For students analyzing this for music theory, i made a cheat sheet: 0:00 - Spooky stuff 1 0:44 - Spooky stuff 2 - bit higher 1:18 - Oh, thaaat's what the clarinet students are always practicing 1:28 - Dance break 1:44 - Bassoons laughing 1:56 - callback to movement 1. because it's the girlfriend. but now she's scary. 2:25 - witch jig sneak preview 2:50 - your delivery is here 3:16 - basically the year 2020. also bubonic plague throwback. 4:02 - whoops 4:55 - drumroll 5:06 - the jig is up 6:32 - jig again but spooky 6:49 - steve bannon trying to sneak in unnoticed 7:05 - gathering jig storm 7:40 - all together now 8:16 - spider jig 8:37 to End - your year in review

For more enjoyment and understanding: 1. He wrote this symphony in inspiration of his love and fantasy about an opera actress that he fell in love in the first sight, who at first did not give a damn about this young student who kept on sending her letters. 2. There are 5 stories in this symphony and this is the 5th story. The stories are as follows: Dream and Enthusiasm - Dance Party (Ball) - Rural Landscape - March toward the Scaffold - Satan's Dream in his Party Night : Rondo of the Witch. 3. Berlioz, the composer, started his music study later than his peers and had much trouble during college life, but with all the despair, he still studied even harder and composed this amazing symphony in his young age. Very famous composers in his time (like Paganini, Chopin) noticed his works as well. 4. Thanks to this song, the actress that he loved opened her heart to him and they eventually got married (although the marriage was not happy and ended in divorce). 5. This symphony is significant in that Berlioz invented a method called idee fixe. This means a single topic is displayed in all five stories. Many composers learned this method afterwards. 6. He makes use of so many different instruments and also weird techniques (e.g. plays the violin with the back of the bow). Try to take note of these variances and unique combination of instruments. Hope this helps some ppl to fall in love with the music even more :)

one of the most brilliant pieces of music ever composed

3:15 First call 3:37 Second call 4:05 Prelude-Response 4:15 Third & definitive call 4:34 Fourth & last call

It's hard to believe that somebody's torment in the afterlife could be so enjoyable!

At 3:16, the incredible Gregorian Chant melody: Dies Irae is magical. Berlioz genius shines thru. This thematic element has appeared over and over in classical as well as modern music.

Bernstein literally makes everything he conducts sound "better" than any other version....absolute maestro...this video is amazing :)

This was written in 1830! That's like miles Davis releasing a dubstep track in 1952!

Wish me luck in analyzing this...

I think Tim burton should consider symphonie fantastique for a film

As a young musician, Berlioz fell in love with a girl. However, his love becomes frustrated and after suffering from despair, he has a strange and fantastic vision in which he kills the woman. In the dream, he is condemned to death and led to the guillotine. His head is chopped off, and the demons and monsters who gather for his funeral unleash a diabolical celebration. His beloved appears, but she has taken on a hideous form. She is delirious with joy as she joins the demons and witches in a wild dance.

This shit is straight fire

Bernstein and the orchestra absolutely nail this piece. This music shouldn't feel comfortable and shouldn't be 'played safely', without taking any risks. It needs to be played as close to the edge of a frenzy as possible without actually spilling over. Bearing in mind this was recorded for an LP (now on CD) I suspect the rehearsals were longer than is usually the case....and it shows.

One of the best compositions ever. Berlioz is amazing

I absolutely LOVE this conductor! Bernstein is amazing! He knew this symphony inside and out conducting it without music!

What a phenomenal performance. What I wouldn't give to see this performed live!

I was an 18 year old tuba player in 1997, having the time of my life performing this

Beriloz, Symphony Fantastique 5th Movement, 1830 Style: Romantic Genre: Program Symphony Form: Free Form

Listening for my homework lol

Who is here for a class assignment?

