Harold in Italy

Album by Hector Berlioz & Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Munch & William Primrose

Harold in Italy is a symphony with solo viola by the French composer Hector Berlioz, composed in 1834. The work blends expressive solo viola passages with expansive orchestral writing in the Romantic programme-music tradition, evoking the melancholy of a travelling protagonist and marking an important development in Berlioz's career and 19th-century French orchestral practice.
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  1. 1.
    Harold in Italy, op. 16: Harold in the Mountains
    12:12
  2. 2.
    Harold in Italy, op. 16: March of the Pilgrims
    6:46
  3. 3.
    Harold in Italy, op. 16: Serenade of an Abruzzi Mountaineer to His Sweetheart
    6:34
  4. 4.
    Harold in Italy, op. 16: Orgy of the Brigands
    12:38

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