Episode 14: Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz
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MUSIC CREDITS:
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Work: Symphonie fantastique: Episode de la vie d’un artiste...en cinq parties, Op.14
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
Year: 2006
Label: LSO Live
Catalogue No: LSO0007
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ALL HAIL HECTOR BERLIOZ, KING OF THE SIMPS
The first Emo.
Hahhahah
So it’s Berlioz the stalker, simp, and drug addict.
@@glenngouldschair390 and amazing musical artist
@@Vienic2 Oh wait, did I forget that?
"what better way to represent hell than with a fugue" i nearly choke on my snack lmao
Wherhee that’s true or not..
You know the saying... "There is no fury like a simp composer scorned."
they only said that because of berlioz lol
This man is doing wonders for making classical music more accessible and for some perhaps less intimidating for such a broad scope of (also young, I hope,) people. Humor, depth, great editing! I take my hat off to you, sir!
You are absolutely right. They are doing a tremendous job 👏👏👍
As a 15 year old, I greatly appreciate these videos, they helped immensely with getting some of my friends into classical music, and broaden my understanding of some of my favorite pieces!
Hi @@aidanm.2044, that's so great to hear! Keep on loving music 🎶!
Absolutely, I'm 16 with no musical education and this gentleman is definitely making the symphony sound incredibly irresistible. Classical music has helped improve my attention span😅
@@aayushyadav3365 that's wonderful! So glad to hear music has helped you in that way =)
this was thoroughly informative and disturbing, I now understand Mendelssohn's horror about this piece now lmao
Hahahahhaha
Mendelssohn: how scandalous.
Even though Mendelssohn didn't like this work, they were good friends. When Berlioz had his final mental breakdown after losing his son, he burned everything he has and only left a baton given by Mendelssohn and a guitar given by Paganini.
Bassoonist here! At 10:20 the ophicleide is the correct instrument used in the original orchestration, but it is NOT a “cross between a bassoon and saxophone.” That description would better fit another instrument called the sarrusophone. The ophicleide is really more like a tuba or euphonium with woodwind keys and folded like a bassoon
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Omg I would love to see an episode about Shostakovich 7! It's not just a wonderful masterpiece, but it is also interesting musically and it's backstory and it's Leningrad premiere is an incredible story.
Almost all Shostakovich's symphonies are interesting musically
@gigogrom symphony no.2 'megalul
You took the words out of my mouth..!
ME TOO
I’m playing this for my middle school band concert:)
Fantastique!
Like, the original or the suite by Michael Story?
@@GreenBoy9000 i’m not sure, i know it’s modified for bands instead of orchestra though. we did it with the high school:)
8:33
This was because Berlioz salvaged parts of his abandoned opera “Les Francs-juges” and incorporated them into the movement
9:35
Literally one of the hardest excerpts to play on Eb clarinet
And today I learned it’s about witches drinking and twerking
ha! Thanks for this comment
lol, I played Bb clarinet myself; I thought Simple Gifts was tough.
Beethoven: *had a crush on Elise*
Hector: *Is simp for a girl*
No wonder why Beethoven is his Idol
Beethoven was the precursor of the simp. Also I see that Berlioz admired every aspect of Beethoven. Look at his hairstyle.
I love that. He is my composer, he is as silly as me!
Every single time I have listened to the fourth movement, I have always imagined that Berlioz is just an quiet old man, who just loves some military marches and the sound of trumpets.
I would never ever have thought that In reality it is a March to the scaffold. Or imagined how twisted he is and the symphony is.
He is a genius
I LOVE the Melancholy Land map !
Symphonie Fantastique was a piece way ahead of its time. Hard to believe it was written just three years after Beethoven. Not that Beethoven wasn't way ahead of his time, but Symphonie Fantastique - WOW!
Berlioz was the real inventor of the symphonic poem. Lizst just popularized them.
You have got to do Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome” next. Your work makes these pieces so accessible.
Yeah, do it!
Why don’t people understand that they need patrons in order to do new videos. For gods sake stop demanding him to do more and just have respect. Plus they’re probably enjoying have a life and not doing these so for gods sake stop being sad!
Or fountains of rome
Ooo that would be awesome
@@cadentrombone5345 YESSSSSS
Berlioz’s expressions are just so on point 😂
* diabolical laughter Monty-Python-style ALL through the episode* Thank you, guys!
Where did u go why did u go please come back there's so much more I wanna listen about 😭😭
Poor Harriet. She didn’t deserve the crap Berlioz put her through
ikr, and what if she became an alcoholic because of him??? being stolked by and then forced to marry????? my gosh its a bit extreme innit
Well I feel bad for both
@@whalien_translations Berlioz is an extremist.
@@pianosbloxworld4460 well yes I have realised
@@pianosbloxworld4460 he was quite….a dickhead…but he was quite kind otherwise, and we can hear his desperation- I have sympathy for him but maybe I’m biased being into Mendelssohn
I have been waiting for the new ep!
It has been over a year and I am still hoping for Episode 15! (Mahler Symphonie Nr. 6 would be great! I never found a good introduction to Mahler)
Right loser, they want money otherwise they won’t do anything. If you’re willing to pay a lot of money for a youtube video (how sad does that sound?) then go ahead.
Also Mahler is overrated.
@@alegendamongmen Can u just relax the animators producers etc…works really hard to make patreons/money
here are some ideas for next episode:
1: Carmen (Bizet)
2: L'Arlésienne (Bizet)
3: William Tell (Rossini)
4: The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
5: Aida (Verdi)
6: Rigoletto (Verdi)
7: Má vlást (Smetana)
8: The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
9: Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
10: Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky)
11: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
12: Faust (Gounod)
13: Water Music (Handel)
14: Egmont (Beethoven)
15: The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
Which one do you like to do for next episode?
