In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA, and Music Director and Conductor Salvador Brotons, invite you to the musical experience of Symphonie Fantastique. This program features two fine symphonies, beginning ...

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique and Lélio. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound. Leonard Bernstein memorably called Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” “the first psychedelic symphony ...

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra two-weekend long Winter Festival kicked off Friday night with a stirring account of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique." (Courtesy of NJSO) NEWARK -- New Jersey ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” sounded just as ...

Hearts and flowers, a box of chocolates and a candlelight dinner are a perfectly acceptable way to show a sweetheart you care. But if each day is truly Valentine’s Day and your infatuation with ...

Berlioz's intended companion for his Symphonie fantastique was Lélio, or the Return to Life - an assemblage of mostly magical earlier pieces strung together with an autobiographical narration.

‘Symphonie Fantastique,” Basil Twist’s abstract, wordless 1998 underwater puppet show set to the music of Hector Berlioz, is being revived downtown. Here’s part of what I wrote about it in 2004: “What ...

Symphonie fantastique, Movements: Rêveries Passions Susan Graham, Mezzo soprano Hector Berlioz, Composer Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Simon Rattle, Conductor Symphonie fantastique, Movements: Un bal ...

The defining feature of these performances is elegance – a Gallic elegance. Rafael Payare and his Montreal Symphony rein in the splashier aspects of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival in favour of something ...