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Hector BerliozRomanticism at its Richest
While the classical music world has been awash in 200th birthday concerts for composer Hector Berlioz this year, the main event in fact takes place on December 11th. Kicking off the festivities this week is a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring the celebrated mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore. She joins host John Schaefer today to shed light on why Berlioz's music has been such a revelation for many music lovers. Another Romantic composer who gets the full Soundcheck scrutiny today is Richard Strauss, as actor Michael York and pianist John Bell Young stop by to perform selections from his "Enoch Arden," a melodrama for narrator and piano set to the poem of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. And music writer Ben Finane drops by to review a new CD of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
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