'He's unpredictable; he has his way of playing the orchestra, hearing the orchestra – it's his temperament: nothing is ever the same, he never stops searching." This could be a description of Valery ...
THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz 1 is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As a ...
The most innovative symphony of the 19th century was born from diabolical passions Something a little different this week: our symphony is Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a piece that lays legitimate ...
Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique is truly fantastic, says Jane Jones. I think this really is a fantastic symphony – not only in name. This was the first of four symphonies that Berlioz ...
OF Hector Berlioz as a musician, others have spoken with an authority to which I cannot pretend. His glory is now complete ; even the Parisians, after having treated him as a madman, overwhelmed him ...
Director Terry Gilliam gestures on the red carpet for his movie "The Zero Theorem" at the 70th Venice Film Festival in Venice September 2, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi By Michael Roddy LONDON ...
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When London’s Drury Lane theatre reopens this time next year following renovations, it will be with a run of Disney’s Frozen. You'd wonder what Hector Berlioz might make of Disney's Frozen. Isn't it ...
Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...
Hector Berlioz was the arch-Romantic composer, his life was all you’d expect – by turn turbulent and passionate, ecstatic and melancholic. Berlioz’s father was a country doctor practising near ...
Nothing about Hector Berlioz’s music is remotely conventional. He went his own way, carving out each successive score with a bracing spontaneity and freedom that left most of his contemporaries in the ...
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