Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique – Varese: Ionisation (Mariss Jansons) (2 Hybrid SACD, Br-Klassik)

Three sound visionaries on one CD: Mariss Jansons interprets Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique and Ionisation by Edgard Varèse. After the Beethoven box with its juxtaposition of classical and contemporary works, this CD with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its former conductor, who died in 2019, brings together music from different eras: Mariss Jansons, chief conductor of the BR Symphony Orchestra until his death, feels in follows the symphony fantastique romantic dream worlds and, in Ionisation by Edgard Varèse, turns complex structures into an event that can be experienced directly by the senses. Both works form important starting points for the dawn of a new musical age.