Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
I'm so happy to share this live episode of Sticky Notes that I did with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Denmark back in October! This episode covered Berlioz's remarkable Symphonie Fantastique - the ultimate symphonic thrill ride. Join the orchestra and I as we talk our way through this symphony, from it's opium fueled back story, to its innovative structure and style, to the dreams and reveries of the first movement and the sadistic glee of the final two movements, and a whole lot more. Thank you to the Aalborg Symphony for their participation in this project, and I hope all of you listening have had a wonderful holidays and a Happy New Year! See you in the New Year with all new episodes from Beethoven's Opus 135 String Quartet to Smetana's Ma Vlast and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:14.5 | My name is Joshua Widerstein. I'm a conductor, and I'm the music director of the |
| 0:17.8 | Orchestra Nacional de Lille, and the chief conductor of the All Borg Symphony. |
| 0:22.0 | This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, |
| 0:25.0 | works in the field, |
| 0:26.0 | where it's just getting ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music. |
| 0:29.9 | Before we get started, I want to thank all of my Patreon sponsors |
| 0:32.7 | for making Season 10 possible. |
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| 0:42.8 | or review on Apple Podcasts. It is greatly appreciated. So for this end of the year episode, |
| 0:49.6 | I'm really excited to share with you a live edition of the show that I did back in October on |
| 0:55.1 | Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique with the Allborg Symphony Orchestra. This was a really fun project. |
| 1:00.9 | We've been doing a few of these live podcast concerts in Allborg. We're going to be doing another |
| 1:05.7 | one in January on Mahler's Fourth Symphony, which I will be sharing here. This is a little bit different from the show that I have about Berlioz |
| 1:14.0 | The Symphony Fantastique, because there are just so many stories to tell. |
| 1:18.1 | There's so much music to explore that I really changed, I think, some things for my previous |
| 1:22.9 | episode on this piece. |
| 1:24.1 | So I really hope you enjoy this, even if you have listened to my non-live show before. |
| 1:30.5 | Now, when we do these live shows, we do a complete performance of the symphony. |
| 1:35.6 | So I cut that part off, and so the podcast part ends a bit abruptly. |
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