Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Jean-François Heisser & Marie-Josèphe Jude
Album info
Album-Release:
2019
HRA-Release:
18.01.2019
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Artist: Jean-François Heisser & Marie-Josèphe Jude
Composer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14:
- 1Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 1. Rêveries - Passions (Transcribed for Piano Duet by Jean-François Heisser)14:42
- 2Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 2. Un bal (Transcribed for Piano Duet by Jean-François Heisser)06:05
- 3Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 3. Scène aux champs (Transcribed for Piano Duet by Jean-François Heisser)14:21
- 4Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 4. Marche au supplice (Transcribed for Piano Duet by Jean-François Heisser)06:40
- 5Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 5. Songe d'une nuit de sabbat (Transcribed for Piano Duet by Jean-François Heisser)10:31
Info for Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
A composition that marked the birth of the modern symphony orchestra, it was instead through the medium of the piano that Symphonie Fantastique became generally known to the public when Franz Liszt - a prime champion of the music of his friend, Hector Berlioz - made a transcription of the work for solo keyboard.
The project undertaken here by Jean-François Heisser and Marie-Josèphe Jude continues that respected tradition but it doubles the stakes and multiplies the pleasure: the expanded sound palette offered by the two-keyboard piano constructed by Pleyel and housed at Paris’s Museum of Music gives rise to unexpected colours emanating from the shared resonator box, and their fingerings (twenty fingers strong) can reproduce the minutest details of Berlioz’s dazzling, ground-breaking orchestral writing. The work of a master indeed.
Jean-Francois Heisser, piano
Marie-Josephe Jude, piano
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