis’ iconic Berlioz recordings made for LSO Live, from celebrated interpretations of popular orchestral works to landmark opera recordings, including the double Grammy Award-winning Les Troyens.
Contents and tracklist
Work length57:17
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Rêveries - Passions
Track length15:51
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III. Scène aux champs
Track length17:16
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Work length1:39:06
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No. 2, Roméo seul - Tristesse - Bruit lointain de bal et de concert - Grande Fête chez Capulet
Track length13:44
No. 3, Scène d'amour. Nuit sereine - Le Jardin de Capulet, silencieux et désert "Ohé! Capulets, bonsoir!"
Track length20:27
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No. 7, Final. La foule accourt au cimetière - Rixe des Capulets et des Montagus "Quoi! Roméo de retour" - Récitatif du Père Laurence "Je vais dévoiler le mystère"
Track length4:16
Scène II / III - Ronde de paysans. "Les bergers laissent ... Mais d'un éclat guerrier"
Track length4:21
Scène VIII - Final. "Villes entourées" - Chanson d'étudiants. " Jam nox stellata velamina pandit"
Track length5:02
Scène XII - "Maintenant, chantons a cette belle" - Sérénade de Méphistophélès "Devant la maison"
Track length2:38
- Andrew Greenan, Michelle DeYoung, Kenneth Tarver, Petra Lang, Mark Stone, Sara Mingardo, Toby Spence, Ben Heppner, Bulent Bezduz, Orlin Anastassov, Peter Mattei, Leigh Melrose, Roderick Earle, Isabelle Cals, Stephen Milling, Alan Ewing, Tigran Martirossian
- London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Colin Davis
No. 3, "Reviens à toi ... Pauvre âme ... Si tu m'aimes ... Mais le ciel et la terre ... Quitte-nous dès ce soir"
Track length14:07
No. 28, Final. "J'ose à peine annoncer ... Reine! Je suis Énée! ... Des armes! Des armes!"
Track length8:08
No. 49, Cérémonie Funèbre. "Dieux de l'oubli, dieux du Ténare ... S'il faut enfin qu'Énée aborde Italie"
Track length4:39
- Tebea Zimmermann (soloist)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Colin Davis
I. Harold aux Montagnes, Scènes de mélancolie, de bonheur et de joie (Adagio - Allegro)
Track length14:12
III. Sérénade d'un Montagnard des Abruzzes à sa maîtresse (Allegro assai - Allegretto)
Track length6:30
- Darren Jeffery, Laura Claycomb, Andrew Kennedy, Peter Coleman-Wright, Andrew Foster-Williams, Jacques Imbrailo, Alasdair Elliott, Gregory Kunde, Isabelle Cals, John Relyea
- London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
- Sir Colin Davis
- Matthew Rose, Yann Beuron, Peter Rose, William Dazeley, Karen Cargill
- London Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae
- Sir Colin Davis
No. 8 - L'adieu Des Bergers à la Sainte Famille (The Shepherds' Farewell) "Il s'en va loin"
Track length4:33
No. 9 - Le Repos de la Sainte Famille (The Holy Family At Rest) "Les pèlerins étant venus"
Track length6:39
- Colin Lee
- Choir of Eltham College, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
- Sir Colin Davis
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Best Collection
April 2019
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering recording Davis made 30 years earlier, and The Damnation of Faust is similarly thrilling…David Cairns’s notes for the music are sometimes as revelatory as the performances.
Classical Music March 2019
[Symphonie Fantastique] This 2000 performance glows, achieving perfect balance between the lyric and the grotesque. The 2003 Harold en Italie, featuring a strong and eloquent Tabea Zimmermann, is more colourful even than with Imai in 1975. [Roméo et Juliette] The chorus excels, subtly in Juliette’s funeral procession and gloriously in the finale. [Faust] one of the finest performances ever recorded, including Davis’s 1973 account. The two great choral masterpieces of the Te Deum and the Grande Messe emerge as magnificent sonic experiences, the LSO brass on fire; they also offer deeply spiritual messages.