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Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
Catalogue No: 2642992
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Gemini
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)

Work length1:28:47

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Robert Tear (tenor)
London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn
Recorded: 1980-04-24
Recording Venue: 21-24 April 1980, Walthamstow Town Hall

Requiem and Kyrie

Track length12:28

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Dies irae

Track length13:17

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Quid sum miser

Track length3:56

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Rex tremendae

Track length6:10

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Quaerens me

Track length5:14

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Lacrymosa

Track length10:01

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Offertorium

Track length9:32

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Hostias

Track length3:33

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Sanctus

Track length11:59

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Agnus Dei

Track length12:37

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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Work length55:30

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London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn
Recorded: 1976-12-14
Recording Venue: 19 May 1975 & 14 December 1976, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road & Kingsway Hall, London

Rêveries - Passions

Track length15:33

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Un bal

Track length6:30

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Scène aux champs

Track length17:15

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Marche au supplice

Track length5:28

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Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat

Track length10:44

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This issue brings together Berlioz’s greatest symphony – the fantastique – and grandest choral work. The former was inspired by his wish to impress the actress, Harriet Smithson, with whom he had become infatuated seeing her as Juliet as well as Hamlet’s Ophelia. He invoked her in all five movements by employing a theme – an “idée fixe” – in this autobiographical work which has become not only well known and extremely popular. The “Grande Messe des Morts” or Requiem requires such enormous forces to make its full effect that performances are necessarily rare events. With the main orchestra and chorus occupying the centre Berlioz employs brass bands to the left, right, behind and even behind the conductor giving the Tuba mirum section in the Dies Irae a spectacular effect on the listener. Parts of the Requiem, however, are handled with extreme delicacy thus when the full forces come together their impact is even more thrilling. André Previn and his London Symphony Orchestra clearly revel in the opportunities offered by both works; the Requiem, with the London Philharmonic Choir, was recorded in the vast space of Walthamstow Town Hall to imitate the vast acoustic space of “Les Invalides” in Paris where it was first performed.

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