Cleveland.com: Lang Lang and Cleveland Orchestra team up for a virtuoso night of Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and more
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Virtuosity was abundantly on display at Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, May 2, not only in the persona of pianist Lang Lang, but also in the music and orchestrations of ...
Lang Lang and Cleveland Orchestra team up for a virtuoso night of Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and more
Late in the 3rd movement of Berlioz’ “Symphonie Fantastique,” there is a passage that floors me every time I hear it. It’s not the loudest passage in the piece, nor is it the fastest or the most ...
(Les) Nuits d'été Hector Berlioz, Composer Elsa Maurus, Mezzo soprano Lille National Orchestra Jean-Claude Casadesus, Conductor Poème de l'amour et de la mer Jean-Claude Casadesus, Conductor Elsa ...
This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life ...
Seattle Times: Seattle Symphony, tenor Ian Bostridge in peak form for Berlioz concert
This month the Seattle Symphony Orchestra offers a mini-festival of Hector Berlioz’s music — works for which music director Ludovic Morlot has an obvious affinity and many interpretive ideas. Judging ...
The Guardian: Berlioz: a thrilling comeback by the master of the grand gesture
One hundred and fifty years after his death, Berlioz’s music is finally getting the audience it deserves. Why has it taken so long to be loved? The verdict on the composer Hector Berlioz when he died ...