| 单词 | Berlioz |
| 例句 | Berlioz was not alone in his obsession with this tragic love story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The person most haunted by Berlioz’s symphonic setting of Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, was Richard Wagner, who used it as a stylistic template for his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1865. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Liszt and Wagner idolised Berlioz, which would explain much that happened in the second half of the nineteenth century, a torrid drama that will unfold in the next chapter. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z While at the heart of Beethoven’s symphony lies a vision of a better civilisation led by a benign deity, Berlioz, a life-long atheist, attempts to evoke the Apocalypse and Final Judgement in sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Berlioz never flinched from reminding whoever would listen of his great troubles and adversities, nor from absorbing those torments in his music, much of which is richly rewarding to listen to. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Heaven knows what the poor woman thought when she eventually heard the Berlioz piece at a Paris concert and read the programme notes, although it didn’t prevent her from marrying him three years later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Despite being French, Berlioz may as well have been German, so keen was he to assume the Beethovean throne. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Listening to Chopin after the helter-skelter psychological drama of Beethoven or the theatrical bravado of Berlioz, it is as if someone has opened a window and let in some fresh, balmy evening air. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Berlioz’s temperament was, to be sure, suited to the fascinations of nineteenth-century opera - doomed love, death and destiny - even if it was not so well suited to the patient, collaborative process of putting on operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The actual affair may not have lasted as long as the opera itself, its incredible five- and-a-half-hour length being one of the many obstacles to its being mounted in its entirety during Berlioz’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Berlioz was present, Wagner for some, Chopin for some others. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Berlioz, meanwhile, works his orchestral magic around this pattern, providing an ever shifting array of harmonic contexts. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z After a pair of crack Berlioz performances at Carnegie this past fall, this team is surely ready to put the old Ludwig van through his paces. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Seattle Symphony music director Morlot, a well-known exponent of Berlioz’s music, stitched up this varied musical fabric into a persuasive whole, giving the singers plenty of expressive opportunities while never allowing the pace to flag. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z After completing two marathon works, Berlioz's Les Troyens and Wagner's The Ring, he had to sign off with repetitive strain injury. The best classical music of 2012: Fiona Maddocks's choice 2012-12-15T20:00:02Z For Berlioz, on the contrary, the Ninth proclaimed the final emancipation of the symphony from its 18th-century restrictions. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z The composer was exploring orchestral colors with new instruments by the musician and inventor Adolphe Sax at the same time as the composer Hector Berlioz, who held Thomas in great esteem. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z In making comprehensible a work not yet comprehended, Berlioz added, Liszt proved that “he is the pianist of the future.” Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z In the event, the future belonged to Wagner, not to Berlioz. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z A song like “four ethers”—which has him riffing over a Berlioz sample—came easily to him. Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Berlioz' great improvement upon Virgil was to empower the women, and Sunday they made powerful mockery of masters and commanders with their pathetic piety. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z I was surprised, too, as I was by the effectiveness of the production, which wove together song cycles by Berlioz and Mahler into an affecting, excellently played and sung reflection on lost love. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z This is part of a general lack of interest by those in charge of the Proms in the music of the classical and early Romantic periods, apart from Beethoven and Berlioz. Letters: Puzzling omissions from Proms programme 2012-07-23T19:59:02Z Baritone Kerry Wilkerson, in Berlioz’s provocative dual role of Herod and the sympathetic father who shelters the fugitive family, spun a smooth and dignified sound. Review | This production of ‘L’Enfance du Christ’ gets tangled up in current events 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: Graham de Lacy If I had to choose the music of only one composer it would be Bach, closely followed by Mozart, whose operas I love passionately, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Rameau; Brahms, Berlioz, Schumann….. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z “I’m not really a fan of the tune, but it was the version by Berlioz, and it was most beautiful I’d ever heard,” he said. The Twists and Turns of ‘La Marseillaise’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Berlioz uses four groups of 8 to 12 brass players, specifying that they be positioned north, east, west and south. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Covent Garden's new staging by David McVicar, done in one evening, as Berlioz intended, instead of the more manageable two, was a valiant effort, and the first in that theatre since 1972. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z What this crowd was getting was not only mainly core classical — the “Tristan” prelude again, as well as one movement of the lively but lengthy Berlioz — but also opera. Review | From the NSO, with love: Noseda and orchestra in Valentine’s Day programs 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Harding’s Berlioz is extreme, caustic and rude, its narrative cast in the most vivid of colors. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Roth approached the Berlioz, meanwhile, with much of the same fury and fire, which curiously managed to diminish its range. LSO/Roth ? review 2011-01-09T21:45:00Z Bangalter read classic treatises on orchestration — the art of how to properly use the different instruments and balance them — by Berlioz and Rimsky-Korsakov. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Sure, Carnegie Hall might have commissioned a work for the occasion, or performed something as ambitious as that Berlioz piece: a 50-minute score for a tenor soloist, two choruses, children’s choir and orchestra. Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z While the recitatives look back to the 18th century, other passages anticipate Berlioz and the grand opera of Meyerbeer. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z He focused on music of the previous hundred years and rarely went back beyond Schumann and Berlioz to Beethoven, Mozart or Haydn. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z A fine conductor in his own right, Mr. Adès also takes the podium for the overture to Berlioz’s “Les Francs-juges,” and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z As often as not, with a world of sound at his command, Berlioz achieves his purposes with utmost simplicity. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z “I remember them taking me to visit the house where Berlioz was born, in the middle of the village,” Morlot said in a recent interview. Seattle Symphony to present the fantastically romantic music of Hector Berlioz 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Next season, ENO stages both Gounod's and Berlioz's versions of Faust. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z Berlioz died before "Faust" caught on with audiences. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z And as Mr. Appleby showed throughout this impressive recital, which included works by Lachner, Schumann, Berlioz, Wolf and Villa-Lobos, he is that special singer who puts words first in performing songs. Review: Paul Appleby Performs ‘Merrill Songs’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z We are, then, still not so far from the orchestra envisioned by Berlioz. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra offers a free preview concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with music by Gluck and Mozart, as well as Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Literally and figuratively Berlioz wrote the book on instrumentation, and another feature of that final summation is a series of chords combining four flutes, high and slender, with eight trombones, low and burly. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z Taken to Paris as a youngster, where he attracted the attention of Berlioz and Chopin, Gottschalk returned to the States in 1853. CD reviews: Cellist Isserlis shows guts in Bach 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The source music is by Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Berlioz, Gounod and, for a football fight song, the Bartlesville High School marching band. Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder: A Gush of Cosmic Rapture 2013-04-11T09:45:05Z On Friday, there is an all-Brahms program; on Saturday, Mahler and Berlioz. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z His conclusion was that Berlioz's formal solution to setting the play was as wrong as his music was revelatory. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z As music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will lead an abbreviated version of the sprawling “Berlioz Variations” to close the season in June at Heinz Hall and on a short international tour. Silenced Voice, Heard Again 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z But Mr. Davis and his forces executed the music at the deliberate, exacting tempo Berlioz indicated. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z Berlioz’s epic opera has rarely been given such luxury treatment as in this magnificent live recording from France. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z But in June, because of “unanticipated technical demands,” seven staged Berlioz performances became four unstaged ones, through Feb. 8. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Lord Hall of Birkenhead, as he now is, quoted Berlioz's remark last weekend in a speech at St Anne's College, Oxford. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z But nobody taught them how to play Berlioz instruments. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Under his leadership, the orchestra became known for more ambitious programming — including works by Wagner, Bartok and Berlioz — and assumed a higher public profile, including regular appearances in New York at Carnegie Hall. Arthur Winograd, Hartford Symphony Music Director, Dies at 90 2010-04-28T02:53:00Z It is always a privilege to hear this visionary Berlioz masterpiece. Music Review: Berlioz’s ‘Troyens’ Returns to Metropolitan Opera 2012-12-14T22:22:35Z The wonderful poise and clarity of that performance invited comparisons with what is generally regarded as the greatest of all versions of Berlioz's song cycle, by Régine Crespin. Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Eté; Herminie; Ravel: Shéhérazade 2012-06-20T14:48:52Z Sunday’s concert, at 2:30 p.m., is completely different, featuring Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev and a George Tsontakis work for English horn and orchestra, “Sonnets.” Classical Music Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And certain composers are best suited to Mr. Davis’s passions, among them Berlioz, Sibelius and Stravinsky. Music Review: Rendering Elgar?s Mercurial Impressions 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z A Doyle’s sale on April 23 will contain arrangements in Toscanini’s bold calligraphy for works by Shostakovich, Berlioz and Mozart, among other composers. Antiques: Paper Mills, Toscanini and Panoramic Art and Photographs 2013-01-24T22:46:54Z Both Berlioz and Mahler were visionaries before their time — an elect pantheon to which Morlot adds Charles Ives. Seattle Symphony sets tone for ambitious season with Mahler choral epic 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Subtitled “An Episode in the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts,” “Symphonie Fantastique” is Berlioz’s musical representation of an opium reverie haunted by its dreamer’s obsession with an elusive, beautiful woman. