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| | Sound Recordings Review--Berlioz: Lelio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The sleeve of this latest record in Sir Colin Davis's Berlioz cycle from Philips announces the contents as two works, Lelio and Tristia, but really it is a collection of separate pieces which were for various reasons gathered together under these two headings. |
 | | Lelio was, of course, the sequel to the Symphonie fantastique; there is a case, especially on records, for having the pieces without the linking narrative, always hard to bring off even in concert. |
 | | Tristia, or "sad things", was the title Berlioz gave to the Meditation religieuse and La mort d'Ophelie when he published them in 1849; the second publication in 1851 added the Funeral March for the last scene of Hamlet. |
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