Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette

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There is much to admire: buoyant energy, sparkling lightness (in the Queen Mab Scherzo), mostly well-balanced textures and acceptable if not quite native French. Yet after one hearing I felt... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 2193600742
Label: SFS Media
Length: 96 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Choral

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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17

Work length1:36:46

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Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Nicholas Phan (tenor)
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Michael Tilson Thomas

Introduction and Prologue

Track length19:46

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Romeo Alone - Festivity at the Capulets'

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The Capulets' Garden - Love Scene

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Scherzo - Queen Mab

Track length8:38

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Second Prologue - Juliet's Funeral Cortege

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Rome in the Tomb of the Capulets

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Finale - Brawl between the Capulets and the Montagues -

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Finale - Friar Laurence's Recitative and Aria -

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Finale - Oath of Reconciliation

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Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony bring unsurpassed storytelling and musicality to their latest recording on the Grammy Award-winning SFS Media label: Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette. With a narrative that Berlioz deemed “too beautiful, too musical” to not be performed, this impassioned orchestral scoring of love and despair is further enriched by the vocals of Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, Luca Pisaroni, and the SFS Chorus. Available in studio master-quality on two-disc SACD and for digital download and streaming.

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March 2019

There is much to admire: buoyant energy, sparkling lightness (in the Queen Mab Scherzo), mostly well-balanced textures and acceptable if not quite native French. Yet after one hearing I felt something was missing…I pinned it down to ‘intimacy’.

February 2019

Tilson Thomas has long been a committed explorer of the Romantic highways. His San Francisco forces provide a typically well-prepared and fluent account of Berlioz’s score, slightly (deliberately?) on the cool side, which seems wholly in keeping with the work’s intentionally distanced take on the story. The choral singing is well-rounded, just lacking the last degree of familiarity and French fizz that European choruses can bring.

Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette

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