Berlioz C/D, S/D.

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I had a dream last night that I was trapped in a room full of uh, vampires I think they were.
Anyways they were blasting some really spooky sounding classical symphony on their stereo and I said, "What the hell is this spooky shit you're listening to?" and this hot vampiress sitting on a couch said "It's Berlioz. It's beautiful." Then I think they all killed me or something and I started dreaming something else.

So, here's the deal. I've never heard Berlioz before in my life, and while I'm sure his actual music sounds nothing like what I heard in my dream (which was total nitemare music, serves me right for listening to Coltrane's Ascension right before bed) I figure if a composer who I know virtually nothing about's name pops up randomly in a dream, I should at least start a thread about him and get some info - maybe pick up a few CDs eventually. Thanks.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 3 September 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Great beginning for a thread! Unfortunately, I don't know anything about his work, but I'm sure someone will be along soon who does.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago)

I just remembered what I dreamed after that. I was unloading this huge dishwasher with this girl who tried to ruin my life a few years ago.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm telling you, that dream suits Berlioz down to a tee; he wrote some damn spooky music, also the vampire thing kind of makes me marvel because I was introduced to Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique"
by a Penguin audio tape retelling of Dracula when I was 8 or so. That was the backround music, and I've associated him with 19th century gothic ever since.
Oh yeah and in the last movement of that piece the hero (who's on opium) hallucinates a Witches' Sabbath (he gets executed at the guillotine in the previous movement too...).

S: Symphonie fantastique, Harold in Italy, L'Enfance du Christ,
Requiem (Grande Messe des morts), Les Nuits D'ete

Don't bother with : the operas, Lelio

― de, Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago)

he wrote some damn spooky music, also the vampire thing kind of makes me marvel because I was introduced to Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique"
by a Penguin audio tape retelling of Dracula when I was 8 or so.

Damn that is pretty freaky considering I didn't know ANYTHING about his music.
If I was superstitious, I would think that this has got to be some kind of sign. I better get some CDs ASAP so as not to further aggravate the Children of the Damned with my ignorance of Berlioz. ;)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago)

OK I'm getting:
Symphonie Fantastique - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis
Requiem - Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa

Plus 10 other assorted classical CDs. That should keep the vamps at bay.
(I believe this dream my have been triggered by some subconscious guilt at my only owning like 3 classical CDs right now, a record low.)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 5 September 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago)

saw the national youth orchestra perform a really nervy, andrenalin-fuelled take on berlioz's roman carnival on saturday. um, I was v.hungover & caffiene-nauseous tho, & can't remember much.

― etc, Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

More threads should be inspired by inexplicable musical references in dreams.

Tell us about these other 10 CDs, and their likely vamp-repelling qualities!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago)

barber, quartet for cello, stake, and garlic cloves

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

nothing arcane just the "Top Ten CD Starter Set" list found in the back of The NPR Guide To Building A Classical CD Collection. I'm also getting the Peguin guide to help me out with CD selections. I've been meaning to do this for a while. I think this dream was just a reminder, like the one I had last night about the Sun Ra Space is the Place DVD.
These are the 20 CDs from the NPR Guide (as listed in my Amazon cart):

Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), et al;

Marlboro Music Festival- 40th Anniversary - Franz Schubert (Composer), et al;

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), et al;

Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. 1 - Franz Joseph Haydn (Composer), Sir Colin Davis (Conductor);

Bernstein Century - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, etc - George Gershwin (Composer), et al;

Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3/Debussy: La Mer/Ibert: Escales - Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), et al

Rubinstein Collection 45 - Rubinstein, Chopin;

Bizet: Carmen - Georges Bizet (Composer), et al;

Bach - Mass in B minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner - Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), et al

Beethoven: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7 / Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Carlos Kleiber (Conductor)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago)

I meant the Penguin guide of course

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago)

and 10 CDs jeez what the hell is wrong with me

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

So far only three CDs have arrived(damn amazon and their staggered shipments), but one of them was Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
I definitely HAVE heard the section IV: 'Marche au supplice' before - many, many times not knowing it was Berlioz. Was this bit in a well known movie or TV commercial or Warner Bros. cartoon or something? I've gotta know where I heard this......VERY familiar.

As I suspected, it doesn't sound like what I heard in my dream but still very cool.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

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