The title alone of Hector Berlioz’s most famous orchestral work is enough to send a frisson of excitement down the spine. Add to that evocative title the composer's own decadent narrative of an ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...

The other day, Arkansas Symphony guest conductor Kazem Abdullah described Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" as "a great barn-burner to end the season with." Well, the orchestra created quite a ...

While the final movement of Hector Berlioz’s monumental “Symphonie Fantastique” sounds like something that ought to be played on Halloween, with its hallucinogenic imagery of death, witches, monsters ...