The Hector Berlioz Website - Berlioz Discography

Introduction

This page is intended to provide a guide to recordings of Berlioz’s music on CD, DVD and film; the listing is not exhaustive and additions will be made from time to time. In using this list two points should be borne in mind. First, the question of classification: Berlioz’s major works create do not always fit easily into traditional categories. In this listing a limited number of broad headings (symphonies, orchestral works etc.) has been used; the placing of a work in one category rather than another is at times arbitrary and purely for convenience. Second, many of the recordings listed below have been issued more than once, with changing catalogue numbers (which may also vary in different countries). It seemed therefore best to organise the items in each category largely according to the date of the original recording, where known. The catalogue numbers given may not be universally valid, and not all issues listed may be currently available.

You will find the texts and libretti of the masses, operas, melodies and other vocal works in our Berlioz Libretti pages.

This page is also available in French.

Copyright notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site are covered by UK Law and International Law. All rights of publication or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are reserved. Their use without our explicit permission is illegal.

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our gratitude to our friend Gene Halaburt for his constructive comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this page, from which it has greatly benefited. We are also grateful to John Ahouse, Jean-Pierre Andrivet, Yoel L. Arbeitman, Martin Binks, Madame Françoise Courcel (Présidente de l’ Association "Les Amis d’Arthur [Oldham]", Peter Curbishley, Martha G Dibblee, Christopher Follett, David Gable, Mike Harkin, Alfred Hartoog, Andres Saenz Lara, Maurice Laurence, Jr., Eric Legault, Louie, Yoel L. Arbeitman, Claude Michel, James C Morris, Peter Polhemus, Jean-Pierre Prat, Pierre-René Serna, John C. Thomas, Michel Verjus, Martin Walker, Richard Wandel and John Wrzesien for their recommendations.

We are also most grateful to our friend Alan Underwood for his valuable contribution to the "DVD, Video, Film" section; to Madame Diana-Odile Lestage for sending us a list of films on Berlioz and his music in the "Musique filmée" collection of the Louvre Museum, and to Daniel Achache for his valuable contribution to the "Masses and other choral works" section (La Damnation of Faust).

Contents of this page:

Symphonies

Overtures and other orchestral/instrumental works

Masses and other choral works

Operas, melodies and other vocal works*

Arrangements

Compilations

DVDs, Videos, Films

Reviews of recordings of music by Berlioz

Last update: 1 May 2008

A red asterisk (*) in front of an item indicates an addition or change since the previous update.

The Hector Berlioz Website was created by Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin on 18 July 1997;
The Berlioz Discography page created on 24 May 2002, in both French and English versions. Both versions were completely reorganised on 1 June 2002 and 7 February 2003; substantial additions made since.

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