The overtures of Hector Berlioz are in a class of their own, alternately zippy and jittery, redolent with nervous energy and languid, even meditative, this last quality being a particularly important influence on Richard Wagner. Nonetheless, outside of the atypically gleeful Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9, most of Berlioz's overtures are relatively little known and are only seldom recorded as a unit. Sir Colin Davis is an old hand with Berlioz, having recorded the Frenchman's entire orchestral output for Philips. Berlioz: ...
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The overtures of Hector Berlioz are in a class of their own, alternately zippy and jittery, redolent with nervous energy and languid, even meditative, this last quality being a particularly important influence on Richard Wagner. Nonetheless, outside of the atypically gleeful Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9, most of Berlioz's overtures are relatively little known and are only seldom recorded as a unit. Sir Colin Davis is an old hand with Berlioz, having recorded the Frenchman's entire orchestral output for Philips. Berlioz: Overtures was recorded during a brief spell that Davis spent recording for RCA.Davis certainly knows his Berlioz -- he never allows the Staatskapelle Dresden to coast through the slower, easier sections of these pieces, precisely as any semi-somnambulant orchestra is not going to be on the ball enough to get the quick stuff right. Nor does Davis seek to soften the focus of Berlioz's more bizarre orchestral ideas. His sense of discipline and deep knowledge of this music results in some...
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