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HECTOR BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (Angel/EMI). Lean, brisk and idiomatic: Roger Norrington leads the London Classical Players in Berlioz's virtuoso ear grabber...
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1 AND 6 (EMI). Roger Norrington and the London Classical Players re-create on original instruments the lusty sounds of Beethoven's time...
...Norrington is just as effective with the public, addressing the festival audience with the easy urbanity of a BBC talk-show host. At an open rehearsal, he gave the downbeat for the combative fugue that opens Romeo, then stopped after a few minutes to quip, "It's like riding the foot-plate of a steam - locomotive...
...newfound status has widened his scope. This year Norrington will lead the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood and conduct the Messiah in San Francisco; his North American dates are booked through 1990. Next year's "Experience" subject is still under discussion, but Schumann is a likely candidate. It is an apt choice: conventional widsom says that Schumann was an inept orchestrator whose four symphonies are flawed by treacly instrumental writing. For Norrington, though, such wisdom is both hidebound and earthbound. "Take nothing for granted," he says. "That's my motto over the door." Perhaps Schumann too can soar...
...London, Conductor Roger Norrington lets Berlioz be Berlioz with performances of two masterworks on original instruments...