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MARCHE HONGROISE from 'Le Damnation de Faust'
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MARCHE HONGROISE (HUNGARIAN MARCH) IS A SECTION OF 'LE DAMNATION DE FAUST' OP. 24, A WORK FOR ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, AND VOICES WRITTEN BY HECTOR BERLIOZ IN 1846. IT IS BASED ON JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE'S DRAMATIC POEM 'FAUST'. ORIGINAL MANUSKRIPT PIC.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Symphonic
Charts
Peak #1,207
Peak in subgenre #24
Author
Hector Berlioz - 1846
Rights
public domain
Uploaded
December 01, 2009
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MP3 5.5 MB • 189 kbps • 4:05
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This was performed by the outstanding University of Michigan Symphonic Band on 04-02-1967, conducted by the famed director, Dr. William D. Revelli. Dr. Revelli directed the band from 1935-1971. La damnation de Faust is a work for orchestra, voices, and chorus written by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz's magnificent exploration of the Faust legend is a unique operatic journey. The visionary French composer was inspired by a bold translation of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust and produced a monumental and bewildering musical work that, like the masterpiece it's based on, defies easy categorization. Conceived at various times as a free-form oratorio and as an opera -- Berlioz ultimately called it a "legende dramatique" -- La Damnation de Faust is both intimate and grandiose, exquisitely beautiful and blaringly rugged, hugely ambitious, and presciently cinematic. Its travelogue form and cosmic perspective have made it an extreme challenge to stage as an opera. Berlioz himself was eager to see the work staged, but once he did, he conceded that the production techniques of his time were not up to the task of bringing the work to dramatic life. Most of the work's fame has come through concert performances. In any form, La Damnation de Faust is an extraordinary work with the power to astound and impress even the most seasoned listener. Berlioz read Goethe's Faust Part One in 1828, in Garard de Nerval's translation; "this marvelous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs. "I could not put it down. I read it incessantly, at meals, in the theatre, in the street." He was so impressed that a suite entitled "Eight Scenes from Faust" became his Opus 1 (1829), though he later recalled all the copies of it he could find. He returned to the material in 1845, to make a larger work, with some additional text by Almire Gandonnia to Berlioz's specifications, that he first called a "concert opera", and as it expanded, finally a "dramatic legend". Its first performance at the Opera-Comique, Paris, 6 December 1846, did not meet with critical acclaim, perhaps due to its halfway status between opera and cantata; the public was apathetic, and two performances (and a cancelled third) rendered a financial setback for Berlioz: "Nothing in my career as an artist wounded me more deeply than this unexpected indifference", he remembered. The Damnation of Faust is performed regularly in concert halls, since its first successful complete performance in concert in Paris, in 1877; it is occasionally staged as an opera, for the first time in Opera de Monte-Carlo on 18 February 18 1893, where it was produced by its director Raoul Gunsbourg, Jean de Reszke singing the role of Faust. The Metropolitan Opera premiered it first in concert (2 February 1896) and then on stage (The United States stage premiere on 7 December 1906). The Met revived it first in concert at Carnegie Hall on 10 November 1996, (repeated on tour in Tokyo the next year), then on the stage production on 7 November 2008, produced and directed by Robert Lepage, with innovative techniques of computer-generated stage imagery that responds to the performers' voices. There are a number of recordings. Three sections of it, the Marche Hongroise (Hungarian March), Ballet des sylphes, and Menuet des follets are sometimes extracted and performed as "Three Orchestral Pieces from La Damnation de Faust."
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