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Uploaded by on May 7, 2009

Hector Berlioz

Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin "La marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph de Lisle

Sylvia McNair, soprano and Richard Leech, tenor
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & Baltimore Symphony Chorus & St. Michael and All Angels Choir conducted by David Zinman

Berlioz' flamboyant setting of La Marseillaise, for soloists, double chorus and orchestra, partakes of the patriotism that burned so fiercely when Captain Rouget de L'Isle wrote the song's music and words in a single night of 1792 while stationed with an engineer corps at Strasbourg and that was revived during the uprising of 1830. It is a stirring arrangement, including all six verses of de Lisle's original anthem, whose bursting nationalism continues to make it "de rigueur" at French ceremonial occasions.

Painting by Auguste Pinelli (1823-after 1878)

painting ca. 1875 Rouget de Lisle composant la Marseillaise

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  • who is the artist of the painting?

  • @karoloandria It is by Auguste Pinelli (1823-after 1878)

    painting ca. 1875 Rouget de Lisle composant la Marseillaise

  • If politically incorrect and derogatory comments keep coming I will disable the comments. Berlioz doesn't deserve this nonsense, and neither does the French National Anthem, one of the best!

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  • La Marseillaise pourrait bien redevenir le chant de ralliement pour faire tomber les injustices qui deviennent de plus en plus criantes dans ce pays, ce chant à mon humble avis fera encore trembler l'Europe

  • La Marseillaise nous rappelle la necessite de lutter contre les tyrans, qu'ils soient monarques usant du 'droit divin' pour ecraser l'homme ou capitalistes pronant la souverainte du marche pour le soumettre.

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  • @Cthulhussama Merci beaucoup pour vos commentaires judicieux. Salutations de l'Oregon.

  • @TheFandefrance "TheFandefrance " Bien un frontiste qui parle franglais, on aura tout vu. Non cet hymne n'appartient à AUCUN parti, et c'est particulièrement vrai de cette version (Berlioz) par un choeur anglophone.

  • roi ne veut pas dire tyran.croyer vous que louis 16 etait vraiment un tyran?

  • @bartje11

    thanks you

  • @tamdegledel1 Qu'est ce qu'on s'en fout que la prononciation ne soit pas parfaite. C'est du Berlioz et c'est très beau. Je suis très content que des non Français chantent en Français.

  • @UKMinistry

    Franco-Prussian war France underestimated the prussians and was crushed.

    WW I French victory,Britain was secondary once more,not so much as in the Napoleonic wars.

    WW II France early defeat,not full submission,Britain was more relevant than France until 1944 liberation,the french in 1945 become the 2nd main western allied force in Europe,and the greatest in manpower,and the first to sucessfull break nazi defenses in Western Germany.

    This spectacular anthem is fully deserved.

  • @UKMinistryOfSound

    "have this warmongering anthem but still manage to loose most wars they take part in."

    You are just talking about the most sucessfull and influential country in European/World history.

    Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars 4 wars won against a great part of Europe,1 lost,in all of them Britain was completely secondary,militarily nearly irrelevant,and survived thanks to the channel.

  • Une interprétation à la fois céleste et grandiose d'un hymne qui ne saurait mériter mieux. Et alors si les chanteurs ont un accent ? Cela donne à notre hymne une couleur qui nous rappelle qu'il est universel avant que d’être proprement français et que son message peut être clamé, tant par un français, qu'un anglais -en l’occurrence- ou que par quiconque en sentira le besoin.

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