Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ

Robin Ticciati and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra are joined by a sterling cast of soloists including Stephan Loges (winner of the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition), Veronique Gens (whose recording of Berlioz' Les nuits d'été was named Gramophone ‘Editor's Choice'), Yann Beuron (unanimously awarded first prize in 1996 from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris), and Alistair Miles (‘the finest British bass of his generation'—The Guardian).

Berlioz's mighty oratorio was an immediate success and was praised by all but two critics in the Paris newspapers; over 150 years later it is still as popular.

Named one of the top ten young ‘conductors on the verge of greatness' by Gramophone, Robin delivers fresh insights and vivid colours into this luminous work. Since his recording debut Robin's profile has continued to build; in 2011 Gramophone voted him one of 'Tomorrow's Icons' and he was announced as the next music director of Glyndebourne, taking over from Vladimir Jurowski in 2014.

A 24-bit 192 kHz studio master for this album is available from the Linn Records website.

CKD440  91 minutes 38 seconds (2 discs)
'Ticciati scored a critical success with performances of this work in Scotland in 2010. He draws equally tender playing from his Swedish band, securing perfect tuning of the opening woodwind chords an ...
The Observer
'Right from the opening bars, with those strange, harmonium-like sonorities that the woodwind produce, you have complete confidence that Ticciati understands the Berlioz hinterland. As the piece proce ...