Hector Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique LIVE REACTION AND REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
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What a great piece. Masterful in orchestral colour and intensity, unusual in structure, original like every Berlioz piece, utterly passionate and romantic. Berlioz didn't write much music, but his artistic figure low-key inspired many of the later romantics and especially this piece, that may be his best and most beloved one
Outstanding. That looks like a monster to play. Thanks for the shout-out. I'm glad you liked it.
Hi Justin. Dave from London. Thanks for the name check and playing this terrific piece of music. I've seen it in concert several times, and the final movement always gives me chills. Normally it comes with orchestra Plus... Tubular Bells, giving it a real demonic atmosphere. The descending Dies Irae (day of judgement) melody crops up a lot in all types of music. For example, your reaction to The Enid featured it.
This is my favorite symphony! So glad you’re reacting to it!
Yay Berlioz!! The only composer I made a point of collecting pretty much every work of his on records. I heard this on the radio when I was about 12 and ill with chicken pox. The last two movements knocked me for six and I would scan radio schedules and record anything of his they broadcast. He was a hilarious writer as well. Not exactly a first listen appreciation composer but he was way ahead of the game back then.
Wild to consider that Berlioz heard this music premiere just three years after the death of Beethoven, a composer he deeply admired. How much things had changed for symphonic music in that short a time!
As a vampire, I have been aware of this piece for more than 150 years, but had waited to enjoy it with one of my acquaintances or victims. It has proved well worth the wait, with a great performance and great sound for a mostly live audience recording.
In the last movement the beloved theme is transformed into a gnarled crone dancing. The theme of the mass of the dead Dies Irae moves the macabre celebration.
He also does a great performance of Brahms symphony 4 with a French orchestra.
I really enjoy your reactions to classical music. You may not be as familiar with classical as you are with other genres, but you are very musical and just 'get it'. I loved your image of a falling feather during the first movement - I understood immediately! - and how you notice when the conductor communicates what he wants. May I be cheeky and suggest a piece that you might react to? 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' (orchestra version) by Maurice Ravel. Thanks!
You don't need a quiz, JP, listen to Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which is great fun and much better than it needed to be.
Good idea, Ozy. It's how my Dad first introduced me to classical music, pointing out all the instruments.
yeah, it's for....children.
This Live version is good ua-cam.com/video/IMGqdUqPnmo/v-deo.htmlsi=g5eyoxJ5nghkDAk1
Hey Justin, it's okay to read up on a classical piece so you'll know what to look for such as a returning melody. Even with operas the surprise should be in the performance, not the plot. It's more informed listening than popular music.
Bernstein, New York, is the best recording of this symphony!
Lenny did it multiple times. If in doubt, choose his 1963 recording with NYP. 🙂
Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic is well done, too. I'll have to check out Bernstein / NYP -- I know he does dramatic performances really well, I have his recordings of Dvorak, Copland and Stravinsky works.
J'aime pas cette oeuvre et j'aime pas de chef. Il y a tellement de grands compositeurs français qui ont écrit de magnifiques symphonies, comme Magnard ou d'Indy. Je trouve Berlioz absolument pénible.
Since you are diving deeper and deeper into the classical world, one performance i would highly recommend is recording without audience of Jacques Offenbach's Les conted d'Hoffmann with Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča (YT -> ua-cam.com/video/0u0M4CMq7uI/v-deo.html)
Check: Agnus Dei - Muziek tegen oorlog, dood en ellende (deel het!)
The only symphony I know of that has 5 movements instead of 4. If you know of others please let me know
Gustav Mahler 2nd, his 6th has 6 movements. Listen to Mahler! Beethoven 6th.
@@bernhardfbuttner5694 thanks.
Dmitri Shostakovich: 8th, 9th and 13th (5 movements each), 14th (11 movements).
Not directly on point, but Verdi's _Don Carlos_ (an Italian opera about a French princess who is forced to marry a Spanish king) originallu had five acts, which was long, even by the standards of the day when the European aristocratic classes had little better to do than hang around in opera theatres all night, showing themselves off in boxes, simpering behind fans, and waiting for popular uprisings to sweep them from power If you want a taste, check out Elisaveta's 11 o'clock number, the tear jerking _Tu le che vanita,_ in which she laments the love she has sacrificed for duty, and yearns for eternal peace of the grave. As the souls of the dead burst from their tombs for a huge cast ensemble, she brings the show home in a massive, tragic finale. Callas's live recital performance is stunningly dramatic, and features has some low notes that sound as if she recorded them in an actual subterranean mausoleum! There's also a rousing 'friendship' duet for tenor and baritone in Act II that features Don Carlos who, spoiler alert, is not the King! Talk about messy.
Symphonies of Johann Christian Bach, Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach and many other composers of the early classical era have 3 movements.
Shostakovitch, Tishchenko, Berio, Messiaen : 5
most of that 'spit' is condensation. But it's still pretty gross (I played French horn as a kid).