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Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

Saturday 11 February 2006 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)

Virtually everything that Hector Berlioz composed was inspired by a literary or theatrical idea. Even when he came to write his first symphony, he wrote it with a subtext - An Episode in the Life of an Artist. Stephen Johnson considers the different components that make up the Symphonie Fantastique, helped along by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.

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Duration:

1 hour

Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Duration 59 mins.

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