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John Eliot Gardiner

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[Gardiners Fated Masterpiece, Performed on Period Instruments at the Palace of Versailles, a Place Close to the Composers Heart!]Gardiner, a period-instrument conductor who has long devoted his energy to restoring Berliozs reputation, returns to the Palace of Versailles. With a musicality that grows ever deeper and more radiant with agea quality he has consistently demonstrated in his successful collaborations with the London Symphony Orchestra accompanied by his own period instrument ensemble, the Orchestre Rvolutionnaire et Romantiquewhich holds an overwhelming advantage in period interpretations of 19th-century worksto record a live performance of this fated opera with the sound of the era as envisioned by the composer. Given that complete recordings of this work are rare even when performed on modern instruments, it is exceptionally valuable to have this production captured on video