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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."
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
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.
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