Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Lili Boulanger: D'un soir triste

Featuring

Nicolò Umberto Foron
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Hector Berlioz
Lili Boulanger

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Recording & Production

The conductor, Nicolò Foron, was the same age as Berlioz when he wrote the Symphonie fantastique (twenty-six) at the time of this recording.

Performer Biography

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) received a Grammy Award in 2011 for the world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho's opera L'amour de loin.

Performer Biography

Nicolò Foron, the conductor, won the prestigious 'Donatella Flick' Conducting Competition in March 2023, a performance that led to him winning the first prize.

Album & Artwork

The album concept is a dialogue across a century between two young composers, Berlioz and Boulanger, grappling with inspiration under different historical and emotional circumstances.

Compositional Technique

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique features unusual orchestration, including four bassoons playing in unison and the use of two ophicleides, an instrument invented just thirteen years before the premiere.

Composer Biography

Lili Boulanger, a French composer, was the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome composition prize in 1913 at the age of nineteen.

Composition History

Both Lili Boulanger and Hector Berlioz, the composers on this album, won the Prix de Rome, a prestigious French composition prize, though Berlioz won it 83 years earlier than Boulanger.