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" overture was dashed off with apt sparkle. Review: Seattle Symphony program roams from fun to profundity 2011-02-04T19:14:04Z The images conjured by Debussy, Respighi, Berlioz and, more obliquely, Martinu, raised a question in my mind as to whether any sort of subject is "translatable" into music. Symphony's 'Pines of Rome' program: pictures made from music 2012-09-13T20:29:05Z Associated in particular with the works of Mozart, Sibelius and Berlioz, Davis won two Grammys and a host of other trophies, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1980. LSO conductor Colin Davis dies at 85 2013-04-15T11:01:05Z Berlioz was a religious agnostic but a zealous believer in music’s power; in the final choruses of “L’Enfance du Christ,” the simplest means conjure the most transcendent emotion. Review | This production of ‘L’Enfance du Christ’ gets tangled up in current events 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z And there is more Berlioz in store: the great Requiem will be heard in two Seattle Symphony performances Nov. 9 and 11 in Benaroya Hall, with Morlot conducting. Seattle Symphony and tenor Ian Bostridge in top form for Berlioz concert 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z This limited release includes a lavishly produced book with several excellent essays and a review of the opera’s premiere by none other than Hector Berlioz. CD reviews: Exhuming an operatic ‘Herculanum.’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z "This is one of the strongest works by Berlioz," Morlot says. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato approached the work with a bright but flexible timbre and projected its emotional power, as well as the suave surfaces of Berlioz’s vocal writing, with an appealing directness. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-25T00:04:16Z Dutoit opened with a reading of Berlioz's "Roman Carnival Overture" that offered welcome degrees of clarity and scintillation. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z Berlioz, too, was a passionate admirer who devoted two chapters to Spontini in “Evenings with the Orchestra.” Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But mostly the narration sets up six pre-existing shorter works that Berlioz chose from among his compositions at that time. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z The Philharmonic gets in the mix on Sept. 9 with a concert of music by Debussy, Varèse and Berlioz. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z At the start of the next evening, the strings’ quicksilver quality in Berlioz’s “Le Corsaire” Overture indicated a very different concert was in store. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The problem is also partly one of Berlioz's pacing, especially as McVicar resists temptations to invent extra business to quicken the dramatic pulse of the tableau-like sections. Les Troyens – review 2012-06-26T11:22:00Z I was struck by the rich play of iridescent colors Muti found in Berlioz's orchestration. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z On Wednesday, March 15, the velvety-voiced British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly presents an enticing recital of songs by Copland, Berlioz, Schumann and Poulenc, accompanied by the pianist Joseph Middleton, in this inviting setting. Julia Bullock and Sarah Connolly Offer Enchantments New and Old 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Berlioz conceived “Lélio” as a sequel to the symphony and intended the two scores to be performed together. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z In the 18th and 19th centuries, Mozart, Berlioz and other composers wrote serious chamber music for small wind groups. Seattle Wind Symphony to perform Sousa, Bernstein and Nirvana tribute on May 6 2012-05-03T20:20:11Z On his empathy with Berlioz, he said: "He was wonderfully ahead of his time, crazed, had too many ideas, was spectacular, shameless: I can identify with him." English National Opera announces a season to reduce debt 2013-05-01T16:42:59Z And then I saw him in New York a few years ago, when he conducted the New York Philharmonic in a programme of Berlioz and Sibelius. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z Cellini's life was turned into an opera by Berlioz; Vasari's life of Michelangelo was spun into Irving Stone's bestseller The Agony and the Ecstasy, which was filmed with Charlton Heston. The art of illusion 2011-04-06T16:36:37Z Photograph: Adam Gray/SWNS.com At the , Covent Garden they are staging grand classical works created by Verdi and Berlioz that follow the fortunes of kings, queens and valiant warriors. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z "The current building gave a great chance to shine to young Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, as well as to Wagner, Verdi and Berlioz," he said. Mariinsky celebrates 150 years, looks to future 2010-09-17T02:16:00Z The new work was just one element on a program that showcased Whitman, American music and, for good measure, the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz. Review | In Washington’s crowded choral scene, too much is just enough 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z When we started to experience for the first time the Beethoven instruments, and later on the Berlioz and Bizet instruments, it was always for the first time as a collective. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Spontini attended conservatory in Naples but, according to Berlioz, taught himself by studying Gluck’s scores. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Think “Sunday in the Park with George,” think Berlioz’s “Benvenuto Cellini,” which revolves around the casting of that artist’s famous “Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa.” When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage Berlioz's writing is quite challenging, so to be on stage with the orchestra is far more comfortable than to be in the pit. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z A surviving scrap of an early, failed dramatic work, the overture is scarcely top-shelf Berlioz. Music Review: Philharmonic?s French Flavors With Tangy Seasoning 2010-06-04T22:36:00Z Though it is full of surprising subtleties, it represents Berlioz at his most grandiose, a formidable notion in itself: both untidy and glorious. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z If there was a weakness, it was in a tendency to the emphatic, which led to a slightly ponderous, heavy-handed stress of the beats in the last part of the Berlioz. Ludovic Morlot brings a pretty French touch to NSO concert 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z After this experience, hearing the Berlioz Requiem performed in an acoustically faithful concert hall might seem all wrong. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z But in what would be a baffling paradox, were this anyone but Berlioz, the Requiem is subtle and chastened more often than grandiose and bombastic. Music Review: Making a Mighty Sound for Berlioz, but Delicately 2011-02-14T23:29:09Z Aug. 4 with orchestral works by Grieg, Smetana, Bizet and Berlioz. A&E highlights: Seafair finale, music and more 2013-07-24T22:01:22Z He brought structure, architecture and thrilling excitement to Berlioz's music. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z The vast majority of the 19th century's most important conductors were also its composers: Mendelssohn, who revived Bach's St Matthew Passion for audiences in Leipzig, Berlioz, Weber, Liszt, and, above all, Wagner. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z There will also be a number of Shakespeare-inspired classical music performances of works by Verdi, Berlioz and others. Edinburgh Festival to Feature Shakespeare and a 'Menagerie' Return 1462-02-28T05:00:00Z Berlioz described his own opera as “A caprice written with the point of a needle”; Morlot wielded that precise “needle” as his baton. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Reicha’s name also pops up in the biographies of composers who studied counterpoint with him at the Paris Conservatory: Berlioz, Liszt, Franck, Gounod. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z An attraction to melancholy was also innate, if counterbalanced by his increasing admiration for Berlioz. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z He started with an inspirational performance of Berlioz's Les Francs-Juges overture – I had forgotten how wonderful that piece was and immediately started programming it. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z While the well-connected Carpeaux was friends with the composer Charles Gounod, he doesn’t seem to have known personally most of the other figures represented on the program, including Berlioz, Saint-Saëns and Fauré. Music Review: Susan Graham in a Concert Inspired by Carpeaux Sculptures 2014-04-29T20:09:02Z The first, on Friday, takes the Eternal City as its theme, with Bizet’s “Roma,” Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” and Berlioz’s cantata “La Mort de Cléopâtre,” which the French composer entered for the Prix de Rome. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z What was initially supposed to be a revival of Robert Lepage’s video-heavy production of this Berlioz opera is now just four concert performances, but with a fine cast all the same. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z He showed incredible flair for Mozart and Berlioz, which was well known before he arrived. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z One professor told Berlioz he would have preferred “soothing music.” Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Though Berlioz did not live to see it performed complete, “Les Troyens,” an astonishing score lasting more than four hours, was the summation of his work. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z Berlioz' "Les Troyens" -- a five-hour epic opera after Virgil's "Aeneid" with touches of Homer, Shakespeare and music like none ever written before for the lyric stage -- is the grandest French opera. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z For Berlioz, it was a particularly cherished work. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z Overly ambitious, the Berlioz project has been postponed and was replaced by Edgar Varèse's 25-minute "Amériques," a kind of "Rite of Spring" on steroids. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The Seattle Opera production is a unique hybrid of the opera Berlioz wrote, plus new scenes lifted from the Shakespearean play “Much Ado About Nothing,” on which the opera is based. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Berlioz even tweaked the Latin text here and there. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z Some of the things I cherish in Verdi and Berlioz – their outrageous use of space, for example – have their origins in the Vespers. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z When I first heard her sing, in Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict at Boston Lyric Opera, in 1993, I described her as "brilliant" and "intense." Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Straddling all centuries, from antiquity to the second French empire of Berlioz's time to the modern day, the sets are ambitious and effective. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z And no, Berlioz wasn’t kidding when he added, “If space permits, the chorus may be doubled or tripled and the orchestra proportionately increased.” A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z On the international circuit composers like Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini and Strauss have been and will continue to be Ms. DiDonato’s bread and butter, with Donizetti, Berlioz and Massenet increasingly part of the mix. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z The French music critic Paul Scudo, who detested both of them, called Berlioz and Wagner "enemy brothers sprung from Beethoven's demented old age". Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z It was easy to consult the calendar, knowing that Berlioz lived at that address in the 1850s, and to find that Thursday 23 June occurred in 1853. Jacques Barzun obituary 2012-10-29T18:27:35Z Salonen's orchestral writing prepared for the instrumental spectacle of the coming Berlioz symphony. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Twist’s rendering of Berlioz transcends such problems of representation. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z In France we actually tend to think of Berlioz almost as a German composer.” Seattle Symphony to present the fantastically romantic music of Hector Berlioz 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons, the music director of the Boston Symphony, will conduct 12 programs, including symphonies by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz; Poulenc’s “Gloria” with Nicole Cabell; and the Beethoven piano concerto cycle with Mr. Lewis. Violin Stars Will Celebrate Isaac Stern at Tanglewood 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Even if the audience on Saturday afternoon didn’t get Mr. Lepage’s “Hollywood Squares” grid of screens, the company’s enjoyable performance wasn’t untrue to Berlioz’s vision, or at least his expectations. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Berlioz progressed from not entirely disinterested support of Liszt’s creative efforts to outright condemnation. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z A master of atmospheric orchestration, Berlioz creates many memorable moments here, notably galloping horses in the strings and the rising pandemonium on the way to hell, initiated by a shriek from the chorus. 'Faust' bedeviled by phantom alarm, but carried by heavenly voices 2012-06-22T19:35:49Z And if Mr. Zinman’s account of the finale at first lacked the wild, thrashing quality that listeners as far back as Berlioz prized, it grew steadily richer, sharper-edged and more assertive. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z If Beethoven’s experiments in surround-sound broke down the fourth wall dividing musicians and audience, Berlioz tore down the separation between the concert hall and the city. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Last time, at those 2007 concerts at Carnegie, the composers included Berlioz, Chopin, Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovich and Bernstein. The Week Ahead: Dec. 9 — 15 2012-12-09T08:00:06Z “Her music is not as avant-garde as that of Berlioz, for example, but it is so solidly constructed.” Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z "Scheherazade.2" is very much a concerto, but Adams also calls it a dramatic symphony in the manner of Berlioz's dramatically structured symphonic works. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on February 13, 2014, on page C6 of the with the headline: Young Talents Working With Those Comedians Stravinsky and Berlioz. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z His interpretations of Sibelius, Elgar and Mozart – to name but a few – are legendary, but it is Berlioz that I think of first. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z He conducted the orchestra in the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s in 1962. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z Their solos came across as the voices of animated objects in a way that marvelously suited Berlioz’s macabre vision. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Pilavachi said Norman had vague misgivings about the Berlioz; Meher-Homji said her complaint in that work was less about her performance than the sound. Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Driss sarcastically answers that Berlioz is a neighborhood in his hometown, playing on the rich man’s expectation that his friend would not have heard of the composer. ?Intouchables? Is a Magnet for French Moviegoers 2011-12-07T16:27:43Z Hector Berlioz’s last opera, “Beatrice and Benedict,” has been performed since 1862 — but Seattle Opera audiences heard a world premiere of the work last weekend. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Gilbert was in much finer form when he closed the program with a brawny but sensitively shaped account of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.” Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The weather was ideal and the lawn full of picnickers when Mr. Dutoit, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus returned on Saturday evening for Berlioz’s monumental “Requiem.” Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z “Lélio” shows Berlioz feeling his way to new forms of dramatic expression. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Ozawa, a former conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Vienna State Opera, will direct a concert at the Matsumoto festival this summer and an opera, "Beatrice and Benedict" by Hector Berlioz, next year. Japan's Ozawa says recovered from illnesses, full of plans 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The meeting place of his various identities might look something like, say, a silver-haired martial arts master practicing his forms to a selection from Hector Berlioz's opera "Les Troyens." "Star Trek: Picard" challenges us to consider that our icons change, yes even in franchises 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Berlioz believed that vast spaces should be paired with works composed for suitably large forces, and vice versa. Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z Met’s Technology to Get With the Program In the Metropolitan Opera production of Berlioz’s “Troyens” two harnessed dancers representing Dido and Aeneas take flight in an aerial ballet. Metropolitan Opera Embarks on $60 Million Renovation 2012-12-05T23:10:28Z Berlioz, whose lifelong creed was fidelity to the source, commented posthumously on Thomas’s happy-ending “Hamlet” by dying exactly one year after its première. letters: The Singing Hamlet: The French Exception 2010-03-20T04:02:00Z Not always, and most conspicuously not by Hector Berlioz, who brilliantly championed Shakespeare — in music, music criticism and memoirs — from the moment he witnessed “Hamlet” on the stage until the end of his life. letters: The Singing Hamlet: The French Exception 2010-03-20T04:02:00Z Since Berlioz’s time, wind instruments in particular have developed so that their sound more perfectly resembles the human voice. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z One expected him to be equally successful with both composers, but on this showing, he's more at ease with Liszt than with Berlioz. LSO/Roth ? review 2011-01-09T21:45:00Z The interpolated spoken dialogues add both context and complexity to the Berlioz original, which didn’t include the crucial Shakespearean plot twist that nearly derails the wedding of two major characters. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The full score of Tristan, that he presented to Berlioz 20 years later, is inscribed: "To the dear and great author of Romeo and Juliet, from the grateful author of Tristan and Isolde." Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z The 90-minute work for large symphony orchestra, baritone solo, chorus and children’s voices was completed in 2002 on the occasion of the bicentenary of Berlioz’s birth. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z Mr. Davis and other insightful Berlioz conductors have balanced excitement with restraint. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z That was important in the two Berlioz works, with their delicate subtleties of scoring, but no less so in the Verdi opera. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z Even his two incendiary Boston readings of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” his trademark piece, come nowhere close to the maelstrom he inflamed onstage. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z In addition, she won the hearts of such great Gallic geniuses as the poet Alfred de Musset, whose advances she spurned, and the composers Charles Gounod and Hector Berlioz, both of whom were her lovers. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Mercurio, the festival’s music director, picked Johnson to serve as concertmaster of the orchestra’s grand finale concert, a performance of Berlioz. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z As part of its Summer Session series, which cleverly paired Berlioz and Mahler in an earlier iteration, LoftOpera stages selections from the music of Verdi. Classical & Opera Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The week took a sombre turn with the announcement of the death, aged 85, of Sir Colin Davis – a conductor revered for his championing of Mozart, Berlioz and Sibelius. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z Not religious, Berlioz nonetheless selected and set texts in a manner that lends the eternal a personal scale. Music Review: Making a Mighty Sound for Berlioz, but Delicately 2011-02-14T23:29:09Z The symphony was at least as energetic, hard-driven and exciting as the Berlioz. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Though Berlioz eagerly accepted the commission for this work and composed it in just three months, he was a religious agnostic. Music Review: Colin Davis Conducts the Berlioz Requiem at St. Paul’s 2012-06-27T22:51:51Z He is a wonderful musician, and his account of the solo part in Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" was a triumph and a redemption. Review: Seattle Symphony concert best when it came to Beaser and Berlioz 2011-02-18T19:14:04Z Accompanying the added spoken dialogue from “Much Ado,” there’s a liberal infusion of music from other Berlioz works. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Sumptuous yet strangely flat, it is a hybrid work, a kind of oratorio that Berlioz called a “légende dramatique” and intended for concert performance. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z An account of Berlioz’s “Le Corsaire,” from May 1948, is so exhilarating, it is little surprise that the authorities were reluctant to let Munch leave. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Her singing in the Berlioz is slightly more pressed and less plush than it had been with Daniel Barenboim a decade earlier, but she is still fully in command. Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z On offer in May, with the New World Symphony, his prestigious orchestral academy, are Prokofiev, Berlioz, Schubert and premieres by Julia Wolfe and Mr. Tilson Thomas himself. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In love with literature, Berlioz wrote music directly inspired by favorite poets and playwrights, among them Virgil, Byron, Gautier and, above all, Shakespeare. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z This is worth hearing for the Rex Tremendae from the above and Absence by Berlioz. Next week's radio: from Miss Rach to The Essay 2013-06-29T05:00:09Z The society's back catalogue of concerts reads like a history of 19th and 20th-century music – from Berlioz and Boulez and beyond. In praise of … the Royal Philharmonic Society 2013-01-24T21:37:00Z The libretto, taken from Shakespeare and translated into French, has been translated back into English again, with additional lengthy spoken dialogues and monologues that weren’t in Berlioz’s opera. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But the cult of the isolated, divine or demonic genius – of which Beethoven was the first outstanding musical example – was developed to a whole new level by Berlioz. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Then it’s back to London for a Berlioz opera run at the Royal Academy of Music and four more concerts with the London Symphony this side of Christmas. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z Berlioz himself was an important conductor and also wrote a highly influential study of orchestration. Seattle Symphony to present the fantastically romantic music of Hector Berlioz 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z But they programmed two war horses most notable for their familiarity, to both players and audience: Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” which the Philharmonic performed just last year, and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, a distant memory from 2017. Review: After Ambitious Operas, the Philharmonic Exhales 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z This is not the best of Berlioz, in my view... 