(Leader, A. Rossi )
Under the direction of Emilio Colombo
From The Hotel Metropole, London
(Daventry National Programme)

Conducted by CHARLES LEGGETT
NORMAN Williams (Baritone)

(Continued)
The artist in whose life this symphony describes 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 first movement describes all the bewildering tumult of heart of one who has fallen violently in love. The second is a ball where he met 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 idée 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.