Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Roméo et Juliette Op. 17 by Pierre Monteux (Full) / Remastered
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00:00 Scène d'amour - Part III - Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 (A Dramatic Symphony)
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The text for the vocal passages is by a friend of the composer's, the poet Emile Deschamps, in whose translations Berlioz had first heard Shakespeare in French. For the most part his language is poetically and emotionally inadequate. But the music is at once the most impassioned and the most restrained we have yet heard from Berlioz. For pure orchestral eloquence he never surpassed the magical poetry of sound he found for the love scene. Nor did he, or for that matter, did Mendelssohn with whom he once discussed Queen Mab as material suitable for an orchestral scherzo, ever write a more scintillating or virtuoso display vehicle than the fiendishly difficult scherzo that occupies the classic symphonic position in Roméo.

Throughout the new symphony Berlioz wrote at that high emotional pitch which Gounod ascribed to him in 1882 when the younger, rather milk-and-watery composer was providing an introduction to a new edition of Berlioz letters: "With Berlioz every impression and every feeling was carried to extremities; he only knew joy and sorrow at the pitch of delirium: as he said of himself, he was a 'volcano'. " Gounod had, years before writing this comment, added his own bland tints to an operatic version of Roméo et Juliette that Berlioz would no doubt have included with five earlier versions he aptly labeled pale tapers, three of them being hardly little pink candles," though all, he said, "pretended to light their torch at the great love-sun."

No such pallid sentiment ever aflicted Hector Berlioz. His fear was rather that he might sometime let the true depth of his emotions betray him in his composing. In 1856, he wrote to the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, "Another danger that besets me in composing the music for this drama [Les Troyens] is in the fact that the feelings I am called upon to express are inclined to move me too deeply. This can bring the whole matter to nought. Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood. This is what held me back so much in writing the adagio of Roméo et Juliette, and the reconciliation scene in the last movement. I thought I should never come to grips with it."

The form in which he ultimately cast his dramatic symphony was, au fond, the classic four-movement symphonic structure he revered in Beethoven. But within that framework, Berlioz hesitated at no innovation that would intensify the effect of his chosen medium. Opening instantly upon the atmosphere of strife between Verona's famed warring families, an orchestral introduction sets a scene at whose height brasses in somewhat more dignified manner advise us that the Prince has again intervened between the belligerents. Then the symphony's first voices, those of a small chorus and contralto soloist, begin the narration that explains the agitated instrumental prelude. The chorus continues with the description of Romeo's first sight of Juliet and his visit to her balcony. The contralto's final verses describe the first, rapturous agreement between the ill-starred lovers...

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