'Faust' bedeviled by phantom alarm, but carried by heavenly voices 2012-06-23T02:16:03Z The program repeats on Saturday; Friday’s concert is a “Beyond the Score” presentation devoted entirely to the Berlioz. NSO, Barto show that “pleasing new German concerto” is not an oxymoron in new Rihm work 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The Berlioz, performed slowly but with great tenderness, was an exquisite prelude to it all. Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle 2010-08-02T12:44:00Z The subject of François-Xavier Roth's concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was the relationship between Liszt and Berlioz. LSO/Roth ? review 2011-01-09T21:45:00Z She chose pieces by Cilea, Humperdinck, Sibelius and Berlioz for the final. Singer's delight at competition win 2013-06-24T06:28:51Z Also on the program are works by Berlioz and Respighi. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The saxophone, Berlioz thought, is the instrument that most closely resembles the human voice and is “the finest voice we have” for somber works. 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z The orchestra sounded splendid in Berlioz’s Overture to “Benvenuto Cellini” and his “Symphonie Fantastique,” which benefited from the Boston Symphony’s trademark deep, radiant string sound. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z Berlioz had long wanted to set the Latin Requiem Mass, and he got his chance in 1837, when he received a commission to commemorate soldiers who had died in the 1830 July Revolution. Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z Why is this opera, admired by Berlioz and Wagner, and a crucial resource to Verdi, Meyerbeer and many others, so seldom heard? Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z No, soothing music is not what Berlioz was about. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Mahler, Berlioz, Holst, Brahms, Bach, Schumann and Mozart are brazenly conscripted and required to contribute their best bits to the business in hand. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z It is a beautifully written and at times harmonically daring piece that boldly goes against the progressivism of Wagner, while occasionally revealing his influence – as well as looking to Berlioz and Bizet. Le Roi Malgré Lui – review 2012-10-29T13:12:00Z The following year, Berlioz won the prize with a much tamer cantata. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Berlioz’s work is undoubtedly a capacious hodgepodge, but Mr. Stuck made elements of it seem arbitrary. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z It changed the way he plays Berlioz's music, he says. Meet Seattle Symphony's new concertmaster 2012-06-18T05:15:12Z Last, on Thursday, there are Ravel, Berlioz and the New York premiere of George Benjamin’s “Dream of the Song.” 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z After hearing Liszt perform the sonata in 1836, Berlioz wrote of Liszt’s impressive fidelity to the text in a review quoted in the first volume of Mr. Walker’s biography. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Berlioz, giving a Paris address, wrote to an unknown person, promising to send him a new work of his, dating the letter Thursday 23 June. Jacques Barzun obituary 2012-10-29T18:27:35Z Opera music director Kent Nagano began his appointment as music director of the Hamburg State Opera Saturday with a major new production of Berlioz's epic opera, "Les Troyens." Essential Arts & Culture: Beyond the Broad 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The point, for Berlioz, was not to trace the plot so much as to convey the emotional world within it — to catch the essence of the drama rather than its details. Music Review: Shakespeare?s Lovers via Berlioz, via Russia 2010-02-24T23:15:00Z The latest installment of his program “The Composer’s Paintbrush” will include an excerpt from Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” an appropriately stormy tale. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:34:36Z “Beatrice & Benedict,” by Hector Berlioz, opening Feb. 24, 2018: This is a locally created collaborative premiere that builds on the Berlioz framework, adding text straight from “Much Ado About Nothing.” Seattle Opera’s 2017-18 season to include ‘Butterfly,’ Berlioz and a bilingual show for kids 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Berlioz wrote his Requiem in 1837 for a grand public occasion — 73 years before the premiere of Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand.” Seattle Symphony to present the fantastically romantic music of Hector Berlioz 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The conductor allegedly hit William Thomas after the bass singer left the podium on the wrong side during a concert last week at the Festival Berlioz in La Cote-Saint-Andre, southeastern France. Conductor John Eliot Gardner pulls out of future engagements after allegedly hitting a singer 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr Thomas did not appear to be seriously injured, and took to the stage on Wednesday evening, as part of the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André, south eastern France. Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Famed conductor accused of assaulting singer 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z "The first step was to read orchestration treatises from Rimsky-Korsakov or Berlioz and understand the rules I wanted to follow and to not follow and to break. It was a very humbling process, for sure." Life after Daft Punk: Thomas Bangalter on ballet, AI and ditching the helmet 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z He caught the attention of Berlioz and Liszt, both of whom were considerable influences. Review: Is it finally time to take Saint-Saëns seriously? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The symphony will be part of a regular subscription concert series in February that will be conducted by the orchestra’s music director, Jaap van Zweden, and that opens with Beethoven and Berlioz. He died homeless and forgotten. Now gay Black composer Julius Eastman finally gets his due 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The other acoustic test was with a quartet of L.A. trombones playing Wagner, Berlioz and Gershwin. Gustavo Dudamel and Frank Gehry give YOLA's new Inglewood concert hall a sound check 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Bruno Messina, the festival's artistic director of the Festival Berlioz, said in a statement that he was "devastated by the incident", but felt it was important that Wednesday's show took place. Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Famed conductor accused of assaulting singer 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Pacific Symphony plays favorites by Berlioz, Vivaldi and Respighi on a new “Southland Sessions.” What’s on TV This Week: 'I Am Greta,' 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' and more 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Throughout the 19th century, the symphony remained pure music for such classicists as Brahms, but a flexible anything-goes for Berlioz, be it a psychedelic trip or a near-operatic version of “Romeo and Juliet.” Miss the ecstasy and extravagance of Mahler's Eighth? You're not alone 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z “He opened up a new world in music,” said French romantic master Hector Berlioz. Opinion | This holiday season, we can all learn a lesson from Beethoven 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The clouds then descended with Berlioz’s song cycle. Review: With Jaime Martín in the driver's seat, LACO concert is a thrill ride 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z His first season begins Sept. 28 with a concert featuring Anne Sofie von Otter and music by Norman, Berlioz and Beethoven. Jaime Martín has arrived. How L.A. Chamber Orchestra's new leader charts his course 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z I remember being overwhelmed by the concert the night before, when Bernstein conducted Berlioz’s Carnaval Romain, Schumann’s Second Symphony and Shostakovich’s Fifth. John Eliot Gardiner: Britten to Beirut in the back of a taxi - my night with Bernstein 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The Orchestre National de France said it hired Dutoit for Sunday’s Berlioz concert because he was the only conductor available with the necessary expertise. Conductor’s Paris concert protested over sex assault claims 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The Orchestre National de France said it hired Dutoit for Sunday’s Berlioz concert because he was the only conductor available with the necessary expertise. Conductor’s Paris concert protested over sex assault claims 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z After a brisk preamble concerning the composer’s undimmed and near-universal popularity, Walker turns to a purported statement by Hector Berlioz: “Chopin was dying all his life.” Review | Chopin: dismissive, anti-Semitic and a ‘poet of sweet sound’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z With 2019 short on big musical centenaries, the 150th anniversary of the death of Berlioz features prominently. Queens and aces: the best classical music of 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Berlioz, Verdi, and Liszt hailed the opera as a masterpiece. The Dark, Prophetic Vision of Giacomo Meyerbeer 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z His was certainly a unique way of expressing music, historically closer to how Beethoven or Berlioz were described as conducting. 'He was high-brow, low-brow, every-brow!' – the genius of Leonard Bernstein 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In the 19th Berlioz, Verdi and Brahms all used the style wonderfully. Perfected by Bach, fugues have enjoyed an impressive afterlife 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The Berlioz was a knockout, however crummy the sound system. In Mexico City, a famed orchestra is no match for the spirit of 160 student musicians led by Dudamel Getting back to history: Audubon’s worldwide fame overlapped the spectacular rise of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a piano prodigy from Louisiana whose debut in Paris was praised by both Chopin and Berlioz. Opinion | Here’s who — and what — America wouldn’t have had without Haitians 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z On one bookshelf stand bound volumes of the Talmud; on another are boxed CDs of operas by the likes of Berlioz, Donizetti and Mussorgsky. Pennsylvania cantor, once on Schindler’s List, sings on 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z HM: I remember when we talked about Berlioz and you said that his music had openings that a Japanese conductor could exploit, because it was “crazy”. Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa talk music, art and creativity 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The Titans played a conga by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, a slow and intense lyrical piece by Maurice Ravel and a rousing Berlioz march. From rap to Ravel, OSAA orchestra wrap up 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The playwright's influence will also extend to the classical music programme, with Shakespearean-inspired music from Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Berlioz, Strauss and Tchaikovsky. Castle light show featuring Mogwai soundtrack to open Edinburgh festival season - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Hector Berlioz was a pre-eminent music critic as well as a great composer. What is the point of critics? 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z He is buried here under dark marble stone, not far from the crypt of the composer Hector Berlioz. French Artists Will Take Their Irreverence to the Grave 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z SO: The big difference between Berlioz and Mahler is that Berlioz doesn’t put in all these detailed instructions. Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa talk music, art and creativity 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Her first concert will be next September in Cardiff and her first season will include music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rimsky Korsakov and Berlioz. Xian Zhang new BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor - BBC News 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Ozawa will be replaced by American Gil Rose for performances of the Hector Berlioz opera "Beatrice et Benedict" on Aug. 24, 27 and 29. Hip fracture forces ex-Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa to cancel 3 concerts in Japan 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z There’s no better reflection of this rare and fascinating temperament than Hector Berlioz’s wonderful Memoirs. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z She will portray her touchstone role of Cassandra in Berlioz’s epic “Les Troyens” and also will star in the world premiere of an opera based on a classic book and film. Soprano Antonacci goes her own operatic way 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z SO: So we performers are a lot freer when it comes to Berlioz. Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa talk music, art and creativity 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Aucoin, who prefers the lighter, wittier Berlioz, says, “The words should be tinder waiting to be set afire by the music.” Matthew Aucoin, Opera’s Great 25-Year-Old Hope 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z He set to record all the works of Ravel and Debussy, as well as a great deal of the oeuvres of Stravinsky, Hector Berlioz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar. Charles Dutoit, Swiss maestro, Kennedy Center guest conductor for Orchestre Suisse de la Romande 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Berlioz was born into an energetic, patchy, philistine musical environment, and some of the best stories in the book are about his single-handed attempts to restore standards. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z For knowing Muscovites, however, Patriarch’s Ponds is where the Devil arrived in town, with every stray football seemingly becoming Berlioz’s head and every black cat growing to gigantic size. Putin’s Punitive Theater of the Absurd His outlandish production of Berlioz’s opera Benvenuto Cellini opened in London on June 5. Monty Python Has the Last Laugh With Farewell Reunion There are three versions of this opera and we're working from all three, although ours doesn't have any spoken dialogue, which was how Berlioz originally wrote it. Terry Gilliam's opera diary: 'We have a big head problem' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Speaking by phone from his native Trinidad, Mr. Ryan, who will present a program of Fauré, Berlioz and Schumann, said he formed an organization that promotes opportunities for Trinidadians in classical music. | Westchester: A Team of Maestros Takes Hold 2014-03-29T23:55:31Z And then, 50 years later, their paths cross again, and she hasn’t changed, in Berlioz’s eyes, one bit. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Their chance meeting famously ends with a streetcar severing Berlioz’s head, which rolls down the cobblestoned street before the knowing eyes of a giant black cat, Behemoth. Putin’s Punitive Theater of the Absurd The director of Time Bandits and Brazil will helm a production of the opera Benvenuto Cellini, by French romantic composer Hector Berlioz. Terry Gilliam to make opera return 2013-05-01T15:23:08Z The head is bigger than it should be, just like Berlioz's, Cellini's and mine. Terry Gilliam's opera diary: 'We have a big head problem' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z A revival of her production of Strauss's Salome at the Royal Opera House has just closed and a new production of Berlioz's Les Troyens has just opened. The designer going from Gaga to the Olympic closing ceremony 2012-06-29T21:55:14Z The formal formlessness of the new school has placed Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner on the shelf, almost as remotely as are Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z In 1838 he went to Paris, and soon became intimate with Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz and their set, among whom was Hall�, throughout his life an indefatigable performer of Heller’s music. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The director, whose other films include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, said Berlioz was "wonderfully ahead of his time". Terry Gilliam to make opera return 2013-05-01T15:23:08Z Berlioz was in his early 20s when he wrote this and he just threw everything in there, including the kitchen sink. Terry Gilliam's opera diary: 'We have a big head problem' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The research into Berlioz's life and work has largely come through David Cairns's award-winning biography. The designer going from Gaga to the Olympic closing ceremony 2012-06-29T21:55:14Z The Etude entitled Mazeppa is particularly characteristic of Liszt's power of endurance at the instrument, and it exhibits the gradual growth of his manner, from pianoforte exercises to symphonic poems in the manner of Berlioz. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The only exception I can think of just now was Berlioz; there were, no doubt, others, but none who belongs to the truly great ones. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Because of his obviously romantic melodies he was definitely ranged with the most extravagant of the romantics, with Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt; but, as a matter of fact, he is formally closer to Mendelssohn. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Casting his sculpture of Perseus, now in Florence, is the high point of his autobiography and of Berlioz's opera. Terry Gilliam's opera diary: 'We have a big head problem' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z At a time when the works of Berlioz were still unappreciated by the majority of people, David succeeded in making the public take interest in music of a picturesque and descriptive kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Berlioz played up to this romantic programme even better than Liszt. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Gauguin sinned in good company, with Michaelangelo who thought Raphael had plotted against him, and with Berlioz who has left on record his opinion of Wagner's music. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z He, a musical aristocrat pur sang, held aloof, though he permitted himself to make some sharp commentaries on Schubert, Schumann, and Berlioz. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But Berlioz some years later vituperated him from quite another point of view. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z To Driss, Berlioz is the name of a housing project, and Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” is the on-hold music at the welfare office. Multimillionaire Smokes Pot With Thief in French Movie: Review 2012-01-09T01:23:09Z The next time Liszt met him of the high collars he said: 'You see I was not wrong in what I said about Berlioz's admiration of you.' Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Carved in marble, Berlioz and Massenet greeted with a vague stare in their sightless eyes the cosmopolitan crowd that came to the gambling house. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Even Berlioz, whose orchestral ozone revivified the scores of Wagner and Liszt; even mad Hector, with the flaming locks, sounded garishly empty, brilliantly superficial. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Bound with an apricot-colored ribbon and a miniature red ornament, Mr. Berlioz’s confection is made with sunny candied fruit — mandarin, pear, melon, kumquat, orange and fig — made by his mother’s family in Nice, France. | Holiday Desserts: Fruitcakes That Are Destined for the Table, Not the Trash 2011-12-17T01:30:21Z Berlioz well described this charming little work when he wrote of it, “Everything is pretty, piquant, fluent, in this ‘op�ra comique’; there is nothing superfluous and nothing wanting.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z It was he, too, who first produced Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini and many other works, which, though neglected and improperly understood at that time, have since come into their kingdom and received due recognition. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z This monumental work, on which Professor Barzun has been engaged for twenty years, is the first comprehensive book on Berlioz in the English language. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z But the scoring evoked many novel effects; principally, Berlioz and vodka. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Meyerbeer and Berlioz composed the music for the song which was sung at the supper given by the Princess Negroni. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The subject had also inspired Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, to mention only a few, and the enormous success of Gounod’s opera did not deter Boito from writing his Mefistofele. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Berlioz, a half mad Frenchman; Richard Wagner, a crazy revolutionist, a fugitive from Saxony; and the Hungarian Liszt, half French, wholly diabolic—of such were the uncanny ingredients of the new music. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Afterwards he played Berlioz's La Marche au Supplice, that excellent piece which the young musician, if I am not mistaken, composed on the morning of his wedding-day. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Berlioz well defined its true worth when he wrote: "Everything in this comic opera is pretty, piquant, fresh, spontaneous; there is not a note too much nor a note too little." Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z M. H. had known intimately Victor Hugo and Berlioz, "the Victor Hugo of music." My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z Berlioz, a musical Titan, wrestled against fate with a superhuman energy, and, Jove-like, subjugated his hearers with his thunderbolts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Schumann and Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt, Wagner—in a class by himself—are a few that may be cited; not to mention Victor Hugo, Delacroix, Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Stendhal. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Three days later Monsieur Berlioz gives a recital at the Hanover Square Rooms. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z As regards the essentially Gallic interpretations of Berlioz and Gounod there can be no question. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z From my perch—that is the only thing to call it—I applauded with feverish joy the overture of Tannhauser, the Symphonie Fantastique, in short the music of my gods: Wagner and Berlioz. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Esau says all this ill-feeling arises because the Skipper cannot whistle Berlioz’s ‘Faust,’ and is jealous. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z His indebtedness to Liszt was great, but equally so to Weber, Marschner, and Beethoven; his indebtedness to Berlioz ended with the externals of orchestration. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz had been sent by his parents some little time before to study medicine in the French capital. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Berlioz excuses this liberty by stating that in composing his "Faust" he had never intended to bind himself into following the plan adopted by Goethe in his masterpiece. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z I had guessed right, for suddenly I saw under the arch three people chatting together and recognized Berlioz, Ambroise Thomas and Monsieur Auber. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z "Mozart was as much a member of it as Berlioz now is," so declares its founder. A Day with Robert Schumann 2011-06-21T02:00:28.690Z Both Liszt and Wagner learned from Berlioz in this respect. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The “nationalists” Europeanized their music just as much, but they were inspired by very different models—Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz—that is to say, by the spirit of romanticism and program music. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z "Marie Magdeleine" was just the sort of work to please a French audience of twenty years ago, whose acquaintance with Berlioz and Wagner was limited, and whose ideal was bounded by Gounod. