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Symphonie Fantastique

Composer: Hector Berlioz
Performers: 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Thierry Fischer
Recording date: 20 July 2007
Date of broadcast: 20 July 2007

The Symphonie Fantastique developed from Berlioz鈥檚 obsession with British actress Harriet Smithson. Filled with romantic visions from opium use, Berlioz鈥檚 obsession appears as an id茅e fixie (literally fixed idea) throughout, at first comforting and loving but later mocking and tormenting him to death.

Composer: Hector Berlioz
Performers: 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Thierry Fischer
Recording date: 20 July 2007
Date of broadcast: 20 July 2007

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