Symphonie Fantastique

Album by Hector Berlioz & New York Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein

Symphonie fantastique is a programme symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, composed and first performed in 1830. The work features vivid orchestration, dramatic contrasts and a programme narrative tracing an artist's obsessive passion, employing novel instrumental effects and expanded orchestral forces that marked a turning point in Romantic orchestral writing and in Berlioz's early career.

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  1. 1.
    Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14: I. Dreams, Passions
    12:33
  2. 2.
    Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14: II. A Ball
    6:09
  3. 3.
    Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14: III. Scene in the Meadows
    15:06
  4. 4.
    Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14: IV. March to the Scaffold
    4:30
  5. 5.
    Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14: V. Dream of the Witches' Sabbath
    9:26

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