Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique part 1

To watch this performance, click here:

1.Rêveries - Passions (Daydreams - Passions) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDbkp4HHs8&feature=channel_page
2.Un bal (A ball) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om8BBYFxJxo
3.Scène aux champs (Scene in the country) : first part of 3td mvmt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9Tmt3DzBA and 2nd part of 3 td mvmt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzeJfq135lI
4.Marche au supplice (March to the scaffold) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQ3dZmDvAg
5.Songe d'une nuit de sabbat (Dream of a witches' Sabbath) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqZoAT8428



Prima parte din prima miscare
First movement: "Rêveries - Passions"
In Berlioz's own program notes from 1845, he writes:[1]

The author imagines that a young vibrant musician, afflicted by the sickness of spirit which a famous writer[2] has called the wave of passions [la vague des passions], sees for the first time a woman who unites all the charms of the ideal person his imagination was dreaming of, and falls desperately in love with her. By a strange anomaly, the beloved image never presents itself to the artists mind without being associated with a musical idea, in which he recognises a certain quality of passion, but endowed with the nobility and shyness which he credits to the object of his love.

This melodic image and its model keep haunting him ceaselessly like a double idée fixe. This explains the constant recurrence in all the movements of the symphony of the melody which launches the first allegro. The transitions from this state of dreamy melancholy, interrupted by occasional upsurges of aimless joy, to delirious passion, with its outbursts of fury and jealousy, its returns of tenderness, its tears, its religious consolations all this forms the subject of the first movement.

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