Vincent d'Indy - Musique de Chambre (Various Artists)

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Composer: Vincent d'Indy

• (01-05) Suite in D major "dans le style ancien", for 2 flutes, trumpet & strings, Op. 24
• (06-07) Chanson et Danses for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons & horn, Op. 50
• (08-11) Quintet for piano & string quartet, Op. 81
• (12-15) Suite en parties for flute, harp, violin, viola & cello, Op. 91

Soloists of the Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Markus Brönnimann, flute

Martin Huber, flute (1-5)

Philippe Gonzales, oboe

Olivier Dartevelle & Jean-Philippe Vivier, clarinets

David Sattler & François Baptiste, bassoons

Marc Bouchard, horn

Adam Rixer, trumpet

Catherine Beynon, harp

Haoxing Liang, violin 1 (1-5; 12-15)

Franziska Pietsch, violin 2 (1-5)

Ilan Schneider, viola

Ilja Laporev, cello

Quatuor Louvigny (8-11)

Philippe Koch, violin 1

Fabian Perdichizzi, violin 2

Ilan Schneider, viola

Aleksandr Khramouchin, cello

François Kerdoncuff, piano

Date: 2007

Label: Timpani

http://timpani-records.com/1c1119.php

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Review

Every decade or so d’Indy is rediscovered and given a small revival—the CD era has seen all the chamber works of note turn up, though you had to be quick to catch them. His appeal has largely been to connoisseurs and lovers of the recherché largely because he is not a great melodist—the evergreen Symphony on a French Mountain Air apart, there is little in his music that seizes you by the hair. But he can take a scrap of musical small change and develop it with such unflagging resourcefulness and passionate logic that one has the conviction of hearing an unqualified masterpiece, which, in a literal sense, one is. When large infusions of the family fortune transformed the Schola Cantorum from a choral society devoted to the revival of Renaissance polyphony to a music school rivaling the Paris Conservatoire in the mid 1890s, d’Indy wrote the course—a monument of erudition. The enormous skill suggested cut both ways. The String Quartet No. 2, for instance (once available in a performance by the Kodaly Quartet, marco polo 8.223140, Fanfare 14: 2), a substantial, Beethovenian work composed in 1897 and playing around half-an-hour, is almost wholly based on a four-note motto—a tour de force in which ingenuity strives indefatigably against aridity.

On the other hand, the works in the present program span d’Indy’s career to present him at his most smilingly accessible, rife with charm, lyricism (of a generic sort), and startling sensuous (but never sensual) beauty. From 1886, the bracingly jaunty Suite “Dans le style ancien” —a genre practiced by Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Magnard, among others—combines intimacy with brilliance. If the Chanson of Chanson et danses , composed in 1898, is too insistently beneath the spell of the Siegfried Idyll , the percolating Danses compensate. D’Indy’s marriage to Caroline Janson in 1920—a woman young enough to have been his daughter—worked a powerful rejuvenation evident in the works of his last dozen years. The giddy, excited Quintet for Piano and Strings from 1925, with its passionate eloquence laced with infinite tenderness and spurred by escalating ardor, is itself alone worth acquiring the album for, while the delightful 1927 Suite en parties spins the joy out in a more unbuttoned form.

In comparison with other performances available and out-of-print, the soloists from the Luxembourg Phil who perform on this release are, while never slack, more relaxed, allowing d’Indy’s many felicities, flattened in more peremptory readings, to open and glow. Sound is immediate and detailed without being either overbearing or cramped. And a small, richly informed essay by Michel Stockhem confects a final elegance. To newcomers and d’Indy aficionados alike, enthusiastically recommended.

-- Adrian Corleonis, FANFARE

More review:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/vincent-dindy-musique-de-chambre-mw0001392187

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Vincent d'Indy (27 March 1851 – 2 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. He was a student of César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris. Inspired by his own studies with Franck and dissatisfied with the standard of teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris, d'Indy, together with Charles Bordes and Alexandre Guilmant, founded the Schola Cantorum de Paris in 1894. His students included Isaac Albéniz, Arthur Honegger, Albéric Magnard, Darius Milhaud, Albert Roussel, Erik Satie and many more. As a composer, d'Indy's best known works are probably his Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français and Istar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_d'Indy

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