D’Indy - Orchestral Works Vol.4
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10660
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 28th February 2011
Contents
Artists
Iceland Symphony OrchestraConductor
Rumon GambaWorks
Poeme des rivages, op.77Symphony no.1 in A major 'Italienne'
Artists
Iceland Symphony OrchestraConductor
Rumon GambaAbout
The exclusive Chandos artist Rumon Gamba and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra here return with Volume 4 of Chandos’ highly acclaimed series devoted to these unjustly neglected orchestral works. Of Symphony No.3 on Volume 3, released in 2010, Classic FM said: ‘Following their first two much-praised discs, Rumon Gamba and the Iceland Symphony further champion the lushly colourful and impressionistic orchestral music of Vincent d’Indy. It’s a fascinating work that mixes straightforward militaristic passages with a high-Romantic, 20th-century language that’s part Expressionist, part Impressionist’.
Symphonie italienne was written when d’Indy was in his late teens. It was strongly inspired by his travels in Italy, and the four movements bear the respective titles ‘Rome’, ‘Florence’, ‘Venice’, and ‘Naples’. Heavily indebted in style to Mendelssohn, Schumann and Berlioz, this tuneful work was a tremendous - if ambitious - undertaking for the comparative novice, and shows early signs of the composer’s strong intellectual musical mind.
D’Indy composed the Poème des Rivages, his late orchestral masterpiece, in 1919–21. It is a work of outstanding technical accomplishment and poetic inspiration, which succeeds in combining the solid post-Franckian structures with the textual and colouristic fluidity of Debussy. The orchestral forces, including four saxophones, create an almost visual impression of light and atmosphere, in the manner of Claude Monet. Its well-received premiere took place in New York on 1 December 1921 under d’Indy’s direction.
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