Berlioz, "Symphonie Fantastique"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Desecration of Berlius Grave and of the Symphony
On almost every notebalios is actually portraying skeletons dancing on top of his grave. Here's another great trick and innovation of berlios. He tells the string players to play with the wood of the bow. A technique called coleno creating that clattering noise. And he asks the winds to play with fast trills. Finally, we roll away to the end of the symphony, the witches and monsters hysterically laughing away,. bloodthirsty and unrepentant to the very end.
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