'This is a big reading, spacious and detailed, but one that emphasises the unease underlying even the most lyrical passages. The ‘Rêveries’ sound subtly insistent, the idée fixe obsessive; the ball sounds ethereal and half unreal from the outset and even the pastoral shawms in the fields are ominous, the gathering thunder foreboding ahead of the ‘March to the Scaffold’.' Michael Scott Rohan
Berlioz • Varèse
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Varèse: Ionisation
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
BR Klassik 900121
For a full review of this recording, pick up a copy of the July issue of BBC Music Magazine
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