Friday, May 1, 2015

ROMEO and JULIET IN CLASSICAL MUSIC



The Musically Inspiring

'Romeo and Juliet' 
Love Story Touches Romantic
Chord in Composers
by Miles Hoffman
February 14, 2003
You wouldn't call Romeo and Juliet the world's most famous fun-loving couple, but they were among the most inspirational. Their passionate story prompted many other art works — musical ones in particular. As a Valentine's Day treat, Morning Edition commentator Miles Hoffman recently brought in a stack of Romeo and Juliet recordings and played them for NPR's Bob Edwards.
Hoffman starts this romantic musical journey with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. The "lush and sweeping" work, written in 1869, "set a standard in some ways for what we think of as love music," Hoffman says.
Berlioz' Romeo et Juliette. The composer "didn't want words," Hoffman says. "He only wanted instrumental music because he felt that words would be too limiting" in telling the love story.

 Charles Gounod created the most famous operatic version of Shakespeare's tragedy. "His Romeo and Juliet opera has been called a love duet with occasional interruptions," Hoffman says.

 And then, of course, there's West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's modern take on Romeo and Juliet. For Bernstein, "the Capulets and the Montagues became the Sharks and the Jets," Hoffman says.
"We're lucky that this beautiful love story has inspired composers," Hoffman says. "I suppose you could say that all beautiful music is Romeo and Juliet because all music that moves us is somehow or other, if not actually about love, it's about something that connects with love somewhere in us."

1. PIOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
ROMEO AND JULIET
FANTASY OVERTURE
http://healingwoman.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html
PART 1
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
London Symphony Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2jKeYuPvjM

PART 2
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
London Symphony Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IDzeZ1PSY8
2. HECTOR BERLIOZ

ROMEO ET JULIETTE
SYMPHONIE DRAMATIQUE
(Choral Symphony)
James Gaffigan, Conductor
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Netherlands Radio Choir
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5MJDd8zEOM
Love Scene: Serene Night
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra

3. CHARLES GOUNOD
ROMEO ET JULIETTE
Opera in 5 Acts
4. LEONARD BERNSTEIN
WEST SIDE STORY
Musical
Original Broadway Footage, 1957
Songs: "Maria" and "Tonight"
Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVM1LXOids#t=22
5. SERGEI PROKOFIEV
ROMEO AND JULIET OP. 64
Ballet in 4 Acts
Andrew Mogrelia, Conductor
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
NOT MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE ARTICLE,
HERE ARE SOME OPERAS
BASED ON THE STORY OF
ROMEO and JULIET
VINCENZO BELLINI

I CAPULETTI AND MONTECCHI

Opera: Part 1
Evelino Pido, Conductor
L'Opéra National de Paris, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHW2ujnaoLs
I CAPULETTI AND MONTECCHI
Opera: Part 2
Evelino Pido, Conductor
L'Opera National de Paris, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28t-t2i0TiY
FREDERICK DELIUS
A VILLAGE ROMEO AND JULIET
Opera or Lyric Drama in Six Scenes
Sir Charles Mackerras, Conductor
ORF Symphony Orchestra

Village of Romeo and Juliet FemaleVillage of Romeo and Juliet Male
James Spencer Russell: Costume Design from Village of Romeo and Juliet



CLASSICAL MUSIC
BASED ON
THE ROMEO and JULIET THEME
BY FAMOUS COMPOSERS
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
BELLINI, VINCENZO:
I Capuleti e Montecchi Opera

