His passion-propelled Symphonie Fantastique follows the love-sick hero’s drug-induced visions to a glittering ball, the march to the scaffold and a demonic Witches’ Sabbath with the Dies irae ...

Symphonie Fantastique was premiered in 1830 during one of Berlioz’s periods of intense, pre-nuptial infatuation with Harriet. It’s really one long, musical expression of his passion, embodied in the ...

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Colin Davis When you see the name Colin Davis on a CD of Berlioz’s music you can be assured of supreme musicianship. He is a true champion of the ...

Although Berlioz's five movements ("Reveries, Passions," "A Ball," "Scene in the Country," "March to the Scaffold," and "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath") are listed in the program, there is no sense ...

Witches take over the Houston Symphony this weekend. Classical fans can guess what that means: the return of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," a sound spectacular, and no more so than in ...

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. Sean Shibe, electric guitar ... a march to the scaffold and a witches’ sabbath, all set to the obsessive pulse of unrequited love.

While the final movement of Hector Berlioz’s monumental “Symphonie Fantastique” sounds like something that ought to be played on Halloween, with its hallucinogenic imagery of death, witches ...

Western Piedmont Symphony will perform MASTERWORKS: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE featuring works by Berlioz, Bruch, and Smyth on Thursday, March 7, at 7:30 PM at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of ...

The other day, Arkansas Symphony guest conductor Kazem Abdullah described Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" as "a great barn-burner to end the season with." ...

The CPO concert last weekend was billed as “Symphonie fantastique” and, under guest conductor Kensho Watanabe, making his debut with the orchestra, the performance of Berlioz’s most famous ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile Symphony Orchestra will bring its season to a close with ‘Symphonie Fantastique’. “Our season finale highlights three masterful French composers,” MSO ...

Inbal Segev joins the Hartford Symphony for an astounding performance of Anna Clyne's "Dance," part of a dreamy program that also includes Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" and two Scott Joplin rags.