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Topic: Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique - IV. March to the Scaffold (Read 4494 times)

liszt1022

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Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique - IV. March to the Scaffold

on: March 10, 2006, 03:59:27 PM

This is a 60% Liszt and 40% my own arrangement of the "March to the Scaffold" from Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. This recording comes from a live performance at a piano-area concert at my university. I know it's got some note issues but it's really fun to play anyway.

berlioz4live.mp3 (3415.82 kB - downloaded 237 times.)

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donjuan

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Re: Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique - IV. March to the Scaffold

Reply #1 on: March 12, 2006, 10:46:59 PM

I am so glad you decided to play this! Well, I can tell from the changes you made from Liszt's version that you dont like doing arpeggios very much. I liked your ending more than Liszt's!

Overall, it was effective - Told the story well. Good control in the parts that matter, but some of the stuff in between the main bits you kind of lost focus a bit and it wasnt quite clear where the music was going until you got back into something recognizable. Sounds like you had fun though, and thats what made it work.
Thanks for sharing the recording! Certainly no worse than Leslie Howard, but you don't want to know what i think about him..