Recognition by academic and other establishments

Librarians’ Internet Index – Websites you can trust has listed our site since March 2003 as the only entry under Berlioz.

Our site has been listed on the BBC website data base as their recommended site on Berlioz, described as follows: 

BBC recommends: Hector Berlioz
Scholarly site including biographical material, news, CD releases and reviews, plus a wealth of illustrations and photographs, including a picture of the merchant ship [Le Berlioz]."
www.hberlioz.com

A number of other educational websites, and lecturers and professors at various universities and colleges, have informed us that our site is recommended by them as an educational resource. 

On 11 December 2003 our site was chosen as the "Site of the Day" on Site-du-Jour website, which also included the following short announcement, now in their archives section:

Hector Berlioz (UK) – 12/11/2003
Born on 11 December 1803 at La Côte-Saint-André in Isère (France), a year after Victor Hugo, and four years after Delacroix, deeply influenced by Shakespeare, Hector Berlioz is now recognised as the leading figure of romantic music. In his lifetime he nevertheless had more detractors than followers in France. And even now, even though everybody knows his celebrated Symphonie Fantastique or his Requiem, the majority of his works ultimately remain little known. This site, created by two British academics, pays homage to him and invites us to learn more about this 19^th century genius, his life, his music and his work.

A very rich site.

The New York based Opera News, in an article on Berlioz in the December 2003 issue, describes our site as "The granddaddy of all Berlioz websites, ... a staggeringly comprehensive site ...". You will find an extract of the article here. 

We received, on 8 May 2003, the following message of goodwill from Sir Colin Davis, Berlioz’s foremost champion:

‘I wish Hector could appreciate what you’re up to on his behalf. 
 I think the website should be headed "Hector Berlioz, genius!"’

Our site was the subject of a favourable article in the September 2002 issue of Le Monde de la Musique, which is published in France. You will find an image of the article here (please note that some details in the article are inaccurate).

The programme booklets accompanying the London Symphony Orchestra’s bicentenary concerts conducted by Sir Colin Davis (February 2003) describe our site as a "massive resource" and recommend the audience to visit it for information on Berlioz. In addition, the January-April 2003 issue of Living Magazine, the LSO’s in-depth concert guide, recommends the readers to surf this "comprehensive Berlioz web resource". 

On 19 February 2003 France-Musiques’ morning programme "Les Chants de l’Aube" included a section entitled "Surf Musiques", presented by Philippe Kalman. Our site and its contents were profiled in this section as the leading Berlioz site on the Internet. 

Our site was selected as a pedagogical Internet resource by two sites which appear no longer to be available on the original URL: ‘Visalis école’, an "Internet Environment" aimed at school pupils, their teachers and parents; an educational Internet service called WebPath Express, which helps students find online resources for homework assignments, reports and other areas of research.

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