Benvenuto Cellini overture (10:53) -- Roméo et Juliette, Love scene (16:41) -- La damnation de Faust, three excerpts: Minuet of the will-o'-the-wisps ; Dance of the sylphs ; Rákóczy march (13:00) -- Le corsaire overture (8:04) -- Les Troyens: Trojan march ; Royal hunt & storm (16:00) -- La marseillaise (9:06).
Note
Principally opera excerpts; the 2nd work from a symphony; the 6th for orchestra and wordless chorus; the last is the French national anthem in Berlioz's arrangement for soprano and tenor solos, mixed chorus, boy's chorus, and orchestra.
Author
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869, composer.
Title
La Marseillaise & other Berlioz favorites / Hector Berlioz.
Publisher
Cleveland, OH : Telarc, [1988]
Playing time
011328
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ; David Zinman, conductor ; Sylvia McNair, soprano, Richard Leech, tenor (last work).
Event
Recorded 1987 October 5-6 Joseph Meyerhoff Concert Hall, Baltimore, Maryland.