Sunday, January 15, 2012

Music Set #204 - Berlioz - March to the Scaffold

[ɛk'tɔʁ bɛʁ'ljoːz] [BARE-lee-O’s] (1803-1869)


The Fantastic Symphony has 5 movements:
1.      Rêveries - Passions (Daydreams - Passions) – day-dreaming for love
2.      Un bal (A ball) – meeting the dream girl
3.      Scène aux champs (Scene in the Country) – passion of love; pain of failure; killing the girl
4.      Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold) – for the crime of killing 
5.      Songe d'une nuit de sabbat (Dream of a Witches' Sabbath)



Mvt.4 - March to the Scaffold

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