It contains a fugue episode of unsurpassed beauty.
_Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne_ is, perhaps, the best of the famous symphonic poems.

The author was inspired by Victor Hugo's poetry and reproduced its spirit admirably.

When will this typical work appear in the concert repertoires?
When will orchestra conductors get tired of presenting the three or four Wagnerian works they repeat _ad nauseum_, when they can be heard at the Opera under better conditions, and Schubert's insignificant _Unfinished Symphony_.
* * * * * The _Christus_ oratorio was given at the first concert of the festival at Heidelberg.

It lasted three hours and a half and is so long that I would not dare to advise concert managers to try such an adventure.

The performance was sublime.