March To The Scaffold - Symphonie Fantastique 4th Movement

Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti

Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions. He dreams that he has killed his beloved, that he is condemned, led to the scaffold and is witnessing his own execution. The procession advances to the sound of a march that is sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn, in which a dull sound of heavy footsteps follows without transition the loudest outbursts. At the end of the march, the first four bars of the idée fixe reappear like a final thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow. -Berlioz

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• March
• Scaffold
• Symphony
• Symphonie
• Sinfonie
• Berlioz
• Fantastique
• opium
• poppy
• codeine
• morphine
• Hector
• classical
• music

[horngeek8D]

random repeat?

[timberlanes1972]

@horngeek8D No.

[BASSHEAD89030]

so he gets his head chop off and then berlioz ends it with a major chord hahahahah

[hannydoover]

this is my favorite recording of this piece, Charlie Vernon plays those pedal Bb's so freaking hilariously loud.

[gabelance1]

On my version of this song this movement is called Procession to the Stake....

[gabelance1]

@BASSHEAD89030 Yeah, that major chord is the audience all happy that they got to see someone excecuted

[ZeroHex5412]

lol "bum bum bum" goes the trumbone as the head rolls to the ground

[TheElliotGreen]

Berlioz + opium = Awesome music

[SuperQwert11]

6:08 the ghost of the woman comes right befor he dies

[Iloveofrahaza87]

Many thanks for the description, is wonderful like the same symphonie. Would like to know the description of the whole symphony, for me the bests in the history toguether with some of Beethoven.

[AllanXRLTS3]

My middle school orchestra is playin this for MPA

[ghostie7790]

i loooove playing this song in band. i get so excited