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.
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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 17:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3