
Berlioz composed his revolutionary masterpiece Symphonie fantastique a mere three years after his hero Beethoven’s death. The ultimate musical statement of the Romantic Movement, it describes a series of increasingly lurid and violent hallucinatory visions experienced by the artist under the influence of opium. Before this Beethoven’s Second Symphony, a sunny and good-humoured, with a finale plainly looking backwards in style to Bach. Read player tour blog










