Berlioz/ Toronto Mendelssohn Choir/ Davis - Symphonie Fantastique AEC Music living at the time of

living at the time of Galileo

Piazzolla told the BBC: Around 1955 in Argentina

hauntingly beautiful music with enormous charm

Loss and hope

including it's title track in homage to Thad Jones

Berlioz/ Toronto Mendelssohn Choir/ Davis - Symphonie Fantastique AEC Music living at the time ofThe Fantaisie sur la Tempete de Shakespeare was composed shortly after Berlioz had won the coveted Prix de Rome (at the fourth attempt) with his cantata Sardanapale, and was originally conceived as a concert overture, with chorus. After various reworkings of the material, the four movement Fantaisie, as recorded here, became the finale of Berlioz's 'monodrama' Lelio a juxtaposition of existing material interlinked with dramatic monologues recited by