Leningrad Symphony (Shostakovich)
Daphnis et chloe (Ravel)
St.John’s night on bald mountain!!!!! ( the original and the re-orchestration)
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Love Má vlást!
Would love to see Mahler’s 2nd symphony! Insane and massive piece that would probably make for a great video
YESSSSSS
Yes please! Mahler's 2nd Symphony "Resurrection"!
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Symphonie Fantastique is one of my favourites. Nothing like getting melancholic and drinky while listening to it. 😆 I had no idea about the subtext of the peice, but now it makes total sense. Bloody artists.
I am hearing this Symphony performed in Sydney, AUSTRALIA this coming weekend. I absolutely did not recognise a single piece of music in it. However, I wanted to understand what I will be hearing and this presentation has been fantastic. I have watched it several times and also listened to Fantastique being performed on TH-cam as well. I can’t thank you enough.
We hope you enjoy the performance!
Hi. I started watching this series because I wanted a quick introduction to rite of spring. Now I'm watching them one by one - I've found it extremely captivating. I hope there will be more!
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You mentioned Mendelssohn in this presentation. He not only revived Bach's St. Mathew Passion (for Easter), he is also known for The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Concert Overture, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Songs without words (including Spring Song), Festgezang (the work behind Hark the Herald Angels Sing), Elijah, Overture and Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hear My Prayer.
Last time I was this early, Mozart dropped a new track
very good
Can’t wait to see how you add humor to a Mahler or Bruckner symphony. Great videos!
Totally lol
3rd movement is beautiful. As a violist. I feel fresh playing the melody of that movement.
Love this comment - so good
summary: guy had a celebrity crush but she rejected him so he took drugs and wrote a symphony about it
I am utterly confused
But it’s really addictive
Ikr! Perhaps it's because it is the slightest bit... Relatable??
Me and my husband who is a music teacher, musician, etc and I are really enjoying this video we are half way through. 7:58 currently.
"The full Tarantino treatment"... that said it all! I first heard this piece explained in live concert in 1974, but your video was so much more entertaining after all these years. I side with Mendelssohn-haha
Mendelssohn what? He stole Harriet?
What entertaining videos. Must watch for everybody!
Rossini's William Tell Overture also had a ranz des vaches but this leads to a famous galop at the end.
Please come back. I miss these so much!!!
Hooray! He’s back!
So hyped he is back!
I put myself to the task of memorizing each instrumental line in the score.... I've been studying this Symphony for what I'd say is 4 or 5 years and this work of Berlioz in particular still affects me with goose bumps and explosive amounts of emotion, I've never felt so surrendered by sound, thus my dream to one day conduct this piece.
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Hallelujah!
Rhapsody in Blue next please! Love the content!
Amazing vid, worth the wait 100%
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@@ClassicsExplained Really is worth. For people like me with a dumb-ear that still like music, this stuff is really the best. It's just a sweet bonus that it is in cartoon form.
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Jesus Christ!
This episode was a wild ride xD
I certainly didn’t expect a Sabbath of twerking witches played by… You know… Piccolos 😳
I love Harriet's derpy face at 12:45! 😂
He has returned
Damn it, this is so much like Dante and Beatrice in the Divine Comedy but on steroi... I mean Opium
And that there’s the key difference: Dante never did opium.
I listened to this for a North Central State College music appreciation class.
Would you cover Shostakovich next? Or maybe The Carnival of the Animals?
I second Shostakovich
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Thanks for this video. It was awesome!
A thing I find interesting is that you published this video with the same opus number as the piece: 14
Hello Berlioz. That was crazy. Thank you though. I have a message from Harriet Smithson:
“You stalker simp!!”
And a message from an audience member Mendelssohn:
“You’ve discouraged me from taking drugs forever.”
That was awesome!
HELL YES NEW VIDEO
Genius. This series is AMAZING!!!!
Heck it's about time
Was waiting for a new video! Can you do one about works of Mahler and Bach too?
I’m going to see this live tomorrow, and having this knowledge is going to make it SO much more fun! This video is the BEST!
I can see why you spent more time than usual it looks quite excellent
Yes
Soooo goood
I miss these, but the ones that are already here are just amazing :’)
You are the best with the animations, history and explanations for young generations! PLEASE ONE ABOUT THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS BY SAINT-SAENS! (big fan here!)
He's Back!
I love the fifth movement of this piece! Thank you for the outstanding video!
Oh hooray!
You have return!
This was lovely piece of music to the very funny animation. I can not wait for your next one...
Truee
I love your videos, I'm so glad you're keeping up with them!
Ophicleide is an important instrument in the music history because it is the forerunner of saxophone. Adolphe Sax supposedly invented the saxophone by experimenting with putting the woodwind (probably bass clarinet) mouthpiece on the ophicleide.
Ophicleide, however, is not a woodwind instrument; rather, it's a form of keyed brass.
@@rynedresbach3446 I have heard that Berlioz used not only the ophicleide, but an even earlier instrument, the serpent, in that movement, to emphasize the brutal, primitive sound of the chant...
@@Lucius1958 Yes, that is correct. However, he later revised the score to call for two ophicleides. They, in turn, have largely become supplanted by tubas in modern settings.
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I heard he was in lots of debt up until the success of this piece - now he Berlioz anything
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