Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique 4th part marche au supplice, Ploiesti Philharmonic Orchestra

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


Conductor Radu Postavaru
Part four
March to the scaffold 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.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• berlioz
• symphonie
• fantastique
• ovidiu
• balan
• ploiesti

[bistrosidecar]

@mikaelnorm Un Ball is better, and don't forget that Beethoven was essentially of the Romantic era too. The 9th symphony is pretty much the greatest piece of music ever written. Tchaikovsky as well...

[mikaelnorm]

Surely the greatest piece of Romantic music ever written?

[thewigsterpig45]

@308813062 yes! why is Chopin so often overlooked!

[Kamikazekandi]

I love the fact that this whole song is opium inspired.

Don't believe me. <3

Go do some homework.

This is the fourth part of his trip--where he feels as though he is marching off to his own execution.

[308813062]

@bistrosidecar Chopin

[Gordontrek]

Playing 2nd cornet in the local youth orchestra for this song... it's AWESOME

[777wallaby777]

@bistrosidecar chacuns ses gouts…, pour moi y a beaucoup mieux :)

[TheCrazychick07]

I have played this before, and it was so much fun to play. This is one of my favorite pieces. I love it =)

[fmusikalia]

I would like to see an animated video about this symphony relating the history. It would be Nice..

[radiootoo]

rather the Detroit Symphony Paul Paray, cond.