 BENDA, GEORG ANTON:
Romeo und Julie,
Singspiel, 1776
BERLIOZ, HECTOR:
Roméo et Juliette,
For Alto, Tenor, Bass, Chorus and Orchestra
H.79 (Op. 17), 1839
("Symphonie Dramatique")
BOYCE, WILLIAM:
Dirge from Romeo and Juliet
E Wilson - Romeo And Juliet
DELIUS, FREDERICK:
A Village Romeo and Juliet,
Lyric Drama, RT i/6, 1901
The Walk To the Paradise Garden
For Orchestra, 1901
(Interlude from "A Village Romeo and Juliet")
GERMAN, EDWARD:
Romeo and Juliet,
Incidental Music
GOULD, MORTON:
Enter Juliet
GOUNOD, CHARLES:
Roméo et Juliette,
Opera, 1865
Gounod, Charles/Liszt, Franz:
Les Adieux, Rêverie Sur un Motif de L'Opéra Roméo et Juliette,
Transcription for Piano (After Gounod),
S. 409 (LW A237), 1867
Gounod, Charles/Sarasate, Pablo de:
Fantasía for Violin and Orchestra
on Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, Op. 5

GRANADOS, ENRIQUE:
Romeo y Julieta,
For Piano, H. 116
KABALESKY, DMITRY:
Romeo and Juliet,
Suite from the Incidental Music,
Op. 56, 1956
KHACHATURIAN, ARAM:
Romeo and Juliet,
Film Score, 1956
MASSENET, JULES:
Devant la Madonne
For Small Orchestra, 1864
(Souvenir de la Campagne de Rome, Nuit de Noël, 1864)
Romeo and Juliet by Unknown Artist
DARIUS MILHAUD:
Introduction et Marche Funèbre,
For Orchestra Op. 153b, 1936
(From Incidental Music to Play Quatorze Julliet)
POULENC, FRANCIS:
Esquisse d'un Fanfare,
For Winds, Percussion and Piano FP 25, 1921
(Overture for Act V of Shakespeare, Roméo and Juliet),
PROKOFIEV, SERGEI:
Romeo and Juliet,
Ballet in 4 Acts,
Op. 64, 1935
Romeo and Juliet,
Pieces (10) for Piano,
Op. 75, 1937
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 1
For Orchestra,
Op. 64 Bis, 1936
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2
For Orchestra,
Op. 64 Ter, 1936
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 3
For Orchestra,
Op. 101, 1946
Prokofiev, Sergey/Heifetz, Jascha:
Masks, Arrangement for Violin and Piano, 1941
(After Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet)
RAFF, JOACHIM:
Romeo and Juliet Overture,
For Orchestra, 1879
RODGERS, RICHARD:
Me and Juliet, musical, 1953
A Very Special Day, Song (From "Me and Juliet")
Marriage Type Love, Song (From "Me and Juliet")
No Other Love, Song (From "Me and Juliet")
I'm Your Girl, Song (From "Me and Juliet")
The Big Black Giant, Song (From "Me and Juliet")
ROREM, NED:
Romeo and Juliet,
For Flute and Guitar, 1977
ROSSINI, GIOACHINO:
Romeo
("Juliette Chère Idole"),
For Voice and Piano
(Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 2)
ROTA, NINO
Romeo and Juliet,
Film Score, 1966
A Time For Us
(For the Film Romeo and Juliet)
SIBELIUS, JEAN:
Romeo,
Song for Voice and Piano,
Op. 61/4, 1910
STRAUSS, RICHARD:
Romeo and Juliet,
Incidental Music,
Op. 86 (TrV 150, AV 86), 1887
SVENDSEN, JOHAN:
Romeo and Juliet,
Fantasy for Orchestra,
Op. 18, 1876
TCHAIKOVSKY, PYOTR IL'YICH:
Romeo and Juliet,
Fantasy-Overture
For Orchestra in B Minor
(3 Versions), 1880
Romeo and Juliet,
Incidental music
(Sketch for Opera), 1881
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich/
Taneyev, Sergey:
Duet After Tchaikovsky's
"Romeo and Juliet"
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich/Lemare, Edwin:
Fantasy-Overture on Romeo and Juliet
(after Tchaikovsky)


OTHER CLASSICAL PIECES
Heinrich Sutermeister (1910-1995) Romeo und Julia
Nicola Vaccai (1790-1848) Giulietta e Romeo (1825)
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752-1837) Giulietta e Romeo.
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