Deryk Barker's response:

>Mikael Rasmusson (Mikael Rasmusson.utfors.se) wrote:
>
>>What about Liszt and Wagner?  I only know of one "HIP" Liszt
>>recording (On Harmonia Mundi).  I remember that I saw and heard
>>(on TV) Symphonie Fantastique played on authentic instruments.
>>This must have been ten
>>year ago.  Can anybody help me?  It was an European orchestra.
>
>I'm not quite sure to what you are referring here.  There have been
>(at least) two HIP recordings of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
>(LCP/Norrington and ORR/Eliot-Gardiner), neither of which I care for.

It was the ORR I saw and heard.  Thank you!  I think that the use of old
brass intruments was a success. It added darkness to the orchestral
palette.

>I can't think of any HIP Liszt recordings offhand - and did *he*
>write a Symphonie Fantastique?  I don't think so, hence my confusion.
>AFAIK the only two works he designated thus were the Faust Symphony
>(a masterpiece IMHO) and the Dante Symphony (a good try).

Sorry if this caused confusion, but neither Liszt nor Wagner wrote
a Symphonie Fantastique.  A HIP Liszt recording is the Beethoven
Cantata c/w Beethoven's Choral Fantasy on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.  The
Capella Coloniensis was formed in 1954 as "the orchestra for historical
performances" according to the booklet.  In this recording the tuning
is based on a=430 Hertz.  In the Choral fantasy they use a fortepiano
dating from 1815, but the quality of that piano (and possibly the
positioning of the microphone) fails to impress me........

Mikael Rasmusson