Juste écouter le vent surgissant par bribes légères , la tempête onctueuse dès lors que surgit l'ouragan merveilleux, à ce que les oreilles inspirées de respirations soient enfin déchirées de saignements cuivrés. Vous inoculent un transport, celui du ravissement.Ou le chaos de la joie, mise en cloche. La plus belle expression de la musique. Une oeuvre en démons et merveilles, toutes turbulences, sa modernité accomplira le reste. Pour notre modeste éternité. Succomber en vibrations. Votre corps à l'unisson s'extirpe de sa chape pesante, s'envole, délivré. Frénésies. Jubilations extrêmes.

Franz Liszt enjoyed this, and so did I. Bernstein refers to this symphony as; - he 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."

I have tremendous respect for all musicians, more so when I witness them performing this very emotional piece. btw, The Shining brought me here. Stanley Kubrick loved classical music and always perfectly weaved them into his films.

Played this with the Symphony many moons ago still one of my fave pieces...

What a great conductor!

This is incredible, both the music and the orchestra and of course the great Bernstein.

Sleeping with the enemy... 1991 with Julia Roberts and this piece of music in the movie...

there are 3 short instances where all the strings play the same note in harmony for a few seconds. these occur at 5:06, 5:55 and 7:39 those are my favorite parts of this piece. i feel a wave passes through the orchestra on those moments and i absolutely love the sound all the strings make together :)

We're playing this in orchestra right now. This piece is hell (literally lol)

The entire work is beautiful but my absolute favorite is the part starting at 3:10

3:16 the moment we all Kubrick fans waited to. 🙏🏼 thanks

Love the authentic bells being used !

Fiery and wild ...but they never lose the structure and proper tempo...and the bells are superb! First rate Berlioz by any standard on now one of my favorites of this movement...

8:15 Yeah. That’s the sound! (from TwoSetViolin)

The instrumentation in this symphony is godly.

Am I the only one who gets chills when Dies Ire starts? SOOO COOL!! I love it when the violins come laughing on top of the brass :)

At 0:32 I just can't help but think of Star Wars!

Aside from the actual music, which is great!, this is some of the best, most-prepared camera work I've ever seen for a concert. For instance: the picc solo that goes to 3rd horn (I think?) very short solo - instant cut to the correct player. Very smart. (Also, I don't remember Bernstein ever having a beard - so this is a great find all around!)

The movement that would've killed Mozart from a heart attack if he hadn't been dead already.

Dies irae, dies illa.

shining !! :)

Love that prickly collegno (literally means "on the wood) by the violins.

Le meilleur mouvement de cette symphonie. Bravissimo !!!

3:17 =The Shining 😱

This playlist is fantastic, I have been listening to it whilst typing my assignment... 1700 words in no time. Thanks for putting together such a great playlist.

Wsc 2017 wassuh

Listening this for homework :)

so ahead of its time, use of instrumentation, timbre, orchestration, themes that could easily be 20th century

3:15 mark = every hair standing up on my entire body Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

40年くらい前になるか・・バーンスタイン若いころNYフィルのこの曲であの鐘の音はインパクト有ったなー！！デジタルで聴くとリアリテイー 100倍！！涙目です！。！今回KZfaqで見つけて感動！！！！ バーンスタイン・・品格ある　おじいちゃんに成ってる💛

Superbly played, superbly conducted, superbly filmed.

by far my favorite movement of the symphonie fantastique.

Anyone who says that classical music is "boring" ought to hear this piece!

Dies irae?

Great Berlioz, great Bernstein! what an intensive performance from the French forces! Thank you for this precious post..

2:50 Chills! I love this piece!

this is beautiful. i love it.

Extraordinario, verdaderamente una fantàstica version de la inmortal sinfonìa de Berlioz. Aqui en toda su insuperable imaginaciòn musical . Excelente interpretacion.

I've got that shining feeling you only get when high in the Rockies at midnight.

Humans are capable of such of beautiful and complex things...

Berstein and Berlioz are my favourites from MUSIC CLASS!!!

Have played this!! Love it!

Shinning...

Wow..Love this!

this is the idol for all songs the best.....EVER. im a music nerd

what a masterpiece i dropped a tear for this

This is so fucking epic. It's like the best bits of all epic songs put together, and then improved. And it just gets better the more you listen to it.

Люблю эту симфонию.

Magic… I live it 🥰

I was playing solitaire whilst listening to this when I accidentally looked at the video and saw Ian McKellen (Gandalf) conducting. After a moments pause I realized that the conductor was not actually Mr. McKellen, but for a brief time, I felt that he was 3000% cooler than I had previously thought.

This is amazing!

4:45 and on - Lenny looks like he's having so much fun! :)

I just love the theme at 3:17. So commanding!

Ruidos extraños, gemidos y risas sarcásticas... sin desmerecer el resto en absoluto, el primer minuto es simplemente FABULOSO.

The best of the best.........

Brings me to tears every time!

This is an absolute masterpiece & like 90% feels like the climax of the song, i really need to see this in a film like a dark twisted alice in wonderland

Insuperable interpretación!!!!

Grandiose ! et intemporel 👏👏👏👏👏

incredible movement!!!

Amazing 👌

es algo explondoroso, maravilloso,,, sin palabras

Cara Sinfonia Fantastica, sei stata il primo disco (78 giri) ricevuto in regalo tanti anni fa, che mi ha aperto alla musica classsica e sei rimasta veramente affascinante fino ad ora con le stupende esecuzioni di Leonard Bernstein e la tecnologia strabiliante di KZfaq. Grazie

This is good,I like it really!

Tres belle, merci

I listen to this about 4 times per year. Always so dumbstruck!

Playing the Eb Clarinet part this semester at sfa and I'm so excited

I like finding all the little interjections where the Dies Irae shows up. I think it's cool when different songs are brought into these kinds of pieces.

Not a student, just a rockerboy tripping balls on acid and listening to this banger

Utter brilliance! I absolutely LOVE this piece! It is sometimes dismissed by music snobs as a "crowd pleaser", but so what? It's still great! I first heard this piece as a high school student just beginning cello studies and just beginning learning to read music. I found a conductors score in an old bookstore and followed along. INCREDIBLE!!! Finally, REAL bells in the last movement instead of glockenspiel with the wrong overtones. Berlioz wrote great parts for tympany. I didn't know there were so many in the 3rd movement.

3:16 THE BEST PART

The greatest love song ever written

GENIAL!!!

2018 anyone?

Maravilloso 3,16 BSO el Resplandor.

Meraviglioso

+Kate Eldridge the idee fixe comes back in 1:18 and 1:36 with the clarinets/winds but it is transformed from its original presentation in the first movement.

I went to watch this one live, this mvt is plain chilling

Magnificent

Movement 5, Finale: Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz Program symphony 1830 Program: Autobiographical - inspired by composer’s infatuation with actress Harriet Smithson Prose program narration Young musician falls in love Sees her at a ball Realizes she may be spurning him Executed for murdering her Sees her in hell transformed into a witch (“1. “ He sees himself at a witches’ sabbath, in the midst of a hideous gathering of shades, sorcerers and monsters of every kind who have come together for his funeral. Strange sounds, groans, outbursts of laughter; distant shouts which seem to be answered by more shouts. The beloved melody appears once more, but has now lost its noble and shy character; it is now no more than a vulgar dance tune, trivial and grotesque: it is she who is coming to the sabbath… Roar of delight at her arrival… She joins the diabolical orgy… The funeral knell tolls, burlesque parody of the Dies irae,** the dance of the witches. The dance of the witches combined with the Dies irae.” Musical/Style characteristics Unconventional structure Extended intro m. 1-39 “Trivial and grotesque” version of idee fixe on Eb clarinet (vs orig lyrical violins and flutes) - four square and common M. 127 contrasting section based on Dies Irae M. 241 - “Witches’ Round Dance” M. 414 - Dies Irae and WItches Round dance in counterpoint Calls for orchestra with piccolo, Eng horn, Eb clarinet, 4 horns, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, 2 ophicleides, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, bells, 2 harps Odd sonorities M. 8-9 flute glissandos Strings tapping w wooden part of bow (col legno) m. 444