Symphonie fantastique

Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d’un artiste … en cinq parties (Fantastical Symphony: An Episode in the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts) Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romanticperiod. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December 1830. Franz Liszt made a piano transcription of the symphony in 1833 (S. 470).

Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests Berlioz composed at least a portion of it under the influence of opium. According to Bernstein, “Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral.”

In 1831, Berlioz wrote a lesser-known sequel to the work, Lélio, for actor, orchestra and chorus.

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Beatrice Rana

Beatrice Rana (born January 22, 1993) is an Italian pianist.

Born in Copertino, Rana began studying piano at the age of 4, and made her orchestral debut at 9, performing Bach’s Piano Concerto in F minor. She studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover and Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music.

In 2011, Rana won the first prize and special jury prizes at the Montreal International Piano Competition and in 2013, won the silver medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Rana is currently an exclusive recording artist for Warner Classics. In 2018, Rana was nominated for the Classic BRIT Awards in the “Best Female Artist of the Year” category for her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

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НОВО УТРО / Настани / Makedonska Filharmonija

27.09.2018 [Четврток] @ 20:00
Редовна програма / Концертна сала
Солист: ЛУКА ДЕБАРГ
Отворање на концертна сезона
Програма:
С. Прокофјев: Концерт за пијано и оркестар бр. 2
Х. Берлиоз: Фантастична симфонија, оп. 14

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Glenn Gould – Wikipedia

Glenn Herbert Gould[fn 1][fn 2] (/ɡuːld/; 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century.[1] He was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach’s music.

Gould rejected most of the standard Romantic piano literature by Chopin, Liszt, and others, in favor of Baroque, Renaissance, late Romantic, and modernist composers. Although his recordings were dominated by Bach and Beethoven, Gould’s repertoire was diverse, including works by Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd, and such 20th-century composers as Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. Gould was well known for various eccentricities, from his unorthodox musical interpretations and mannerisms at the keyboard to aspects of his lifestyle and behaviour. He stopped giving concerts at the age of 31 to concentrate on studio recording and other projects.

Gould was also a writer, broadcaster, and conductor. He was a prolific contributor to musical journals, in which he discussed music theory and outlined his musical philosophy. As a broadcaster, Gould performed on television and radio, and produced three musique concrète radio documentaries called the Solitude Trilogy, about isolated areas of Canada.
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