Berlioz: Harold En Italie Les Nuit D'ete

Conductors:	François-Xavier Roth
Title:	Berlioz: Harold En Italie Les Nuit D'ete
Release Date:	1/18/2019
Label:	Harmonia Mundi FR.
Product Type:	CD
Catalog #:	902634
UPC:	3149020935743
Item #:	2123891X

Berlioz: Harold en Italie Les Nuit D'ete - A new aesthetic calls for new forms: such is the challenge the composer set for himself in the two works presented here. In Les Nuits d'été, Berlioz pioneered - well before Mahler and Ravel - the song cycle for voice and orchestra. In Harold in Italy, scored for large orchestra and solo viola, he experimented with the symphonic genre. These period-instrument performances by Francois-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles feature violist Tabea Zimmermann and vocalist Stéphane Degout, heard here in the composer's own version of Les Nuits d'été for baritone.