Forgotten Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette

A homage to love, Shakespeare and the symphonic form, Berlioz's symphony should be recognised as a triumph of drama, formal coherence and lyric beautyAt a time when Hector Berlioz's music is played more often than ever before, when performances of the Symphonie Fantastique, Les Nuits d'été, The Damnation of Faust and even the Requiem have become almost commonplace events, and his magnum opus The Trojans has at last been recognised as what Donald Tovey called "one of the most gigantic and convi...

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