NI 5175
Total Playing Time 57.16
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Berlioz
Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale
Leeds Festival Chorus
The Wallace Collection
John Wallace, conductor
"The Wallace Collection - a starry assembly of leading London brass and woodwind players - fields for the Berlioz a team of 70 strong, whose intonation and precision are immaculate and who are capable of delicacy as well as of massive power ... anyone whose spine fails to tingle at the huge chords at the end of the relentless funeral march is probably clinically dead. Dudley Bright plays the trombone solo of the funeral oration (salvaged from Les francs-juges) with the utmost sensitivity and beauty of tone."
Lionel Salter, Gramophone
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