That was the case with Berlioz’s booming symphony, but also with a deeply involving interpretation of the First Violin ...

The Verdi Chorus will kick off its 42nd season with "Faust – Berlioz, Gounod and Boito," featuring operatic sequences from three renowned composers' interpretations of Goethe's legendary tale.

Listeners can still marvel at the massive spectacle of instruments and the music’s storyline that evolves into crazed, ...

New York — At the United Nations last week, the Americans and the French bickered over the situation in Iraq, but across town, a lot of American music fans couldn’t get enough of France’s most ...

He may not have the title role in Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust," but it's awfully hard to keep Mephistopheles -- that suave, ironical seducer -- from shamelessly stealing the spotlight. And when the ...

Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique is truly fantastic, says Jane Jones. I think this really is a fantastic symphony – not only in name. This was the first of four symphonies that Berlioz ...

THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz 1 is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As a ...

Fans of Hector Berlioz — and record companies, it appears — need no excuse to celebrate the music of the pioneering French composer and quick-witted music critic. The sesquicentennial of Berlioz's ...

Berlioz’s exuberant seascape dates from the early autumn of 1844. In its original form it was composed in Nice, where Berlioz had gone for a holiday after an exhausting summer organising and ...

It took a long time for the great French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz to win his place among the immortals. When he died in 1869 he was a broken and embittered man, worn out from decades of ...