Berlioz: Overtures

Hector Berlioz (Composer), Yoav Talmi (Conductor), San Diego Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: San Diego Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Yoav Talmi
• Composer: Hector Berlioz
• Audio CD (November 29, 1994)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B00000141R
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,646 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful find!, September 23, 2001

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richard mullany (waynesville, north carolina United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Berlioz: Overtures (Audio CD)

This is just the sort of collection I had been looking for and even though it lacks some that I'd hoped for I'm happy with it. I must offer my sympathy to the audience; the orchestra is defunct so I understand, and a fine group it was. Berlioz is not the easiest composer to negotiate in matters of tempi; this band romps through the "Overture to Bennevuto Cellini" with precision and dash. The brass sounds properly Berliozan as do the winds. Back in the fifties there was a Columbia release on the Epic Label of these overtures played by the City of Birmingham SO and this cd reminds me of that recording, taut and brilliant playing with "elan". Highly recommended.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprise! A Berlioz overture colleciton to rival Davis and Munch, October 7, 2005

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This review is from: Berlioz: Overtures (Audio CD)

Yoav Talmi? A now-defunct San diego Sym. that at the best of times was trying to keep afloat in a sinkhole of culture? But they pull it off. This CD surpasses Dutoit from Ontreal and the latter Colin Davis from Dresden in terms of exctiement and genuine Berlioz volatility. the sound is fine, the orchestra much better than Naxos's usual Eastern European state orchestras. Only the early Davis colleciton on Philips and the classic one under Munch on RCA is in the same league.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting homage to the defunct San Diego Symphony..., February 27, 2006

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vmzfla "vince819" (Orlando, Fl.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Berlioz: Overtures (Audio CD)

Israeli Cond. Yoav Talmi and the San Diego Sym. give us an electrified" swan song" to remember the financially strapped orchestra by. Standards in performance and engineering are higher than on most of the Naxos Eastern European projects. You get a generious 75mins. of seven Berlioz overtures. His genius
touched every aspect of the Romantic Era, through color and instumentation and the transfer of literature to music. The good program notes included will guide you through each. Don't pass this one over!