Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellinni Opera Orchestral & Concertos LSO Live

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellinni

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LS 0123

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellinni

Label Catalogue Number:
LSO0123

Running Time: 144:37

Release Date: August 2008
Originally recorded in 2008

Genre:
Opera
Orchestral & Concertos

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Berlioz’s flamboyant opera Benvenuto Cellini is inspired by the life of the legendary Florentine goldsmith and Renaissance figure. Its first performances in Paris during 1838-39 were disastrous as it proved too great a challenge for the musicians of the day. Yet even by Berlioz’s high standards it contains music of exceptional inventiveness and beauty.

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No conductor today excels Sir Colin Davis in Berlioz’s music and this performance of perhaps his most brilliant opera finds him in sparkling form. The American soprano Laura Claycomb is excellent in the coloratura role of Teresa, dominating the performance with her charm and vivaciousness

Sunday Telegraph - 27 April 2008

As with previous instalments of the LSO’s Berlioz cycle, this recording outshines Davis’s version of 40 years ago in sound quality and maturity of interpretation. Berlioz’s flamboyant portrait of the Renaissance goldsmith impresses with its sheer vigour and conviction, thanks to Davis’s inspiration of orchestra, chorus and a cast led by Gergory Kunde Laura Claycomb this is a bargain"
Financial Times (UK), 27 April 2008

Financial Times - 27 April 2008

Berlioz’s unconventional opera “Benvenuto Cellini” curiously mixes the heroic and the farcical. Still, the composer thought it one of his most original scores. Colin Davis is a renowned Berlioz interpreter, and this new recording, taken from live performances with the London Symphony, makes the strongest case for this fascinating work.

The New York Times

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Classic FM Magazine

Conductor and tenor are the joint heroes of this exhilarating release Davis remains the supreme Berliozian of our day, brilliantly evoking the mercurial wit of the comic repartee anyone who doesn’t own this fabulous score should snap it up"
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Sunday Times - 27 April 2008

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