Myung-Whun Chung, Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Dutilleux: Métaboles (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 248 Mb | Total time: 67:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 878-2 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 248 Mb | Total time: 67:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 878-2 | Recorded: 1993
Not many versions of the Symphonie fantastique rival Myung-Whun Chung’s in conveying the nervously impulsive inspiration of a young composer, the hints of hysteria, the overtones of nightmare in Berlioz’s programme. He makes one register it afresh as genuinely fantastic. Some may well prefer the more direct, more solid qualities that you find in the new Mehta version, also well played, and recorded with satisfying weight, but the volatile element in this perennially modern piece is something which Chung brings out to a degree I have rarely known before, and that establishes his as a very individual, sharply characterized version with unusually strong claims.