Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique [UK Import]

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Dimensions du colis ‏ : ‎ 14,1 x 12,6 x 1,4 cm; 80 grammes
Format ‏ : ‎ Importé
Studio  ‏ : ‎ HMV Classics
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001CZOWPQ
Prix : 9,98 €
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Reviewer: Knoploch Michel
Rating: 5,0 sur 5 étoiles
Title: disque exceptionnel
Review: Revoici en multicanal cette merveilleuse interpretation flamboyante de cette compilation autour d’Hector Berlioz avec ce génial maestro qu’est Paul Paray. Déchiffrage vivant, pas une note pas un silence pas une altération n’est laissée au hasard. Quelle prise de son ! Paul Paray laisse son cher Symphonique de Détroit s’exprimer librement et fait mouche à tous les coups. Tout amoureux de ce grand compositeur et de ces interprètes doit impérativement posséder ce CD avec les versions de Charles Munch (1954 et 1962). Magistral !
Reviewer: ERIC DUFOUR
Rating: 4,0 sur 5 étoiles
Title: Très bon cd pour les mélomanes
Review: Très bon cd avec une belle prise de son pour un prix tout à fait abordable. … Parfait pour les mélomanes
Reviewer: NMN le discophage
Rating: 5,0 sur 5 étoiles
Title: MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE COFFRET 1 CD 15
Review: Difficile de choisir une « Fantastique » parmi les très – trop – nombreuses versions existantes. Quelle place aura alors celle de Paul Paray, à la discographie malingre, sur un label ignoré du « grand public » avec l’orchestre de Detroit et datant de 1959 ? Une des premières, bien sûr ! Audiophiles, devant vos enceintes ! Mélomanes musiciens, à vos partitions ! Amateurs à vos remises en question ! Tempi relevés, voire ultra rapides par moments, absence de pathos, vigueur rythmique, la fantastique de Paray abat les préjugés, lessive les oreilles, surprend, choque à chaque détour de mesure, à chaque combinaison de timbre. Ici, pas de métaphysique, pas de temps pour l’extase romantique, le rubato vibrant, le sentiment contemplatif, la valse salonarde, la marche au supplice et le sabbat descriptifs : ce qu’on perd en « expression » on le gagne en une modernité presque prémonitoire par rapport aux dernières versions revisitées par nos modernes (Boulez, Minkowski ou Norrington) et surtout plus convaincant. Le complément de programme est aussi au top, avec une marche hongroise sans vulgarité (merci monsieur Paray), une ouverture du Carnaval Romain ébouriffante. Vous n’y apprendrez pas votre Fantastique, vous la redécouvrirez. Prise de son superlative.
Reviewer: jefco
Rating: 5,0 sur 5 étoiles
Title: épatant
Review: Une prise de son exceptionnelle, un relief hallucinant, une dynamique propre au SACD et une interprétation inspirée. Bravo! Moins de louanges par contre pour la firme DECCA MERCURY qui est incapable de sortir de nouveaux SACD dans cette collection depuis 2005!!!
Reviewer: Peter Prainito
Rating: 5,0 sur 5 étoiles
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Review: I happen to own at least 15 recordings of Berlioz’ « Symphonie Fantastique » and most are very good to excellent (the Norrington, Gardiner, and Davis versions are especially fine). However, the Paul Paray/Detroit Symphony version on Mercury Living Presence, newly released as a SACD, is simply unsurpassed. The excitement that this ensemble produces is beyond what mere words can describe. The music ignites sparks. Every movement is a joy, played with precision and passion. One truly hears and feels the unbalanced nature of the artist that Berlioz is portraying in his five movement masterpiece, which was way ahead of it’s time when written. Even today it sounds modern and fresh. I especially like the second movement portraying a Ball, fourth movement portraying a March to the Scaffold, and the final movement portraying a Witches Sabbath (you’ll never hear the E-Flat clarinet entry solo played any better than here.) But then again, the entire symphony is wonderful. With the Hungarian March, Trojan March, Corsair and Roman Carnival overtures included on the SACD, this is a superb value. If I could only own one recording of the Symphonie Fantastique, this would be the one.
Reviewer: John A. Kontogianis
Rating: 5,0 sur 5 étoiles
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Review: Apollo 16’s Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly played Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique as he orbited along while the rest of the crew was romping on the lunar surface.
Reviewer: Andre Gauthier
Rating: 3,0 sur 5 étoiles
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Review: Starting with technical issues there is a lot of hiss on the recording, especially with headphones. (I use Sennheiser SD600s at moderate volume.) On my main playback system, which has an extremely wide dynamic range, this recording sounds as though it had been limited. The average volume of the CD is VERY loud compared to all my other versions – even pirate mono versions. That’s the engineering not the orchestra. There is a bad splice in the first movement with a note missing in a fast violin passage. (Maybe it’s a tape dropout.) The bass sounds smudged as is often the case when recording at 30 ips, but then if they used that speed, why the hiss? One is supposed to cancel out the other. I have my doubts about the tape used to make this CD. Simply put, it sounds like a second generation pressing master. Its that or the original recording equipment was very noisy. It makes for a lot of slurred passages. I’m also very curious about the reverberation time that rings out at the end of the last movement. Is that Dallas high school really that live?? If so it hinders rather than helps the whole affair. If not, then who ever added the reverb added too much. And for everyone comparing this to an LP, remember, you’re listening to at least a second generation copy. No LPs were ever made en masse from the original recording date tapes.Paray’s conducting is quite interesting, but certainly far from unusual. The orchestra can’t totally give him what he’s asking for either, maybe that’s the trouble. The ability to play detache and as an ensemble at the same time is not the Detroit symphony’s forte here. They do have some beautiful moments. But I’ll go back as far as 1951 to Decca’s Van Beinum Concertgebouw FFRR tape as a suggestion for how a super fast version of the last movement is supposed to sound – together for one thing! Markevich, with second rank orchestras, has several recordings of this piece that are far clearer and full of fire than this one, yet are just as old. Some are older. If you must have the Mercury recording, well, here it is, otherwise I’d buy several other versions well before this one. Munch on RCA from 62 is marvelous and is taken from the original tapes. If I could have only one (after much thought) it would be Gardiner and his amazing recreation of the world premiere. Yes it’s a dry acoustic and the instruments are old. Still, the performance is so full of life thoughout, and this is how Berlioz must have heard it on that famous first evening.Oh yes, another reviewer compares Paray and Toscanini in this performance. In the Italian Maestro’s entire career Toscanini thought so much of the Symphonie Fantastique that he only played the 4th and 5th movements, and those quite rarely, in concert; he never recorded a note of the piece. (See Harvey Sachs « Toscanini ».)
Reviewer: M. H. Miller
Rating: 5,0 sur 5 étoiles
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Review: The Symphonie on this CD is the performance given at the Proms in 1971, played by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. The Benvenuto Cellini is conducted by Lawrence Foster.The Penguin Guide gives this performance 4 stars and a key, richly deserved. As long as you can put up with the audience’s coughing in the quiet opening section, this CD is wholly recommendable.
Reviewer: Samuel D. Thomas
Rating: 4,0 sur 5 étoiles
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Review: The Berlioz « Symphonie Fantastique » is one of my favorite pieces. The Chesky recording is excellent and now, Mercury has reworked this very excellent performance. I am very pleased to add this performance to my collection.

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