Ozawa conducts Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - First Movement [Part 1/7]

[AerithFFVIIroxs1]

i like the idee fixe in the 4th movement with the lone clarinet playing it

[AAwildeone]

Program notes have nothing to to do with the music - then or now.

[yesterdayismyday]

This is incredibly beautiful.

[kevinhc628]

The tune at 4:37 is the idée fixe. The tune represents the beloved (Harriot Smithson), whom the song was based on. Each movement is a different theme, and by the end, he "takes opium" and hallucinates of killing the beloved. Each movement, the theme returns but in a progressively transforming state.

[BlahBlahYouWho]

@gregplaysviola

I think it's the hair that does it.

[duhhh86]

@BlahBlahYouWho wait, are u guys talking about ozawa or berlioz?

[KiyoKenshin]

We're going to have a marching band show based off of this symphony... its going to be epic.

[luchalmon]

I haven't found the 'idee fixé"...

Could anybody help me?

[devaraja42]

It starts at 4:36.

[Larzuk19]

based on a fixed idea, which basically means an idea which reoccurs but is treated differently each time it is played

[vivimaze]

@luchalmon its the solo line that represents his love.

[BlahBlahYouWho]

@luchalmon

Idee Fixe? Oh! I believe he works at Seven-Eleven.