Another facet of Berlioz! We may find it hard to imagine that the composer of such epics as Les Troyens started out as a guitarist... and that his first compositional experience was to transcribe

songs, inherited from the Ancien Regime, for voice and guitar.

The particular instrument that was given to Berlioz by Paganini survives to this day; here it brings us closer to the repertoire suitable for a musicale hosted by Berlioz: airs for voice and guitar, but

also art songs (a genre which the composer pioneered), along with chamber music and pieces for solo piano. Another way of listening to Berlioz!

Stephanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Thibaut Roussel (guitar), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano)

Berlioz: Bocage que l’aurore
Berlioz: Gulnare ou L’esclave persanne: Rien, tendre amour, ne resite a tes armes
Berlioz: L’Idee fixe, LW. A16b
Berlioz: L’Opera comique: Ah ! Pour l’amant le plus discret
Berlioz: La captive
Berlioz: Le Jeune Patre Breton, Op. 13 No. 4
Berlioz: Le Sentiment d’amour
Berlioz: Neuf melodies irlandaises, Op. 2, H. 38 Elegie en prose
Berlioz: Nina ou La Folle par amour: Romance de Nina: “Quand le bien-aime reviendra”
Berlioz: Philippe et Georgette: O ! Ma Georgette
Berlioz: Quatrieme Rondo
Berlioz: Que d’etablissement
Berlioz: Six Melodies nocturnes originales: Le Desir. Variation
Berlioz: Six Melodies nocturnes originales: VI. Les Regrets
Berlioz: Viens, aurore
Berlioz: Vous qui loin d’une amante
Liszt: Danse des Sylphes de La damnation de Faust de Hector Berlioz, S475
Liszt: Marche des pelerins de la symphonie Harold en Italie de Berlioz, S473
Martini, J P: Plaisir d'amour