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Hector Berlioz: Te Deum
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[T]he same Berlioz who wanted to be passionately just to music--of whom the great French music critic Romain Rolland wrote, "his colossal force is at the service of a...tender heart"--the same Berlioz was agonized in how he was with women. There his anger and his tenderness were tragically far apart.
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Loosely based on Byron's epic poem Childe Harold, this "symphony with viola" could be thought of as Berlioz's "pastoral/picaresque" symphony. It does not seem to be terribly popular with orchestra programmers these days. With its wealth of good tunes and easily manageable length, it deserves better.
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Berlioz is not known in the musical world for doing things by halves. In his 1849 Te Deum - named from the opening line of the 4th-century hymn of praise which is its text - he envisioned a work which would make the most out of a large church or cathedral acoustic, with moments of the greatest intimacy woven in together with others with colossal impact.
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