French Music for String Orchestra
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95734
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 7th December 2018
Contents
Works
Symphony no.1 for string orchestraHymne for 10 string instruments
Symphony no.2 in D major, H153 'Symphony for Strings'
Sur les flots lointains, op.130
Adagio for Strings, op.3
Sarabande et rigaudon, op.93
Artists
Ciconia ConsortConductor
Dick van GasterenWorks
Symphony no.1 for string orchestraHymne for 10 string instruments
Symphony no.2 in D major, H153 'Symphony for Strings'
Sur les flots lointains, op.130
Adagio for Strings, op.3
Sarabande et rigaudon, op.93
Artists
Ciconia ConsortConductor
Dick van GasterenAbout
The name of Jacques Castérède (1926-2014) may not be well known outside his native France, but the taut and compelling Symphony for strings which he wrote at the age of 26 – his first major work – deserves far wider recognition. Tension runs high throughout the opening Modéré before breaking into a violent Scherzo in the manner of Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Shostakovich and indeed the Second Symphony of Arthur Honegger may be called to mind by the impassioned lyricism of the slow movement, which rises from darkness before discovering a point of radiant transfiguration in the movement’s coda. Restless counterpoint brings the finale to an exhilarating, emphatic conclusion.
The first recording of Castérède’s symphony won a Grand prix du disque, but it has taken half a century for the second to be made by this young and exciting Dutch string ensemble as the centrepiece of their debut on CD. Turbulent energy and sombre elegy are the key signatures of the imaginative programme: Honegger’s Second Symphony of 1937 explores the same expressive territory as Castérède’s Symphony, though its trumpet-led apotheosis achieves hard-won resolution.
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