麻豆社

Douglas Boyd conducts the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra in music by Weber and Berlioz. Plus choral works by Berlioz from the 麻豆社 Symphony Chorus. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is the stuff of nightmares, obsessions, and dreams, music that illustrates a fearful story and at the same time is full of the most innovative and startling orchestral sounds. Coupled with the Symphony is the Frenchman at his most delicate in one of the earliest orchestral song cycles Les nuits d'茅t茅 (The Nights of Summer). Today it is served with its songs shared between four fine singers of French song - which is how it was originally premiered. Plus Carl Maria von Weber's L鈥檌nvitation 脿 la valse as orchestrated by Berlioz the master orchestrator - who was author of a seminal orchestration treatise. In the interval the 麻豆社 Symphony Chorus performs some of Berlioz's many sacred works.

Live from Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden.

Presented by Georgia Mann

WEBER (orch BERLIOZ): L鈥檌nvitation 脿 la valse
BERLIOZ: Les nuits d'茅t茅*

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8pm
INTERVAL Live from 麻豆社 Studios Maida Vale.

Presented by Natasha Riordan

Berlioz: Hymne pour la consecration du nouveau Tabernacle
Berlioz: Chant des cherubins (arrangement of Bortnyansky)
Berlioz: Tantum ergo
Berlioz: Veni Creator

麻豆社 Symphony Chorus
Richard Pearce (organ)
Neil Ferris (conductor)

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BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique Op.14 52'

Hanna Hipp (Mezzo-soprano)*
Jess Dandy (Contralto)*
James Way (Tenor)*
James Newby (Baritone)*
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Douglas Boyd (Conductor)

Part of the Radio 3 celebration
Berlioz - The Ultimate Romantic