Berlioz - La mort d'Ophélie - Cecilia Bartoli video

High resolution and stereo sound: www.youtube.com Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 - 8 March 1869) home.vicnet.net.au La mort d'Ophélie, ballade, Op. 18 No. 2 [H. 92] Text: Ernest Legouvé (1807--1903) Composition: May 1842 Score: imslp.org In this recording: Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano Myung-Whun Chung, piano Decca, 1996 La mort d'Ophélie (The death of Ophelia) is "a setting of a ballad by Ernest Legouvé, based on Gertrude's description of Ophelia's drowning in Act IV of Hamlet. It was originally composed for solo voice and piano in 1842, but in 1848 Berlioz revised it for female choir and orchestra. The verses of Ernest Legouvé were adapted from Gertrude's speech in Act 4, Scene 7 of Hamlet "There is a willow grows aslant a brook"." - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org "... in 1842, Berlioz collaborated with Legouvé by setting to music the ballad La Mort d'Ophélie on a text by his friend after Shakespeare (Holoman no. 92). A letter of Berlioz refers to this: 'Let me know when you are coming to Paris. I want you to hear the piece I wrote last week on your delightful poem The Death of Ophelia [...] If you like it I will orchestrate the piano accompaniment for a nice little orchestra and I could include the whole piece in one of my concerts' (CG no. 769bis, 8 May 1842). The work was subsequently orchestrated by Berlioz (in July 1848), and eventually published as the second of the three pieces entitled Tristia in 1851 (Holoman no. 119B), though it was ...