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Donald Macleod sees Berlioz’s life come full circle as he tries rekindling an old flame. Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly high expectations, in his wider life as well as his music. As the quintessential Romantic, one friend said that love was the “alpha and omega of his existence”. This week Donald Macleod looks at Berlioz through the passions and relationships that shaped who he was and what he created, exploring the romantic obsessions of an especially obsessive man. We’ll also hear a movement of his Symphonie Fantastique each day – Berlioz’s best known work, and the musical embodiment of his most powerful infatuation. In today's programme, having buried both his wives, Berlioz decides to seek out his childhood love, Estelle Duboeuf. This boyhood passion always stayed with him and sparked not only his desire to compose, but his lifelong quest for ideal love. For Berlioz, Estelle was the first, and it would fall to her to end the story. Au Cimetière (Nuits d’été) Veronique Gens, soprano Opera National de Lyon Louis Langree, conductor Rêverie et caprice for violin Renaud Capucon Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Daniel Harding, conductor Les Troyens : Act IV, Nos 34b-37 ("O blonde Ceres…Nuit d’ivresse") Kenneth Tarver (Iopas) Michelle DeYoung (Didon) Ben Heppner (Enee) London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Colin Davis, conductor Le dépit de la bergère, H. 7 Elsa Dreisig, soprano Jeff Cohen, piano Symphonie Fantastique (5th movement – Songe d’une nuit de sabbat) San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker