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Orchestral colours

Tom Service joins the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pascal RophΓ© to explore music by Berlioz, his friend Liszt and by the 20th century French composer Henri Dutilleux.

Tom Service joins the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pascal RophΓ© to explore music by Berlioz, his friend Liszt and by the 20th century French composer Henri Dutilleux.

Recorded in Maida Vale Studio 1 on 6 July 2018.

Berlioz: Carnival Romain
Berlioz: La Captive *
Liszt: Les Preludes
Dutilleux: Timbres, espace, mouvement [La nuit etoilΓ©e]

Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo soprano*)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Pascal RophΓ© (conductor)

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 celebrates the 150th anniversary of the death of the great French composer Hector Berlioz with a weekend of live and pre-recorded concerts from across the UK by all the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Orchestras and Choirs.

Tom Service finds out more about Berlioz's skills as an innovative composer of orchestral music; and traces Berlioz's influence on Liszt, a great admirer of the Frenchman's music who championed and introduced much of Berlioz's orchestral music to a wider public via his piano arrangements. Liszt had been at the premiere of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, an experience which may have sparked him twenty years later to create a new musical form, the Symphonic Poem performed today in Les Preludes.

The tidal current of Berlioz's brilliance has exerted its pull across the generations and, moving forward a century, Tom talks to conductor Pascal RophΓ© about another Berlioz devotee Henri Dutilleux. That's before a performance of Dutilleux's essay in colour Timbres, espace, mouvement [La nuit etoilΓ©e], which was inspired by Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night.

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sat 16 Feb 2019 17:00

Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Carnaval romain - overture Op.9

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pascal RophΓ©.
  • Hector Berlioz

    La Captive (Reverie) Op.12

    Singer: Marta Fontanals-Simmons. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pascal RophΓ©.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les Preludes - symphonic poem after Lamartine S.97

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pascal RophΓ©.
  • Henri Dutilleux

    Timbres, espace, mouvement (La nuit etoilee)

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pascal RophΓ©.

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 Feb 2019 17:00

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