Berlioz Archives - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir https://www.tmchoir.org/tag/berlioz/ Canada’s Choir for 130 Years Mon, 31 May 2021 00:47:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 TSO Lets Berlioz Do The Talking In Season Opener https://www.tmchoir.org/tso-lets-berlioz-do-the-talking-in-season-opener/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:06:57 +0000 https://www.tmchoir.org/?p=3220 Paul Robinson, ludwig van Toronto. Then came a rarity: an excerpt from Berlioz’ Lélio, ou Le retour a la vie (The Return to Life), a sequel to the Symphonie fantastique. Lélio is a mishmash of music and declamation and not among the composer’s masterpieces. Sir Andrew chose to give us just one musical excerpt, a Fantasy on Shakespeare’s The Tempest for chorus and orchestra. As usual with Berlioz’s orchestral music, the instrumentation was clever and original. But even with an impressive Toronto Mendelssohn Choir on hand, this brief excerpt seemed too long for the quality of its inspiration.

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