Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Symphonie fantastique
Rákóczi March (from La Damnation de Faust)
Hansjörg Albrecht, Organ
(Recorded at the Lucerne Cultural and Congress Centre,
Switzerland)
Hansjörg Albrecht has selected the organ version of
the Rákóczi March as the opening of his new SACD
in our Organ Transcription Series. More or less as
an overture, he makes a virtuoso piece out of it – a
veritable display of fireworks in the style of Vladimir
Horowitz and Franz Liszt (who wrote the piano transcription
of the Symphonie fantastique). Together with
the Symphonie fantastique, the series on SACD with
Berlioz is now complete.