Harold en Italie

Album by Hector Berlioz & Michel Plasson & Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse & Gérard Caussé

Harold en Italie is a symphonic work for solo viola and orchestra by French composer Hector Berlioz, composed in 1834. The four-movement piece blends programme elements and Romantic orchestration, featuring an extended solo viola line woven into vivid orchestral colour and exploring lyrical, dramatic and pastoral moods, marking a development in Berlioz's approach to programme symphonies and orchestral colour.

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  1. 1.
    Harold en Italie
    40:13
  2. 2.
    Benvenuto Cellini op. 23 : Ouverture
    10:24
  3. 3.
    Waverley op. 1 : Grande Ouverture
    9:45
  4. 4.
    Le Corsaire : Ouverture
    8:27

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