Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique 23

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) to 1827 in five of the Symphonie Fantastique, an artist's life is an episode, it was as Ophelia in Hamlet, Shakespeare's famous English / Irish actress Harriet Smithson stage of work began. Berlioz fell deeply in love with and in honor of his symphonic works. Berlioz continued to send her love letters, but they do not actually meet until 1832, when Berlioz was through a mutual friend to give her some tickets to an upcoming concert run. The day, he realized that his music has inspired, and they were married in 1833.

Berlioz symphony's premiere, a program to distribute. What is a good way to unite behind the program is to learn to read have given Berlioz:

Part one

Daydreams, passions

  He imagines that the spirit of a young singer with a famous writer whose emotional illness (le vague des passions), the uncertainty in the oppressed, the first time, a woman who charms unites all his thought was the ideal person committee, dreaming, and was desperately in love with a waterfall. By a strange anomaly, dear artist, the image presented to an instrument of mind, he is a certain quality of emotion recognition, but endowed with high shyness, she credits her love-object is not ever associated with. The haunting melody of a double image and its model as muse, he always kept. The tune, which is the constant repetition of the first allegro of the start of the match. First of all, this form factor - the state of dreamy melancholy, aimless their occasional upsurges, drunken rage to madness and jealousy of outbursts, feeling its back, its tears, its religious consolations with, Interrupted by to transport.

Part two

A ball

Artist of the most diverse circumstances of life, the tumult of a festive nature, peaceful and beautiful place for contemplation, and self-finding, it is still everywhere, whether in city or countryside lover image that keeps haunting him and throws his body in the confusion.

Part three

Countryside within the scene

This pastoral duet, the settings, gentle rustling of the wind in the trees, I hope he does that for some reason, recently, all the intrigue, the countryside is one of the evening was the distance between the two mesapalakadera ranz des vaches' dialoging with a new sense of calm to restore a file from his heart and He thought for a comfortable look. He was on his loneliness broods, and hope that soon he will be there on your own ... But what if you betray him ... This mingled hope and fear, happiness is disturbed by the idea of ​​dark premonitions, slow to form. At the end of one of his mesapalakadera 'ranz des vaches' resumes; another one to the north. Lightning ... Solitude ... Distant sound of silence ...

Part four

The scaffold to

Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. His death is very weak when the dose of narcotic, a heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest aspect of his plunges. He has a dream that she killed her husband, that he is disgraced, and his death led pratyaksikarana scaffold. One of the words that sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn, in which a dull sound of heavy footsteps to follow the loudest outbursts march forward without change. At the end of March, the final thought of love as an obsession reappear four times interrupted by the fatal blow.

Part five

A witches' day dream

The witches' Sunday in a self-made shades, sorcerers and monsters of every kind come together for his funeral in the midst of a hideous gathering. Strange sounds, groans, ludicrous outbursts; distant shouts which seem to be answered by more shouts. Beloved melody appears once more, but now lost its noble and shy character; it is a vulgar dance tune, trivial and bizarre high: it is he who is coming on Sunday to ... The roar of the arrival time at the pleasure of ... He joins diabolical orgy ... Funeral knell tolls, burlesque parody of the dies irae, witches and dancing. Dance with the witches of the dies irae.

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Berlioz symphony's premiere was planned long before the finish. He is working feverishly to complete the work and will run from May 1830 that is sufficient to teach. The final score together, everyone involved had a few rehearsals, it is not considered ready for leadership. Berlioz to re-take the score up, and it's December 1830 premiere, it was with only two rehearsals! However, the match was a success.

It is difficult to know how many composers were influenced by the harmony. It was a piece of music is very new and daring of the day. Harmony of the form (6 Beethoven symphony 'pastoral', five of which are inspired by), harmonies, Liszt and Wagner that the perplexity is used by the Lietmotif as more advanced, and, above all the orchestration pieces, all were signs that the music has changed. Berlioz and the pure sound of the orchestra come from, but the main one is that Berlioz was not a pianist. Composers who were pianists pianistic terms, as part of the co-ordination, and the gap in thinking about trends. Even when many composers writing for orchestra, a piano work, 'outline' to be. Berlioz in this way did not work. Playing his instrument was the guitar, an instrument where there is a choice that will play a string of specific note. However, the pitch of a note can be played on two strings, a string of tonal color is more or less different in diameter. Berlioz on the large orchestra, including some of these differences may be subtle, however, calls for, pure sound, you can make a difference.

A few words about the use of an audio video, John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, using the same equipment is working (valveless horns, natural trumpets) Symphonie Fantastique in Paris that was premiered in 1830 was a record. Berlioz, this is to listen to a lot of concerts as well as many concerts there. Berlioz would like to hear what the recording is very good (albeit with more rehearsals), the. Hearing is not dry, that there is very little vibration. Once your ears get used to, but that, in your ear, sounds and subtleties that will identify the treatment of other recordings. Recording of the 2nd movement of the solo cornet part. None of the women's recurring obsession with Carl and myself, Harriet Smithson other.

Oh, and Berlioz, and her husband did not live happily ever after? Hardly. Smithson got the time to care about him marrying Berlioz had lost his popularity, and was deeply in debt. Berlioz for his part grew tired of his obsession for love instead of being so quick. The eight-bitter, unhappy marriage, divorced years later.


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