Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs this authoritative performance of Berlioz"s towering opera, recorded in True Surround Sound. Susan Graham and Gregory Kunde lead a strong cast in the powerful masterpiece wrought from Virgil"s epic poem The Aeneid. A special attraction of this recording is that Sir John Eliot Gardiner managed to assemble a full set of the instruments envisaged by Berlioz for this opera.