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Hector Berlioz: St Petersburg
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This orchestral warhorse is unquestionably Berlioz's most-played composition, and a perennial audio demonstration favorite (at least the two final movements). Browsing my LP and CD shelves I find I have accumulated some 14 recordings of it. But for this review I will compare the Davis/LSO CD to what I regard as the gold standard fantastique: the 1962 RCA Living Stereo recording by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for which I have both an original LP and an excellent remastered XRCD2 reissue.
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As Berlioz père again stopped his allowance, Hector began to write for musical journals. At first ignorant of the ways of journalism, his wild utterances were the despair of his friends; later his trenchant pen was both admired and feared.
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Berlioz met Estelle Fornier - the object of his childhood affections - in Lyon for the first time in 40 years, and began a regular correspondence with her. Berlioz soon realised that he still longed for her, and eventually she had to inform him that there was no possibility that they could become closer than friends. By 1865, an initial printing of 1200 copies of his
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