00:00 Introduction
2:11 Hungarian March
8:05 Ruddigore No.2
11:10 Ruddigore No. 3
14:25 Ruddigore No. 4
17:40 Ruddigore No. 10
19:57 Va Pensiero
24:30 Concluding Commentary
26:18 Symphonie Fantastique
31:40 Credits
Directed by Martha Placeres with Mark Thomsen
Featuring music of Berlioz, Verdi and Gilbert & Sullivan
The arts endure here at FSC and we are pleased to have the opportunity to share this collection of innovative and emotional representations virtually.
The “March to the Scaffold” is the fourth of five movements in the Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz. The symphony, as a whole, tells the story in music, of a troubled young artist and his quest for his true love. The fourth movement takes on a nightmarish character: having taken opium, the young artist dreams that he has killed his true love and is about to be executed for his crime. This movement thus depicts the artist’s forced march to the scaffold.
In his 1846 concert-theater piece The Damnation of Faust, Berlioz wanted to introduce his brilliant orchestration, the Hungarian March. This was named for Ferenc Rákóczy II, the leader of an uprising at the beginning of the eighteenth century in the Hungarians’ endless struggle for independence from Austria.
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