These are among the treasures in this new collection, along with a Ballet of the Shades for voices and piano that could be an outtake from the spooks’ celebrations in the Fantastique, and an exquisite setting of a Victor Hugo poem — “Sara at Her Bath” — that shocked Leipzig audiences in 1834. A couple of pompous patriotic pieces — one a memorial to Napoleon, the other to celebrate the opening of France’s first railway line — call forth a more workaday aspect of Berlioz’s writing, the work of a man who did not always eat as well as he wished. To the well-planned anniversary celebrations hereabouts of this hard-to-define French genius, such a marvelous disc release is a valuable adjunct; it spreads, far wider than we might have previously realized, our estimate of the breadth of his vision.
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