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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this
performance of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which was
originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2009
as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.
Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each
essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results
of the original research by the editor or by others working in the
field are published here for the first time. Much of the material
has never before appeared in English.
A score embodying the best available musical text.
Historical background what is known of the circumstances
surrounding the origin of the work, including (where relevant)
original source material.
A detailed analysis of the music, by the editor of the volume or
another well-known scholar.
Other significant analytic essays and critical comments,
exposing the student to a variety of opinions about music."
Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was one of the most original and colourful
composers of his generation whose music was in many ways ahead of
its time. He was also a respected journalist and critic. Begun in
1848, his celebrated Memoires were completed by 1865 but published
posthumously in 1870. They are the best-known of his writings and
reflect the man - passionate, imaginative, idealistic, opinionated
and witty - and give a fascinating, first-hand, insight into his
life. He shares his uncompromising thoughts on his contemporaries
and the musical establishment in France, writes candidly about his
love affairs and engagingly on his music and travels. This first
English translation from the original French, published in 1884,
will appeal to the music lover and the general reader. Volume 1
(1803-41) includes his childhood in the Isere, studies in Paris,
struggles to establish himself and travels in Italy during 1831-2.
Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was one of the most original and colourful
composers of his generation whose music was in many ways ahead of
its time. He was also a respected journalist and critic. Begun in
1848, his celebrated Memoires were completed by 1865 but published
posthumously in 1870. They are the best-known of his writings and
reflect the man - passionate, imaginative, idealistic, opinionated
and witty - and give a fascinating, first-hand, insight into his
life. He shares his uncompromising thoughts on his contemporaries
and the musical establishment in France, writes candidly about his
love affairs and engagingly on his music and travels. This first
English translation from the original French, published in 1884,
will appeal to the music lover and the general reader. Volume 2
(1842-65) includes an engaging account, assembled from previously
published material and presented as letters to friends, of travels
to Germany and Russia.
This is a translation of the second (1858) edition of Berlioz's
landmark treatise by Mary Cowden Clarke, daughter of music
publisher Vincent Novello. The book was quick to establish itself
as a standard work, reflecting Berlioz's keen understanding of the
orchestra as both composer and conductor. It is intended as a
textbook on the craft of orchestration and to promote better
understanding of the essential character of each instrument.
Technical details and sonorities are discussed and illustrated with
musical examples from composers Berlioz admired, including Gluck
and Beethoven, and from his own compositions. This edition includes
a section on new instruments, such as the saxophone and concertina,
and on the orchestra, and a discussion on the art of conducting.
Today the treatise is an important source of information on musical
practices of the time and provides us with valuable insight into
Berlioz's imaginative and original thinking as a musician.
Hector Berlioz (1803 60189) was one of the most original and
colourful composers of his generation, whose music in many ways was
ahead of its time. He was also a highly respected journalist and
critic, producing monthly articles for the Journal des D bats for
over thirty years, as well as other writings including his
posthumously published autobiographical M moires. Unlike
journalism, which he disliked, letter-writing was a task which he
relished and at which he excelled, producing sometimes four or five
in a day and more than 3,500 during his lifetime. The letters
reflect the man - exuberant, imaginative, idealistic, opinionated
and witty - and give us a fascinating, first-hand, insight into his
life. This two-volume selection includes some 300 examples. Volume
1 includes letters to family, fellow musicians such as Hiller,
Lizst and Schumann, and friends such as Auguste Morel and fellow
critic Joseph D'Ortigue.
Hector Berlioz (1803 1869) was one of the most original and
colourful composers of his generation, whose music in many ways was
ahead of its time. He was also a highly respected journalist and
critic, producing monthly articles for the Journal des D bats for
over thirty years, as well as other writings including his
posthumously published autobiographical M moires. Unlike
journalism, which he disliked, letter-writing was a task which he
relished and at which he excelled, producing sometimes four or five
in a day and more than 3,500 during his lifetime. The letters
reflect the man - exuberant, imaginative, idealistic, opinionated
and witty - and give us a fascinating, first-hand, insight into his
life. This two-volume selection includes some 300 examples. Volume
2, with a preface by the composer Charles Gounod, is devoted to
Berlioz's letters to his lifelong friend, the lawyer and writer
Humbert Ferrand.
In this masterpiece of "program" music (a genre invented by the composer), an obsessed musician is overcome by increasingly bizarre visions of his lover. This miniature score version, an unabridged republication of the Breitkopf & Härtel edition, is handy, inexpensive, and perfect for use in the classroom or concert hall.
This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's
second collection of musical articles, originally published in
1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of
light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.
Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique is the only one of
his books that has never been translated into English in its
entirety. It is by far the funniest of all his works, and consists
of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and
comments on the absurdities of concert life. Alastair Bruce's fluid
translation brings to life this important composer and bon vivant.
He does a wonderful job of conveying all the puns, jokes, and
invective of Berlioz's prose as well as the nuances of his stories.
He even imitates a Tahitian accent in the translation, as Berlioz
does in the original. The notes will give the reader insight into
the innuendos and in-jokes that fill the pages. This translation
will take its place among other translations of Berlioz's prose
writings, bringing to the reader more lively examples of a still
misunderstood composer caught up in the musical life of
mid-nineteenth century Paris. Alastair Bruce is a London-based
management consultant and former treasurer of the Berlioz Society.
Hugh Macdonald is General Editor of New Berlioz Edition.
A visually spectacular interpretation of Berlioz's opera, staged by
the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau
de les Arts. Valery Gergiev conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat
Valenciana, with performances by Daniela Barcellona, Lance Ryan,
Elisabete Matos and Giorgio Giuseppini.
During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified
but "civilized" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the
exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read
stories, and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music
they are paid to perform. In this delightful and now classic
narrative written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector
Berlioz, we are privy to twenty-five highly entertaining evenings
with a fascinating group of distracted performers. As we near the
two-hundredth anniversary of Berlioz's birth, Jacques Barzun's
pitch-perfect translation of Evenings with the Orchestra --with a
new foreword by Berlioz scholar Peter Bloom--testifies to the
enduring pleasure found in this most witty and amusing book.
"[F]ull of knowledge, penetration, good sense, individual wit,
stock humor, justifiable exasperation, understanding exaggeration,
emotion and rhetoric of every kind." --Randall Jarrell, New York
Times Book Review "To succeed in [writing these tales], as Berlioz
most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is
very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the
aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet."--W. H. Auden, The
Griffin
Hector Berlioz has written some of the most electrifying music of
all time for brass players. Whose hair hasn't stood on end after
the last chord of Roman Carnival? The "Hungarian March" from the
Damnation of Faust has all the components of a rip-roaring good
time for audience and performer alike, complete with that effective
(loud) ending. Distilled to it's essence (without those superfluous
string and woodwind parts) this piece is scored for double brass
quintet with bass drum.
Simon Rattle conducts violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the Berliner
Philharmoniker in their annual Europa Konzert, recorded live at the
Hungarian State Opera in Budapest.
Complete, authoritative scores of two Romantic symphonic masterpieces show extra-musical themes of "program music"-and intuitive genius, Shakespearean passion of Berlioz. Includes Symphonie Fantastique "program." Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1900-1910 edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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