Artist: Leonard Slatkin, Orchestre National de Lyon
Album: Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:58:15
Total Tracks: 20
Total Size: 2,08 GB

Tracklist:

1. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 1a, Introduction (04:49)
2. Marion Lebegue – No. 1b, D’anciennes haines endormies (05:01)
3. Marion Lebegue – No. 1c, Premiers transports que nul n’oublie! (06:30)
4. Julien Behr – No. 1d, Bientôt de Roméo la pâle rêverie (00:26)
5. Julien Behr – No. 1e, Mab! La messagère fluette et légère (02:48)
6. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 2a, Roméo seul (07:28)
7. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 2b, Fête (05:47)
8. Spirito – No. 3a, Ohé, Capulets! (02:59)
9. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 3b, Scène d’amour (16:33)
10. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 4, La Reine Mab, ou la Fée des Songes (08:10)
1. Spirito – No. 5, Jetez des fleurs pour la vierge expirée! (08:41)
2. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 6a, Roméo au tombeau des Capulets (01:24)
3. Orchestre National De Lyon – No. 6b, Invocation (06:33)
4. Spirito – No. 7a, Quoi! Roméo de retour! (01:24)
5. Frédéric Caton – No. 7b, Je vais dévoiler le mystère! (02:58)
6. Frédéric Caton – No. 7c, Pauvres enfants que je pleure (04:35)
7. Frédéric Caton – No. 7d,Mais notre sang rougit leur glaive (04:10)
8. Frédéric Caton – No. 7e, Jurez donc par l’auguste symbole (04:36)
9. Orchestre National De Lyon – Overture (08:11)
10. Orchestre National De Lyon – Overture (15:12)

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Of all Berlioz’s Shakespeare-inspired works, Roméo et Juliette is unquestionably his masterpiece. It is also cast in an innovative new form, a kind of ‘super-symphony’ that incorporates elements of symphony, opera and oratorio. Berlioz composed no singing roles for the central characters, but allowed others to comment or narrate, giving latitude to incarnate the lovers in a musical language of extraordinary delicacy and passion. The vivid Ball Scene and Romeo at the Capulet tomb are intensely dramatic but the heart of the work is the Love Scene, a long symphonic poem which Richard Wagner called ‘the melody of the 19th century’.