Throughout its five movements, Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830) tells the story of a love-struck artist who overdoses on opium and descends into psychedelic madness. While the first three ...
Hector Berlioz's musical story of unrequited love embodies a sweeping range of emotions that proves a welcome challenge for conductors. “Love is in the air”, as the lyrics of the pop classic profess, ...
There was no one man in the French Romantic Movement more hot-blooded than composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Proficient in no particular instrument, Berlioz's talent lay in composition, arrangement ...
In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...
In 1969, in one of his Young People’s Concert episodes, conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein aptly defined Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique as music’s “first psychedelic symphony in history, ...
Hearts and flowers, a box of chocolates and a candlelight dinner are a perfectly acceptable way to show a sweetheart you care. But if each day is truly Valentine’s Day and your infatuation with ...
‘Symphonie Fantastique,” Basil Twist’s abstract, wordless 1998 underwater puppet show set to the music of Hector Berlioz, is being revived downtown. Here’s part of what I wrote about it in 2004: “What ...
Despite the efforts of conductors such as Roger Norrington and John Eliot Gardiner from the 1980s onwards, period instrument performances of Berlioz in general and the Symphonie Fantastique in ...
Admirers of Robin Ticciati might be surprised, and not a little frustrated, that his discography has so far been rather small, although at the age of only 28 he still has plenty of time. Prior to this ...
Robin Ticciati's first disc with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is devoted to the composer who has featured prominently in his programmes since he became their principal conductor in 2009. Few ...
The Auckland Philharmonia close a haunting programme of Liszt, Berlioz, and Webster. Photo / Sav Schulman Halloween came early with the Auckland Philharmonia’s Fantastique! concert offering devilry, ...
From City Halls in Glasgow, violist Timothy Ridout joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev for an all-Berlioz concert. Show more From City Halls in Glasgow, ...
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