Episode 14: Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz

How to win a girl in a symphony: a tale of obsession, the Romantic age, tortured artists, intricate storytelling, and why you should always be careful what you wish for!

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MUSIC CREDITS:

Composer: Hector Berlioz
Work: Symphonie fantastique: Episode de la vie d’un artiste...en cinq parties, Op.14
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Year: 2006
Label: LSO Live
Catalogue No: LSO0007

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[antoniomelo]

ALL HAIL HECTOR BERLIOZ, KING OF THE SIMPS

[doc]

Bassoonist here! At 10:20 the ophicleide is the correct instrument used in the original orchestration, but it is NOT a “cross between a bassoon and saxophone.” That description would better fit another instrument called the sarrusophone. The ophicleide is really more like a tuba or euphonium with woodwind keys and folded like a bassoon

[MetalArsonist]

"what better way to represent hell than with a fugue" i nearly choke on my snack lmao

[RubenBurvenich]

This man is doing wonders for making classical music more accessible and for some perhaps less intimidating for such a broad scope of (also young, I hope, ) people. Humor, depth, great editing! I take my hat off to you, sir!

[PaladinOrco]

You know the saying... "There is no fury like a simp composer scorned."

[martontoth]

I love that. He is my composer, he is as silly as me!

[jumphawk]

Babe wake up, classics exaplained just uploaded

[peterpais]

Omg I would love to see an episode about Shostakovich 7! It's not just a wonderful masterpiece, but it is also interesting musically and it's backstory and it's Leningrad premiere is an incredible story.

[lincolny]

this was thoroughly informative and disturbing, I now understand Mendelssohn's horror about this piece now lmao

[joelclifton]

Symphonie Fantastique was a piece way ahead of its time. Hard to believe it was written just three years after Beethoven. Not that Beethoven wasn't way ahead of his time, but Symphonie Fantastique - WOW!

Berlioz was the real inventor of the symphonic poem. Lizst just popularized them.

[Morten-fo]

Every single time I have listened to the fourth movement, I have always imagined that Berlioz is just an quiet old man, who just loves some military marches and the sound of trumpets.

I would never ever have thought that In reality it is a March to the scaffold. Or imagined how twisted he is and the symphony is.

He is a genius

[AcidicLifestyle]

8:33
This was because Berlioz salvaged parts of his abandoned opera “Les Francs-juges” and incorporated them into the movement

[vacuumlover]

9:35
Literally one of the hardest excerpts to play on Eb clarinet

And today I learned it’s about witches drinking and twerking

[AlexanderStemkowski]

* diabolical laughter Monty-Python-style ALL through the episode* Thank you, guys!

[bubbac]

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[medviation]

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[hrithikavirkud]

Beethoven: *had a crush on Elise*
Hector: *Is simp for a girl*

No wonder why Beethoven is his Idol

[chrismanuel]

Symphonie Fantastique is one of my favourites. Nothing like getting melancholic and drinky while listening to it. 😆 I had no idea about the subtext of the peice, but now it makes total sense. Bloody artists.

[danailvasilev]

Hi. I started watching this series because I wanted a quick introduction to rite of spring. Now I'm watching them one by one - I've found it extremely captivating. I hope there will be more!