#simon rattle

There are a handful of compositions that changed music history. This is one of them. Still a student, Berlioz became obsessed with an actress. The result was a work of startling originality, the first true Romantic composition: Symphonie Fantastique.

And so we begin with Hector Berlioz, the original tortured Romantic in an era that was full of them.  Musicologists routinely talk about the “Three Bs”—Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.  But for me, the third “B” has been and always will be Berlioz.  And I’m not alone: The original phrase, coined in the 1850s, specifically included Berlioz and I know many musicians who share my view.  Berlioz, however,…

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

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