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z I was deeply moved and I embraced Berlioz, then my master, and finally Monsieur Auber. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Hector Berlioz has not grown to be fifty without some of the snowy tracks of time, but the volcanic genius is still alive. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Nevertheless, how useless to compare Liszt to Berlioz or Berlioz to Wagner. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z He would go to Paris, and hear Berlioz and other great men. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Berlioz was in the habit of directing every year a grand festival at which were performed extracts from his orchestral works. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z I had the courage to attend the first performance—in the wings, which reminded me of Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ which I had attended secretly. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Berlioz was a very single-minded man, ignorant of all arts of concession or compromise. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z She was a lady of firm opinions, who admired Berlioz as much as she loathed Wagner. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz began his Roi Lear overture at Nice while he was holding the Grand Prix de Rome, but was stopped by the King of Sardinia's police as a spy. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z To take a few of the most notable instances, it is only necessary to mention the cases of Schumann, Wagner, Berlioz, and Bizet. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z I could not pay my way in, but I had an irresistible desire to hear the work, especially as it was a creation of Berlioz's, who aroused the enthusiasm of all our young people. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Popularity was so slow in coming to Berlioz that he died of the delay. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z In musical irony he never had but one match, Chopin—until Richard Strauss; Berlioz was also an adept in this disquieting mood. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz took a single episode for his opera in two acts, and worked it out logically, ignoring everything that had nothing to do with his own plot, which was "Beatrice and Benedick." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Of a different type to the above we meet the Titanic figure of Berlioz, whose influence has been so great over the younger generation of composers and whose orchestral innovations have borne such fruit. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Ambroise Thomas, my beloved master, came towards me and said, "Embrace Berlioz, you owe him a great deal for your prize." My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Every impression, every sensation Berlioz underwent was carried to an extreme. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner are all three as different in conception and texture as Handel and Haydn and Mozart; yet many say Handel and Haydn, or, worse still, Mozart and Beethoven. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Of the work itself Berlioz writes: "It is new, fresh, grand, sweet, tender, surprising." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Berlioz was on the whole distinctly favourable to his young rival's work, and his appreciation, coming from one who had himself sought for inspiration from the same source, acquires thereby additional importance. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Then he said to Berlioz pointing to me, "He'll go far, the young rascal, when he's had less experience!" My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Berlioz was one of the greatest emotional influences of my youth. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z The influence of Berlioz is not marked in this work. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz composed this work, "little opera" he calls it, immensely quickly, and complains that ideas come to him so fast that he has not time to write them down. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Strangely enough, neither Berlioz nor Scudo, judging the work from such different standpoints, were in any way impressed by the musical beauties or dramatic force of the prison scene. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Autograph of Hector Berlioz Hector Berlioz came to Weimar occasionally, and I remember particularly one of his visits, which took place in May, 1854. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The sum total of Berlioz' work is very considerable. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z The Rakoczy March has meanwhile undergone countless revisions, of which the most important is beyond doubt that of Berlioz. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Finally came another influence to drive Berlioz further into the arms of Shakespeare but not of Beethoven—also a foreign one, that of Henrietta Smithson, the Irish actress. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Berlioz states that the score of his "Faust" was composed by him with an amount of facility that he rarely experienced in connection with his other works. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Schubert was spontaneous and inspired, and thus stands in contrast to Berlioz. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Berlioz bares his heart in them, as it were. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Berlioz composed this march while in Hungary, and had it performed there. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz had long been accused by critics and public of using too large orchestras. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z It has been remarked that Gounod has been less successful than Berlioz in his musical depiction of the philosophical side of Goethe's poem. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z A very good article in the Times, on Hector Berlioz; you should read it. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z The musical works of Berlioz may earn him glory. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Its first performance at Pesth led to a scene of excitement which is one of the best-remembered incidents in Berlioz's life. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz finished the overture in May 1831, but it was years before it made any success, and it has never been popular in France. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Previous to this the voice of Berlioz remained that of one crying in the desert, unheeded and scoffed at. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z I prepared for all that by majoring in music in college and writing a senior thesis on the music of Hector Berlioz. 57New York, N.Y. Hey Sprint, Where's Your Customer Service? 2011-02-24T03:42:34Z Oh, dear Berlioz, come and show those wet eyes of yours to my mother. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z He was wrong; and so was Berlioz mistaken in saying that it is by an unknown composer. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z With the notable exception of Berlioz, no composer of the first rank seems to have touched it. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z The question, it may be added, had already been mooted by Berlioz, who expressed himself favourable to the employment of prose in an article published in 1858. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z I prepared for all that by majoring in music in college and writing a senior thesis on the music of Hector Berlioz. 48New York, N.Y. How to Beat the Lottery 2011-02-04T17:27:06Z Best and sincerest good wishes.—Yours always, H. Berlioz. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z The influence of Berlioz and of Liszt is not less striking in his manner of composition. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The overture begins andante with a bold theme for basses, and the whole of the opening is composed in a much more simple manner than one is accustomed to expect from Berlioz. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z According to him, the greatness of Gounod's talent is derived through the study of the works of all the masters, and especially of those of Bach, Handel, Schumann, and Berlioz. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Though Bach never ventured upon such tours as Mozart or Berlioz, for instance, undertook, he loved travelling, and his artistic journeys made him famous throughout Germany, at least as an organist. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z A few days afterwards I went to see Berlioz, and sitting down to the piano, I played the whole passage over to him. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z It is different with Berlioz, whose influence on Liszt was palpable and general, affecting every branch of his art-practice. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z A beautiful cantabile theme soon appears on the oboe, the opening is repeated fortissimo, and then comes the real Berlioz. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Certain it is that this enterprising director must have had strong musical proclivities, for it is to his initiative that the production of Berlioz's "B�atrice et Ben�dict" is due. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Berlioz was a famous composer for the orchestra. Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies 2011-01-22T03:00:15.747Z Such an attempt nowadays, when opinion has so veered round to Berlioz' side, would have every chance of success. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Liszt, an original stylist and a profounder musical nature than Berlioz, had intervened. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz was never popular in Paris or among his own countrymen; but all admitted that the general conception was colossal. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z His style has been described as proceeding from Gluck and Weber, whilst his admiration for Berlioz and Wagner reveals itself in the richness and variety of his instrumentation. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Berlioz was the only one of the group who was born in France. Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies 2011-01-22T03:00:15.747Z Like Beethoven, Berlioz was one of the illustrious sufferers from that painful privilege of being an exceptional man. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Nevertheless Liszt learned much from Berlioz, and it is quite beside the mark to question the greater creative power of Wagner over both the Frenchman and the Hungarian. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The work makes a very interesting contrast to Berlioz, but I suspect that the great Frenchman had a deeper insight into Shakespeare's poem than the Russian. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z An intimate friend and ardent admirer of Berlioz, he enjoys the credit of having been one of the first in France to recognise the genius of Wagner. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z On page 6, a new paragraph was begun at "Berlioz was the only". Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies 2011-01-22T03:00:15.747Z The trials endured by Berlioz when competing for the Grand Prix de Rome were the faithful image, and, as it were, the prophetic prelude to those he was to face all through his career. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z After a lithograph by Kriehuber in the N. Y. Public Library Kriehuber Berlioz Czerny Liszt Ernst A Matin�e at Liszt's The eminently pianistic quality of Liszt's original music commends it to every pianist. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It seems curious that with so magnificent a theme only one composer—Berlioz, of course—should have risen to absolutely supreme heights. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z His admiration for Berlioz has not diminished, whilst his admiration for Wagner has increased. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z On Wednesday afternoon, hours before Mr. Clementi’s death, the two rehearsed works by Berlioz and Beethoven. Private Moment Made Public, and a Fatal Jump 2010-09-30T00:29:00Z Berlioz has put into musical circulation, so to speak, a large number of orchestral effects and combinations which were unknown before his time, and which have been adopted by very illustrious musicians indeed. