Yoav Talmi - Overtures - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Nigun Celebration of Jewish Music / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/23/2004

In the history of recording, there have been literally dozens and dozens of recordings of Hector Berlioz's monstrous masterpiece InchSymphonie FantastiqueInch, a work that is arguably the first musical masterpiece of terror. Judging by the performance given here on Naxos by Yoav Talmi and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, plenty! With the recording quality as high as it is, and the recording itself very well priced, this version of Berlioz's nightmarish masterpiece has much to show, including the piece de resistance, the InchWitches SabbathInch in the fifth movement, with the use of the ancient chant InchDies IraeInch ringing out in the trombones (a chant that would find it's way into the music of such chilling movies as A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Poltergeist).

Yoav Talmi - Romeo Et Juiette [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/22/1995