Symphonie fantastique / Carnaval romain

This album is a recording of orchestral works by French composer Hector Berlioz, pairing a large-scale programme symphony composed in 1830 with a later orchestral showpiece from 1844. The music exemplifies Romantic-era orchestration and programme music, employing expanded forces, dramatic thematic narrative and vivid instrumental colour, and it occupies a significant position in Berlioz's output and in nineteenth-century orchestral practice.