COMPOSERS: Berlioz
LABELS: EuroArts
WORKS: Introducing Symphonie Fantastique
PERFORMER: Wulf Konold (commentary); Berlin PO/Mariss Jansons
CATALOGUE NO: 2056158
The introductory film conveys Berlioz’s extraordinary sensibility well, along with the radical nature of the work. Mariss Jansons’s performance is fine, if not as extreme as the music. Christopher Dingle