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Berlioz Odyssey
The Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Building A Library, November 2025, Recommended Recording (Harold en Italie)
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering...
Berlioz Odyssey
The Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
-
Building A Library, November 2025, Recommended Recording (Harold en Italie)
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering...
About
Colin Davis was internationally recognised as the foremost Berlioz interpreter of his time, and the recordings he made with the London Symphony Orchestra stand as some of the greatest accounts of the composer’s work ever recorded.
This 16 disc box set brings together all of Davis’ iconic Berlioz recordings made for LSO Live, from celebrated interpretations of popular orchestral works to landmark opera recordings, including the double Grammy Award-winning Les Troyens.
Contents and tracklist
- Andrew Greenan, Michelle DeYoung, Kenneth Tarver, Petra Lang, Mark Stone, Sara Mingardo, Toby Spence, Ben Heppner, Bulent Bezduz, Orlin Anastassov, Peter Mattei, Leigh Melrose, Roderick Earle, Isabelle Cals, Stephen Milling, Alan Ewing, Tigran Martirossian
- London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Colin Davis
- Tebea Zimmermann (soloist)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Colin Davis
- Darren Jeffery, Laura Claycomb, Andrew Kennedy, Peter Coleman-Wright, Andrew Foster-Williams, Jacques Imbrailo, Alasdair Elliott, Gregory Kunde, Isabelle Cals, John Relyea
- London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
- Sir Colin Davis
- Matthew Rose, Yann Beuron, Peter Rose, William Dazeley, Karen Cargill
- London Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae
- Sir Colin Davis
- Colin Lee
- Choir of Eltham College, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
- Sir Colin Davis
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Best Collection
April 2019
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering recording Davis made 30 years earlier, and The Damnation of Faust is similarly thrilling…David Cairns’s notes for the music are sometimes as revelatory as the performances.
Classical Music March 2019
[Symphonie Fantastique] This 2000 performance glows, achieving perfect balance between the lyric and the grotesque. The 2003 Harold en Italie, featuring a strong and eloquent Tabea Zimmermann, is more colourful even than with Imai in 1975. [Roméo et Juliette] The chorus excels, subtly in Juliette’s funeral procession and gloriously in the finale. [Faust] one of the finest performances ever recorded, including Davis’s 1973 account. The two great choral masterpieces of the Te Deum and the Grande Messe emerge as magnificent sonic experiences, the LSO brass on fire; they also offer deeply spiritual messages.