Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; recommendations....

If memory serves, Chesky Records produced a 180 gram LP of this work.

The new SACD Hybrid release on Telarc with Jarvi conducting the Cincinnati is surprisingly good. It is recorded extremely well and the performance is top notch.

For another suggestion, you might also want to get the RCA Living Stereo release of Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Sir Thomas Beecham and Jean Martinon performance versions are my recommendations.

Sir Thomas Beecham and the ORTF performed the Sym. Fantastique with a melancholy and relayed the dream like state of this work very well. The sound is more than acceptable, but do not expect audio demonstration quality.
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2787828

Jean Martinon also performed the same piece with the ORTF and delivered an equally stunning performance.
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1767831

The links are included for your reference, but I do NOT endorse Tower Records.

Aaron

I have many recommendable versions on LP, but on the CD, from my own personal listenting, I can recommend the Symphonie Fantastique version LONDON G2-36839 with the Chicago Symphony, Sir Georg Solti, conducting. It is a live recording from the 1992 Saltzburg Whisun Concert, Grosses Festspielhaus. I just listened to it and I can recommend it from both the interpretation as well as the sonics. It also includes Franz Lizt's Les Prelude in what is a sonic blockbuster. However, I looked for it at Amazon and Tower and see that it is out of stock. I suggest you try good sources for used CD's. An Audiogoner has recommended a version on Telarc, and I have an LP of that version and it is a good one.