Symphonie Fantastique

Hansjörg Albrecht has selected the organ version of the Rákoczi March from La Damnation de Faust as the opening of his new SACD in Oehms Classics Organ Transcription Series. More or less like an overture, he makes a virtuoso piece out of it a veritable display of fireworks in the style of Horowitz or Liszt (who wrote the Symphonie fantastique piano transcription). Together with the Symphonie fantastique, this Berlioz series is now complete. Born 1972, conductor, organist and harpsichordist Hansjörg Albrecht is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation.