Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Dream Of A Witches Sabbath
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2011
- Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 - 5. Dream Of The Witches' Sabbath by Hector Berlioz in 1830.
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Berlioz, freaking the hell out of the audience before Stravinsky made it cool.
You're not lying. As a child 9:58 scared me to fucking DEATH.
@@princesshollywood3844 What about AC/DC'S HELL'S BELLS?
No one is talking about the painting, I think the portrait really has a lot of life within it. The eyes look so intelligent, like he's thinking.
I do not like the painting, CZcams user Johanna. Its smug aura mocks me.
If you look long enough, his face appears to shift from sadness to intrigue to disdain to smugness
Only music is everlasting
I think he’s had a glimpse of a old but warming memory
He wrote the symphony after his despair after finding out that his girlfriend, Harriet Smithson, was having an affair with her manager. So he was depressed not intrigued.
That bell chime is wicked eerie. This is masterpiece
Until HELL'S BELLS by AC/DC! Was AC/DC inspired by Berlioz DREAM OF A WITCH'S SABBATH?
Only people that saw the lecture given by Profesor IH this morning know how eloquent and esoteric this peice truly is
Greeks??? More like geeks
Damn I wish I was there
When I was a kid, I considered this the scariest-sounding piece of music in existence.
I still do.
It is dark.
Scary in the sense of an awesome fear. Like a god of great power whose temper, when lost, will break entire continents. It's a song I myself associate with majestic wrath, and with spectacular clashes of power.
Well, that sound pretentious as hell. Let's just say it's a cool song.
@@tinobemellow Well said!
He wrote it on drugs.
Isn't that marvelous?
This is how Dream of a Witches Sabbath is supposed to be played! By far the best recording I can find. Cheers!
Try Sir Colin Davis' He was (as he's dead now) considered the world's best at conducting Berlioz and Berlioz authority. His live recording with LPO is considered to be among the best (if not THE best) recording.
3:30 that Dies Irae gives me the chills
The church bells before it are awesome as well. I have been trying to make some creepy music and so I have been listening to this to brainstorm.
@@micahmarrs9963 did u make any music?
@@micahmarrs9963 how well did that go? I myself am trying to write horroresque songs and am to no avail.
@NICHOLAS PULLY They're both Dies Irae
NICHOLAS PULLY the theme took a sample of this piece.
The second I started listening to this, there was very loud rolling thunder outside... pretty sp00ky. Glad I discovered this masterpiece
That’s one hell of a spooky coincidence.😮😌
7 years later..
@@rewjys 4 weeks later
Only 1840s kids get this
lol
Jesus christ 🤣🤣🤣
Nico Bambino telling my kids this was The hottest Ariana grande track in my day
this was composed in 1830
....@@tonyjoseph5197 . . . dit heet een vloek , 't is maar dat je het weet , suffie !
maar de muziek is geweldig !
I listened to this on LSD. The visions it summoned were a cross between the macabre, the grotesque and the thrillingly terrifying. I basically experienced my own execution. Which is what the piece is about. I think my knowledge of the piece created the experience.
Definetly
That’s wack dude
people at that time, especially artists, talked about seeing things come out of the wall and stuff. That was normal back then and was a major inspiration for many (also for ppl who didn't do absinth haha). Then science came and made that abnormal.
Oh, I love modern science and progress, it saves lives and makes our world better, and at the same time I remind myself that intuition and unexplainable stuff is real too!
You’re a loser mate. Get clean.
Or you were you just to high on lsd and let you're Imagination take over from what is actual reality
Listening to this makes me feel like a madman.... and I wouldn't want it any other way.
"The Shining" Symphony. It is absolutely incomprehensible to me, how in this music Berlioz predicted what will happen to Jack Torrance 150 years later.
😂😂🤣
It's almost as if they picked for this specific reason. Almost like the directors can choose songs for their movies that fit thematically! How incomprehensible...
They used more of Liszt's Totentanz in the movie
Yesss!!
And Sleeping With The Enemy too lol
L'émotion qui me qui prend en écoutant ce chef-d'œuvre est inexplicable. J'ai des frissons. Ce mouvement est surtout mon préféré. Je joue cette œuvre avec mon orchestre d'université et j'attends le concert avec tant d'impatience!!
At 3:30 its taken from dies irae (day of the wrath) by Thomas of celano weitten about 1250. Franz liszt also uses this in "tontentanz" danse macabre. Its also used in the opening theme of the classic 1970s film the shining.
Thank you, I was looking for this comment.
It's also referenced everywhere. Sing, "this is Halloween" from nightmare beforen christmas. Also, Simba's running scene from Lion King... among so many others.
The Shining came out in 1980.
honestly this music is so well composed it brings tears to my eyes
Here's Johnny!!!! 3:28
omg ! you are right
The tune probably comes from the Gregorian Chant Dies Irae.
@@Despotic_Waffle not probably. Both composers (Berlioz and Carlos) reference the Dies Irae pretty explicitly.
I love that there are people who know the story happening in this song!
This piece is fantastic, but it always gives me the chills
I HAD to check it out. Was not disappointed.
This was my favorite piece of music as a kid. I checked out the score from the local library, so I could follow along.
The final movement features a four-part structure, which Berlioz described in his own program notes from 1845 as follows:
"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."
Sorry that it’s been a year, but do you know if there’s any way to prove that? It’s a very interesting detail and I’d love to use it in a paper but I’ve gotta find a source that’s made than a CZcams comment.
There’s no way he actually used the word orgy in his notes lmao
@@MiloMcCarthyMusic its not the same thing you think off. orgy means: secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing. that is what they mean i think.
And Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas thought it had mastered the depiction of debauched gatherings.
I think my new favorite quote from a famous musician is "She joins the diabolical orgy"
I'd honestly love to see this done in a Fantasia film. It'd be another "Night on bald mountain"
Try Basil Twists underwater 'puppet show!' It's trippy.
Disney should do this movie
The music expresses man's unreachable dreams....searching for the realization of his dream...I love it! thanks for putting my imagination beyond the celestial space.
Your place is earth.
Damn, i never knew such masterpiece existed until internet historian.
Awesome! Tommy Beecham was a master when a work needed an eagle eye and a special touch. Symphonie Fantastique IS such a work and this extraordinary remastering is brilliant and dramatic. It grabbed me by the lapels and threw me clean across the room!
I find playing this during a thunderstorm is good for dramatic effect
One of my FAVORITE pieces of Classical Music
If a movie or show brings people to Berlioz, and the rich history of symphony, that's great! There is much to explore in human history before the 20th century,, some far more complex and sophisticated than what most are exposed to today.
Well, I thank an 8-bit horror game for bringing me here.
The shining.
@@adityabadole7221 and sleeping with enemy (julia roberts)
Yes! Wendy Carlos, who was known for her "covers" of famous composers' music (such as Bach), covered Berlioz's 5th Movement of Symphonie Fantastique, particularly the part at 3:30 -- the Dies Irae, or "Day of Wrath" theme. She played this theme on a synthesizer -- this is the music you hear in the opening scene of The Shining!
trans women love scary music
@@jessebeegee its cus we have so much fear to process in our lives lol
3:30 is not from 'The Shining'. It's a Gregorian chant from Medieval times, specifically the 'Dies Irae' chant having to do with Armageddon, and is a part of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead (i.e. a Requiem).
yes a version of this is used in The Shining...idiot
Wes LaPoint The point of the matter is that some people actually think that Berlioz took it from 'The Shining'. So, if you would, kindly go fuck off. Thank you.
Ethan A. It's from The Shining
Jerrongamereview
How can it be from The Shining if Berlioz wrote it during the 19th century?
Sadly, that kind of really picky wording would make me happy, as it is both accurate and informative.
I first heard this in the movie Sleeping with the Enemy as a kid and fell in love with it
It is rumored he wrote this for his infatuation with a Shakespearian actress whom wrote him off as crazy and obsessive yet later married him (briefly) when she heard this piece was about her.
It was also rumored that he was under the influence of heroin as well
Heroin wasn't invented until the late nineteenth century.
Its true, her name was Harriet, although he was never married to her, they had many affairs.
Isabella Kelly in fact they were married, but she turned out to be a drunk, and drunks and opium addicts don't make good pairs. Not long after they separated, quite badly too.
Nicol Hendrikse yes i was mistaken, sorry about that. My music teacher is not to be trusted.
People must remember that Berlioz composed this symphony when he was 27 !. Then he got bored and never wrote another one. For the first performance the audience thought the composer was insane and put their hands on their ears !!! Hahahaha !
I listen to this with headphones every night before going to sleep
I have loved this piece from the first time I heard it as a kid not knowing what it was❤❤
Ah I remember playing this about 3 years ago! Loved it and can't wait to play it again some day (I hope!)
He wrote this in 1830 but it could've easily been written in 1900.
And they call iggy pop 'ahead of his time'
Yes :'(
lol
no, that would be brian eno
I think it could be written nowadays. And would be modern and contemporaneous.
lolll
This gives me the chills.
I love it in Sleeping with the Enemy!
I love the chatter and squawking of the woodwind in this!
Love the calls, chatter and screaming of the E flat & C Clarinets!
That blew my ears off! Beautiful!
this song sounds really scary yet so beautiful at the same time
Beauty from madness and chaos. Magnificent.
OMG, VERY POWERFUL and AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, The Gregorian chant and bewitching sounds created too much anxiety in the audience and Berlioz was run out of town, chased by angry people with pitchforks!!! Today we appreciate the ghostly sounds of the instruments mimicking demons.... and note his genius as a musician ahead of his time...
Is there a source about that anecdote?
^^^^^^
No he wasn't. It certainly caused an uproar though and the audience detested it. Yes there was the satanic themes but also the harmonies were very unconventional. Being a guitarist Berlioz' harmonic structures were nothing like most music at the time and people noticed.
Well its a program symphony in the Romantic era.
LoneWolf yes, he was.
I wish i could find the old cartoons that used to play music like this. i just dont know what to look for these days but i grew up watching them and wish i could show my kids. such expressive music used to convey the story shown in the cartoons.
great picture of him
Sensational!
i love this music. this is what i mean by " a wonderful music with some spice of suspence!!"
i love its suspence in it, it fits perfectly in a disney movie or in a fairytale.
I love the "Skeletons Dancing" at 9:18. Fantastic!
My mood this Autumn.
This is so twisted, I love it.
Anyone recognize 3:30 on the Super Nintendo game Zombies Ate My Neighbors. It was sampled for the Castle of Terror level.
Yeah it is epic! It's called Dies Irae.
Just came back from the Grove. This gave me the chills.
maravilloso..... sin duda uno de los mejores
So many instances of near 20th technique in the 1830s. Those ascending fourths in the slow intro for example. The things a free spirit can enable one to come up with...
If we can say Beethoven often stuck his dick out in his revolutionary works, Berlioz simply had it hanging out. Sorry, but I am amused by this.
He probably left it hanging out for Harambe.
Sorry to bother you 4 years later.
I'm sampling 2:35 - 2:37 for a rap beat atm.
Could you please tell me some other near 20th techniques Berloiz did?
Thank you
Free spirit and opium
I love that Eb Clarinet solo at 1:32
The things opium can bring out of people.
Exactly
Jane Crocker V,v,,rTBOPAM
Camphor helps, too.
have you tried it ?
Well it was certainly true for Berlioz!
i just discover you Hector Berlioz................. wow im amazed
A MASTERPIECE...!!!!
My favorite song in the world! This is going to be played at my funeral, for sure!! Thanks for the amazing upload. Have been listening to so many "cut-out" one, and I have the CD so I know how it really sounds like, and yours - exactly the same! Amazing, thank you!
"The" CD...
Fantastic!
this is metal.
Ivo Wilson Indeed.
No, this is true music
@@xpkryanx
Metal is actually true music
Oddly enough, Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" was possibly inspired by this piece.
@@xpkryanx Sorry guy. No true Scotsman fallacy in play here. All music is beautiful.
And in that moment he turns and smile at you.
I want this played at my funeral ✌🏻😎 peace out biznitches
One of the greatest songs of all time...
yes !
Amazing
3:30 "Here's Johnny!"
the shinning I like berlioz so good for a creepy movie
it still chills me ..... after 35 years
Beautiful
This is incredible
*Switches from trumpet to Eb Clarinet because of this solo*
That bit from 3:30 to 3:54 sure as hell sounded like The Shining theme.
I have this music playing in my room when I revise.
Berlioz and his dad:
"Dad, I started doing drugs in music college"
"YOU WHAT?"
"But i wrote this: ♪♪"
"Oh, all right then.. I guess.."
So drug addicts try to justify their degeneracy by saying some artists did good art (despite) potentially taking drugs?
@@scintillam_dei yes
Pour ceux qui n'auraient pas remarqué, c'est cette musique qui a inspiré le compositeur de la bande son de The Shining ! 😀
I love the part from 1:53 to 2:20
shame, Berlioz didn't make that passage longer
looooove this
Crazy! ❤
I've always wanted to attend a witches' sabbat. It sounds like the wildest and darkest party you could ever be a part of.
You could probably easily do that...although its great fun its also a sacred time for most and probably(in most cases) not as wild and dark as you imagine. Look up witchvox.com for events in your area
Yeah its not likely how u may have heard it was m8
Wildest and darkest? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
I think you're talking about the "secret societies" parties of the elite.
The bankers and their cronies; corrupt corporate CEOS and their cronies; oil and energy CEOS and their cronies; corrupt techies (Silicon Valley, Palo Alto; India; Switzerland; Czech Republic; etc); corrupt politician scum; corrupt bureaucrat scum; corrupt governments officials and their corrupt lapdogs (policemen); non-drug black market operatives (child traffickers for the elite); mercenaries with allegiances or connections to the corrupt scum (assassins without morale); royalty families and lineages; trash entertainment industry CEOS and their secret societies; nation traitors (those that get bribed to attend pseudo-politicians speeches and so on); *any corrupt scum* with power like multibillionaires and *anyone* capable of pulling an *ATTEMPT* on someone's life like they did with Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Seth Rich, Milton William Cooper, the son of the judge Esther Salas, Andrew Breitbart, David Kelly and so on.
More heroes worth mentioning:
Julian Assange
Marvin Heemeyer
When someone makes something as intense as this, you kinda have to give the composer a shot.
Yeah the bells in this recording are just right
If I ever have to drive on some deserted road in the western U.S., I'm going to listen to this.
I am listening to this for my music appreciation class. It is a little bit of a darker piece, but it has an interesting story behind it.
Beautiful soundtrack to listen reading Edgar Allan Poe!!!!!! The Black Cat is perfect to this song!
"Tell tale heart " too.
What a banger
Great version
If you ask me, the most brilliant part of this seminal piece is: 3:01 -3:19
Your not wrong it's the part that will always be remembered and has been reused by another artist to keep it alive
agree, agree!!
1:39 god damn this scared the shit outta me 😭
3:30 This portion of Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique - Dream of a Witches' Sabbath' should be familiar to any Stanley Kubrick movie fans since it was featured during the main title sequence in 'The Shining' which added a very dark, foreboding atmosphere when seeing the winding mountain roads headed to the Overlook Hotel. :)
I want someone to play this whenever I enter a room
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
allwork and no play makes Jacka dull boy.
All work and no play makes Homer something something...
All work and no play makes Homer. ..doh!
*no tv and no beer :p
NICE SONG
Playing this at a funeral would be cool!
Ian Brady ask for it but was rightly denied by the judge.
9:12 perfect, Just perfect
3:02 😍
anyone from 2024?
Yea doing it in musics class
1849 here
Yeah man
Please believe me!!!
Me sadly for a test paper 😂
Mystical!!
Simplement génial
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"Sleeping with the Enemy" brought me here.
@Dino LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!! LAURA!!
Thank you everyone on tik tok keeps saying shinning
Great movie.
I put this on before we got into bed and my girlfriend laughed soo HARD!? 😅😂🤣 great movie btw
Shining lads