SFS Media Presents

Hector Berlioz’s:
Roméo et Juliette

A premiere album recording from the Grammy-winning Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony.

Berlioz's Roméo et Juliet

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony bring unsurpassed storytelling to their latest recording on the Grammy Award-winning SFS Media label: Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette With a narrative that Berlioz deemed "too beautiful, too musical to not be performed, this Impassioned orchestral scoring  of  love and despair is further enriched by the vocals of Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, Luca Pisaroni, and the SFS Chorus. Available in studio master-quality on two-disc SACD and for digital download and streaming.

On This Album

San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone
San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Roméo et Juliet, Opus 17

Part 1
I. Introduction and Prologue

Part 2

II. Romeo Alone—Festivity at the Capulets’
III. The Capulets’ Garden—Love Scene
IV. Scherzo: Queen
Mab

Part 3

I. Second Prologue—Juliet’s Funeral Cortège
II. Romeo in the Tomb of the Capulets
III. Finale: Brawl between the Capulets and the Montagues
IV. —Friar Laurence’s Recitative and Aria
V. —Oath of Reconciliation

Total Playing Time: 01:44:31