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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Vincent d'Indy - Orchestral Works Vol. 2 (Rumon Gamba)


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Composer: Vincent d'Indy
  1. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 57: I. Extrêmememt lent - Très vif
  2. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 57: II. Modérément lent
  3. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 57: III. Modéré - Très animé
  4. Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 57: IV. Lent
  5. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 36: I. Préambule
  6. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 36: II. En Marche
  7. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 36: III. Le Glas
  8. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 36: IV. Lac Vert
  9. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 36: V. La Poste
  10. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 36: VI. Rêve
  11. Karadec, suite from incidental music, Op. 34: I. Prélude
  12. Karadec, suite from incidental music, Op. 34: II. Chanson
  13. Karadec, suite from incidental music, Op. 34: III. Noce Bretonne

Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Date: 2009
Label: Chandos
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010514

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Review

Everything is fine and dandy in these polished, bright-eyed performances

On record, at least, Vincent d’Indy’s star is well and truly in the ascendant. Thierry Fischer’s recent BBC NOW recording of the epic Wallenstein (Hyperion, 4/09) was a joy, and now Rumon Gamba (in the second volume of his d’Indy series for Chandos) gives us an even grander edifice in the shape of the Second Symphony. Composed in 1902-03 and inscribed to Dukas, this a tightly interwoven, bracingly inventive utterance lasting some three quarters of an hour, whose absorbing progress is waymarked by two motto themes heard at the very outset. Some of the material also betrays the influence of the tangily colourful folk music of d’Indy’s native Ardèche region (try the third movement with its two contrasting trio sections). It’s a work which seems to gain in stature each time I revisit it and to which lovers of the Chausson, Dukas and Magnard symphonies should most certainly gravitate.

Both couplings prove extremely fetching discoveries. The three-movement Karadec suite of 1890 derives from incidental music for a little-known play by André Alexandre, while the six wholly disarming yet subtly interconnected vignettes that make up the 1892 Tableaux de voyage (evocative impressions of a hike through the Black Forest and Tyrol) are in fact exquisitely judged orchestrations of solo piano pieces from three years previously.

None of the three previous recordings of the symphony (under Monteux, Plasson and DePreist) survived very long in the catalogue, so Gamba’s vibrant yet cogent interpretation plugs a glaring gap. As before, the playing of the Iceland SO combines commendable polish and contagious dedication, and Chandos’s sound has both tangible presence and enticing glow. What a very good CD this is; bring on the next instalment!

-- Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone

More reviews:
ClassicsToday  ARTISTIC QUALITY: 8 / SOUND QUALITY: 9
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Oct09/Dindy_chan10514.htm
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/c/cha10514a.php
http://www.allmusic.com/album/vincent-dindy-orchestral-works-vol-2-mw0001877045
http://www.amazon.com/Vincent-dIndy-Orchestral-Symphony-Tableaux/dp/B001U4XZTS

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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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Rumon Gamba (born 24 November 1972), is an English conductor. He studied conducting with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Gamba was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2010. In October 2008, he was named the next chief conductor and music director of NorrlandsOperan. In March 2011, Gamba was named chief conductor of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. Gamba has conducted a number of recordings for the Chandos Records label, particularly in their Film Music series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumon_Gamba

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