Composer Fantastique From: The Washington Post | Date: March 19, 2000| Author: Sudip Bose | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

BERLIOZ

Volume One: The Making of an Artist

Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness

By David Cairns

Univ. of California

648 pp. 896 pp. $40 each

Reviewed by Sudip Bose

Perhaps no composer of genius has suffered more at the hands of nearsighted critics than Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). "Slapdash writing," "clumsy style," "chaotic methods of composition," "unrestrained excess," "extravagant lucubrations" -- these are the sorts of charges that have been...

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	Radio France orchestra almost fantastique. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) ; ... allowing his players to luxuriate along with the audience in the composer's delicate evocation of a childlike fantasy world. Rarely ... so exquisite. After intermission came Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Chung stressed the music's feverish, hallucinatory qualities ... Chicago Tribune Distributed by ...
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