Music Of The Great Composers --

Hector Berlioz-Part 7 As I remarked in the course of this article, most of Berlioz's works betray a preference for the gigantic - for the prodigious. Whoever expected to meet in the music of his last opera, The Trojans, those extravagances which shock us so often in his symphonies, would be, however, disappointed. I witnessed a performance of Les Trojens in Carlsruhe under Mottl's direction, and I was surprised to find a very tame Berlioz. The opera is performed in two..