Berlioz believed that intense personal experience and movement titles could enhance music's expressivity and blur the lines between 'pure music' and music tied to human situations.
Compositional Technique
The Symphonie Fantastique introduced innovations to symphonic music, including new instruments, textures, and rhythms.
Composer Biography
Berlioz, who had never heard an orchestra before coming to Paris in 1821 at age seventeen, absorbed the melodic style of composers like Gluck and Spontini.
Composition History
Hector Berlioz began composing the Symphonie Fantastique shortly after reading Victor Hugo's novel 'Le dernier jour d'un condamné', which influenced the symphony's themes.
Performer Biography
Robin Ticciati, the conductor, became the youngest conductor to appear at La Scala, Milan, in June 2005, and the youngest at the Salzburg Festival in 2006.
Recording & Production
This album is the fifteenth in a series of recordings by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in partnership with Linn Records, and the first conducted by Principal Conductor Robin Ticciati.
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