Great Composers: Hector Berlioz 

I wish they would do a movie on him- would teach the kids that historical figures were cool and fun!

Which piece in that is your favorite? I haven't listened to all of them yet (I have about 3 more,) but my personal favorite is the Dies Irae.

@@dinosaurcj My favourite is the Tuba mirum (which is in the same movement as Dies irae)

@@classicalmusic3334 "This Offertorium surpasses everything " so said Robert Schumann when he heard it for the very first time.

I wish I had to do reports on Berlioz when I was a kid at school... I hope your daughter enjoyed it.

She did! :) Thank you!

Brian: "Hold my Gothic"

Sorabji: "Hold my Jami"

Cuclin: "Hold my 12th symphony"

You're the second person to request Strauss, and it's been reflected in the request pool over at lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html

My life changed when I finally went for RU-vid Premium - you can download tons of videos, recordings and concerts - although strangely when a video is taken down my downloaded copy becomes unavailable

I'm up for putting a video on New Complexity in the request pool, but my policy is not to do _Great Composers_ episodes on living composers since their body of work is by definition still incomplete, so it's harder to put them in the proper historical context.

Classical Nerd aaand this time you tought me that Brian Ferneyhough is still alive, I completely forgot about that :S But a Video about New Complexity would be quite interesting too...

An "Introduction to New Complexity" video has been added to the request pool.

:D

Gesualdo is now in the request pool.

Cool.

Gesualdo has moved up in the request pool.

he did it!

Vivaldi has been added to the request pool at lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html

Donn Pineda spell. Antonio correctly please

If you'd like to, you certainly can! I'm all for spreading education.

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

Any perceived mispronunciations of English words is due to my (slight) southern accent. For foreign languages, I do my best with what I know, but make no promises on 100% accuracy. (For what it's worth, I pronounce the final "r" in repertoire, but not as hard as the other "r" sounds in the word, so sometimes it gets elided or doesn't get picked up in the mic.)

If you had actually studied any amount of phonology (which is something you can actually study, as opposed of "pronunciation"), you'd not only know that both your suggested pronunciations are wrong in their respective languages or origin, but also that there is no standardized correct english pronunciation, making your comment disgustingly condescending as well as pretentious.

My philosophy :D

Sometimes I make mistakes-I'm human, and phonemes that aren't in southern American English can still elude me- but it's awfully bold of you assume that a two-year-old video represents where I'm at now with the quality of the content I produce. Not only have I upgraded my set and production quality twice since this filming, I have learned German, am learning Russian, and now have a roommate that is fairly fluent in both French and Spanish.

@@ClassicalNerd Good for you with respect to working on learning foreign languages. (BTW, unless you took part of an immersion German language program or spent a solid six months living in a German-speaking country, it takes longer than two years to learn German or most any other foreign language except Spanish.) However, as a musicologist, you need to take responsibility for everything you post. All of your videos that I've watched contain pronunciations that are still painful to hear. If you really wanted to do it right, you could go back and redo them with the proper pronunciations. (You could also omit all the jump cuts are a bit dizzying to watch.)

@@lynnmoorer5092 It's possible to make suggestions without being offensive. I suggest you review what you have said and the way that you have said it so as to learn from your own errors in much the same why as you are advocating. Kind of ironic, really.

This remark is NOT directed toward The Classical Nerd at all but it irks me when I hear Americans say " Ay-dolf Hitler" , "Vincent Van Go" and "David Atten-bro" 😫

Kind of struck by the tone of the remark about pronunciation of composers' names. "Mildly entertaining and mostly educational ?" At first these videos were information overload for me but for me I would say "mildly addicting and very educational." I'm more of a Russian student learning about Russian music along the way. I've heard way more jarringly mangled Russian names. Not fluent yet but reading brief passages of War and Peace in Russian. Somehow studying Russian with texts like samples of Rimsky-Korsakov's diary is where it gets entertaining for me. Not a music student so that leaves me in awe actually - obviously someone who's been teaching here. It just comes from many years of studying and enjoying. I can tell if someone in a Russian movie isn't a native speaker - I looked up the actor - he was Ukrainian - I KNEW it - his accent was different. Anyway my point is everyone comes with different backgrounds. Somehow learned to leave grin it and bear it the way literature majors mangle Russian names - I'm a language geek - spent an evening studying how all the Russian characters names are Declined in all 6 Russian cases in Anna Karenina. You only have Russian patronymics in English. In Russian in addition you have to decline all the Russia name variations into 6 different cases. Grammatical cases are practically the equivalent of musical keys or modes. Boy what a rambling comment I've just written!