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THE BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
FRANK MANNHEIMER (Pianoforte)
From THE PAVILION, BOURNEMOUTH
THE artist in whose life this symphony describes
-L an episode is, of course, Berlioz himself. He himself left a description of what his music tells us here—the dreams of an ardent spirit who has tried to poison himself with opium. The work is built on a ' motto ' theme, an idée fixe, which pursues the dreamer everywhere. The lirst movement describes all the bewildering tumult of heart of one who has fallen violently in love. The second is a ball where he meets his beloved, and the third describes a summer evening in the country. In the fourth he dreams that he has murdered his beloved and is marched to'the' scaffold, and the fifth is a very orgy of terror. The idee fixe, whose changed shapes have a large share in these different scenes, is first heard at the opening of the main (allegro) part of the first movement, after the slow (largo) introduction.

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Conductor:
Sir Dan Godfrey
Pianoforte:
Frank Mannheimer

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