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z He writes Berlioz that he wished to make the acquaintance of the principal Italian cities and really could hope for no benefiting influence from these flighty stops. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The rest of his life he divided between failure in Paris and success abroad, again very like his so much greater compatriot, Hector Berlioz. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Mendelssohn and Schumann followed, and the valiant chef d'orchestre from time to time introduced the names of Berlioz and Wagner. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z A performance of songs and arias by Handel, Berlioz, Massenet and Wolf-Ferrari by members of the club. 2010-02-05T05:00:00Z I am afraid it was, to a great extent, Berlioz and Madame Viardot. Fragments of an Autobiography They mark the summit of his creative power, and the ripest fruit of that style of programme music that is artistically justified, since Berlioz. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Hector Berlioz made his third unsuccessful attempt on the Prix de Rome with a cantata on this subject. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Her engagement at Paris was due to Meyerbeer, and her success was such as to draw praise even from the extremely critical Berlioz. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Wagner did not once score for the bass drum after he composed Rienzi, but Verdi, Gounod, Berlioz and Sullivan used it effectively. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Berlioz' father does not give him so long a shrift; he allows him three months to conquer fame. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections In 1830, after many repeated failures Berlioz won the much coveted "Prix de Rome" at the Paris Conservatoire, which entitled him to reside three years in Italy at the expense of the French Government. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Berlioz himself says: "I think it deserved the prize." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z In 1862 he organized an amateur vocal association under the name of the Parker Club, which has performed several works by Gade, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Schumann, and others, with success. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers At Weimar, whither he went in 1852, he heard Berlioz’s delightful Benvenuto Cellini, a work which ultimately exercised great influence over him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" In the forties the critics refused to recognize the genius of F�licien David, just as they had refused to recognize the genius of Hector Berlioz. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Between numbers I encountered Berlioz, with whom I exchanged my painful impressions, and I returned home quite tormented over the article I was to write. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It has a monotonous bass throughout, and Berlioz uses all kinds of drums with his usual weird skill. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z “Dramatic symphony, with choruses, solos, chant, and prologue in choral recitative” is the title which Berlioz gives to his “Romeo and Juliet.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers In lithography and painting he exalted such diverse heroes of the different arts as Stendhal, Hugo, Baudelaire, Delacroix, Manet, Schumann, Weber, Berlioz, and Wagner. Artists Past and Present Random Studies Even the noble Berlioz does not escape censure from the artist’s stand-point, while Liszt, who resided there at the time, he had not yet learned to appreciate. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians All in all I see in Berlioz, Wagner, and Liszt, the Virtuoso-Composer, and I would be glad to believe that their 'breaking all bounds' may be an advantage to the coming genius. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z He was one of those Frenchmen, like Berlioz later, whose music was thought little of in Paris but was much admired in Munich and London. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Berlioz has left in his Autobiography an extremely interesting account of the manner in which he composed it. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers But in the second half we have Berlioz and program music.” The So-called Human Race “I dread to remain much longer, perhaps, the only German who has not heard my ‘Lohengrin,’” he writes to Berlioz, in 1859. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians It was performed for the first time at Weimar during the Berlioz week, February 16, 1855, when Liszt was the pianist and Berlioz conducted the orchestra. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It is on the same lines as Berlioz's "Marche Fun�bre" in the same situation. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z After Berlioz, a small fry, indeed, yet not without interest. Ivory Apes and Peacocks “Berlioz,” continued Dr. Dubbe, “instituted the ‘musical reform’ in Germany—the new German school of Liszt and Wagner. The So-called Human Race Berlioz is fond of beginning his largest movements like a kind of round; e.g. his Dies Irae, and Sc�ne aux Champs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" In the Berlioz transcription the composition of Ruzsitska was partially employed. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z But this "feeble sketch" makes a very difficult work to tackle; and if Berlioz had developed it, Heaven only knows where we should end! Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z No one, not even Wagner, o'ertops him in this respect, though Wagner and Berlioz and Liszt showed him the way. Ivory Apes and Peacocks “Take measure sixty-five in Berlioz’s ‘Dance of the Sylphs,’” said Dr. Dubbe. The So-called Human Race There is an amusing but far from convincing assault against Berlioz as a programme composer and, to a certain extent, against Romanticism in general, in the New Laoco�n by Professor Irving Babbitt. Music: An Art and a Language The last evening but one that he called on us, wishing to express his pleasure in G——'s article about him, he very ingeniously conveyed that expression in a story about Spontini and Berlioz. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z There is some sound though exaggerated criticism in these sentences; but Wagner could not have known on what sort of terms Cherubini and Berlioz were. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Despite his spiritual dependence upon Wagner, and in his Tone-Poems, upon Liszt and Berlioz, he has a very definite musical personality. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Berlioz’s music is all on the surface, while Brahms’ music sounds the depths. The So-called Human Race Few of his works bear specifically descriptive titles; and it is well known that he had little sympathy with the extreme tendencies of Berlioz and Liszt. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz is not generally thought a barrel-organ composer, and he bestowed early and particular pains on Moore. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The first number is a drinking-song in praise of the wine of Syracuse, sung by a bass called Somarone, a creation of Berlioz, with a spirited chorus. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z He liked Rimsky-Korsakof and understood the new music better than I, and explained to me that Sadko was too French, too much Berlioz, not enough Tartar. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Not this the ghost, who, as Berlioz put it, stood at the window of his grave, regarding and mocking the world in which he had no further part. Dreamers of the Ghetto Berlioz's early career is of extreme interest to us English-speaking people, because the first strong stimulus to his imagination came from his acquaintance with the dramas of Shakespeare. Music: An Art and a Language Three sonnets by Mr. Theodore Watts, on the “Fausts” of Berlioz, Schumann, and Gounod, have been written specially for this volume. The Industries of Animals An amusing account of this opera is given by Berlioz in his Autobiography. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z She refused to understand Berlioz, flouted Wagner, and mocked Rodin's marble egotisms, the ferocious, white stillness of his Balzac! Melomaniacs Berlioz's overture to "King Lear" given by the Philharmonic Society of New York City. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Berlioz thought, so to speak, in terms of orchestral color. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz, in similar straits, supported himself by singing in the chorus of a second-rate theatre. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History "Composers who have given the world both opera and symphony such as Beethoven, Mozart, Weber, Spohr, Berlioz, always wrote Romantically in their operas and Classically in their symphonies." War Letters of a Public-School Boy Berlioz got a seat in the house, and made his disapproval of the performance very marked by his manner. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Mendelssohn's "Trumpet Overture"; Haydn's theme and variations on "Kaiser Franz Hymn"; and Berlioz's overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" given by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, Theodore Thomas conducting. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Berlioz compares the double basses in the Fifth Symphony to the gambols of sportive elephants, and instances might be multiplied. Music: An Art and a Language Perhaps the only great composers who escaped the direct influence of Bach are Gluck and Berlioz. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" He was welcomed to the intimacy of men like Liszt, Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Balzac and Heine. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) There is hardly an anecdote of Berlioz extant that does not deal with his cynicism or displeasing qualities, therefore we may more or less assume that they pretty-53- correctly reflect the man. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Selections from Berlioz's sacred trilogy "The Childhood of Christ" given by the Symphony Society of New York City. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events To take extreme types for the sake of vivid contrast, let us compare the compositions of Haydn and Mozart with those of Berlioz and Liszt. Music: An Art and a Language It was Berlioz— But Berlioz always was original. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany He was the favorite of a circle of friends Liszt consisting of Meyerbeer, Bellini, Berlioz, Liszt, Balzac, and Heine. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) The critics, one and all, wrote of the old and worthless score that Berlioz had unearthed and foisted upon the suffering public. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Berlioz's "Tristia" given in New York City, by Theodore Thomas; also Rameau's gavotte, tambourine, and minuet, from the opera "Castor and Pollux." Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events To suggest the Feux-Follets Berlioz ingeniously gives the theme to two piccolos in thirds, which are supported by a rich but subdued mass of wind instruments, horns and trumpets, e.g. Music: An Art and a Language This is distinguished from the merely sensuous, as represented sometimes in Berlioz, Goldmark, Gounod, and the like; and the fantastic, inconsequent, and irresponsible, as represented, for instance, in Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel." The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations But if—as Berlioz seems to think—these high prices are to be regretted, we still cannot see how they are to be remedied. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Berlioz was probably one of the least attractive of musicians. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Berlioz's overture to "Rob Roy" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Berlioz's most pretentious orchestral composition is that called in the full title "Romeo and Juliet, dramatic symphony, with choruses, vocal solos, and a prologue in choral recitative, com216posed after Shakespeare's tragedy." Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz, the father of program music, came back from his residence in Italy in 1833, and brought with him his fantastic symphony, "Episodes in the Life of an Artist." The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations We find such an abundance of musical ideas, that we feel Berlioz but spoke the truth, when he said that it would do for twenty others of its kind. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas During the International Exhibition of 1862, where the machine was shown, M. Berlioz offered to dispose of the invention to the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The "Marche Funèbre" from the last scene of Berlioz's "Hamlet" given by the Orchestral Club, Boston. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events We should, furthermore, always remember that, if Berlioz's poverty of harmonic effect is sometimes annoying, he never falls into the humdrum ruts of those who have had a stereotyped academic training. Music: An Art and a Language As an example of the thoroughness that has given her such unimpeachable knowledge of her subject, may be mentioned the fact that she made her own translation of Berlioz and Gavaërt. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions This explains, why Berlioz' compatriots esteemed, but never liked him; he was too scientific. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The following sketch of the first performance of the Requiem, taken from Berlioz's Autobiography, will be found interesting in this connection. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Berlioz's "Te Deum" given by the Oratorio Society in New York City, at the opening of Carnegie Hall. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Liszt is akin to Berlioz in many respects; we feel the same natural tendency to derive musical inspiration from external sources, poetic, pictorial or from the realm of Nature. Music: An Art and a Language Books have been devoted to the history of Shakespeare's music, and such surveys include nearly every English composer of note, and also Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Ambroise Thomas, Saint Saëns, Rossini, and Verdi. The Facts About Shakespeare Berlioz made the roaring goldsmith the hero of an opera, and it is not doubtful that he was in complete sympathy with his subject. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Künstlerleben:" "Hector Berlioz does not belong to our musical solar system; he does not belong to the planets, neither to the large nor to the small. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers He is seized by hallucinations, haunted by sounds: the hysteria of Schumann, the morbid exaltation of Berlioz, communicate themselves to him in the music that besieges his brain. Figures of Several Centuries For Liszt, though not perhaps so brilliant and sensational as Berlioz, was equally a great master of orchestral coloring and poetic suggestion by means of appropriate instruments; often, too, more delicate and refined. Music: An Art and a Language These stops greatly excited the ire of Berlioz, who declaims against them in his celebrated work on orchestration. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments Berlioz, therefore, had good warrant for his work. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation As to its sacred form, it is as far from the accepted style of church music as Berlioz's or Verdi's requiems. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers At Easter Berlioz is coming to Dresden to conduct a couple of concerts in the theatre there. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Berlioz likewise possessed great range of emotion—though he rarely touched the sublime; a power of laying out works on a vast scale, and, in general, of achieving with unerring certainty the effects desired. Music: An Art and a Language Still more evident is the influence of woman upon music in the case of Hector Berlioz. Woman's Work in Music That Monsieur Hector Berlioz may possibly have known something of his trade and been withal as honest a man and artist as himself seems never to have occurred to him. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation As a teacher in later life he was very celebrated, among his pupils being the greatest of French masters, Berlioz. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present I have just received a few lines from Berlioz. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians That of Berlioz, for example, was quite a new phenomenon; and as for the working principles of musical composition, they are as much subject to modification as any other form of human experimentation. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but his sensational style did not win favour with the classical Cherubini, and the young man was forced to work against many difficulties. Woman's Work in Music Berlioz is revealed in them for one of the race of the giants. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Notwithstanding the fact that Paganini lost money in Paris, he presented Berlioz with 20,000 francs, in order to enable him to pursue his career as a composer unhampered by financial distress. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Berlioz has taken the score with him to Paris from Weimar, in order to make some alterations and simplifications in it. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Into this maelstrom of revolution, Berlioz—he of the flaming locks, "that hairy Romantic" as Thackeray calls him—flung himself with temperamental ardor; for he was a born fighter and always in opposition to someone. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz tried to make all his music tell a story, and he believed in the theory that tones could be made to represent ideas in a much greater degree than is usually supposed. Woman's Work in Music Berlioz was not only a great musician and a brilliant writer; he was also a very interesting and original human being. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Meanwhile Berlioz was unable to secure recognition in Paris. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Behind the piano stands Berlioz, and next him is Czerny, the celebrated music teacher and composer, and the teacher of Liszt. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians As Berlioz is, if possible, even more idiomatic for the orchestra than Chopin for the pianoforte, no conception of the real quality of his message can be gained from transcriptions, however good. Music: An Art and a Language Among the tasks she set for herself was the translation of the books on orchestration by Berlioz and Gevaert. Woman's Work in Music As I understand the rank and jargon of modern criticism, Berlioz is called the father of modern instrumentation. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Mendelssohn, who found Berlioz most interesting as a man, had no admiration for his music. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present As for Berlioz, we find Liszt in 1854 endeavouring to aid him in securing a production of "Benvenuto Cellini." Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Of course whatever Berlioz writes for the orchestra sounds well; of that there is no doubt. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz at once fell in love with her, but it was some time before his needy circumstances allowed him to lay his suit before her. Woman's Work in Music Liszt, I think, would have had nothing to say if Berlioz had not preceded him. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The sole recognition which Berlioz had in France was the librarianship of the Conservatoire, with a modest salary, and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Berlioz speaks in high praise of Paganini's genius as a composer. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II This is done for purely theatric purposes and certainly makes our flesh creep—as Berlioz no doubt intended. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz, however, does not let his hero rest in the grave, but adds a fifth movement to show him in the infernal regions. Woman's Work in Music He loved the fantastic, the bizarre, the grotesque—for the latter quality he endured the literary work of Berlioz, hating all the while his music. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Berlioz was above all the composer of the grandiose, the magnificent. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Hector Berlioz speaks with enthusiasm in the Journal des Debats of the two grand concertos which have just appeared, one of them containing the marvellous rondo of the campanella. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II The body of the work is based on the Italian national dance, the Saltarello; and with this rhythm as a steadying background Berlioz achieves a continuity sometimes lacking in his work. Music: An Art and a Language But Berlioz carried his idea to extremes, and fairly earned the half-reproach of Wagner, who said of him: "He ciphers with notes." Woman's Work in Music But the Berlioz ball had to be kept a-rolling; the formula was too easy; so Liszt named his poems, named his notes, put dog-collars on his harmonies—and yet no one whistled after them. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Berlioz instrumented several pianoforte compositions for orchestra, the best known of them being Weber's "Invitation to the Dance," and "Polonaise in E flat." A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Berlioz says that it takes a long time to discover musical Mediterraneans and still longer to learn to navigate them. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The canon really tells and shows that Berlioz, as is often alleged, was not altogether lacking in polyphonic skill. Music: An Art and a Language Vanno ran down the steps to the Casino terrace, coming upon it near the clump of nymphlike palms, and the marble bust of Berlioz that Mary could see from her window. The Guests Of Hercules The idea struck him, for he was a master of musical snippets, that Berlioz was too long-winded, that his symphonies were neither fish nor form. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The entire work was never completed, and the "Te Deum" had its first and only representation in Berlioz's lifetime at the opening of the Palace of Industry, April 30, 1855. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present But it is chiefly in the "Requiem" that Berlioz revealed himself in all the grandeur and might of his being. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Berlioz, as we have seen, had composed a number of orchestral works; but, from the standpoint of absolute music, even these rather beg the question as they are so extremely programmistic, dramatic or even theatric. Music: An Art and a Language Berlioz welcomed him gladly, and furthered his cause by eloquent writing as well as by obtaining him a hearing in Paris. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers When he wrote for orchestra the hand is the hand of Liszt, but the voice is that of Hector Berlioz. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques In this work, a part of the text of which consists of the Latin hymn "Dies Iræ," Gounod contrives to repeat certain of the sensational effects of Berlioz's work. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present So, taking hints from the Ninth of Beethoven and the "Roméo" of Berlioz, Mahler boldly planned symphonies that could stand alone and fill an evening. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers This peculiar quality of Berlioz was partly the result of his fiery excitable temperament and partly the reactive effect of the environment in which he found himself. Music: An Art and a Language In my idea Berlioz was not really the founder of modern orchestration as some have asserted. The Way of Ambition This should help to combat the current opinion that Berlioz is dry. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 Berlioz had been the founder of programme music, and his leading works had been produced during the second quarter of the century, but their full force was not recognized until later. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Many persons pretend that Berlioz wanted a knowledge of harmony and counterpoint. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Certain blemishes in Berlioz's music are obvious and need not be over-emphasized. Music: An Art and a Language |
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