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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Vincent d'Indy - Poème des rivages; Istar; Diptyque méditerranéen (Emmanuel Krivine)


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Composer: Vincent d'Indy
  1. Poèmes des rivages (Poem of the shores), Op. 77: I. Calme et lumière, Agay (Méditerranée)
  2. Poèmes des rivages (Poem of the shores), Op. 77: II. La Joie du bleu profond, Miramar de Mallorca (Méditerranée)
  3. Poèmes des rivages (Poem of the shores), Op. 77: III. Horizons verts, Falconara (Adriatique)
  4. Poèmes des rivages (Poem of the shores), Op. 77: IV. Le Mystère de l’océan, La Grande Côte (Golf de Gascogne)
  5. Istar, symphonic variations, Op. 42
  6. Diptyque méditerranéen, Op. 87: I. Soleil Matinal
  7. Diptyque méditerranéen, Op. 87: II. Soleil vespéral

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

Date: 2006
Label: Timpani
http://timpani-records.com/1c1101.php

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Review

The mellow fruits of a late love show everything’s fine and D’Indy

Vincent d’Indy is another late-19th/early-20th-century composer who is all but forgotten. A Franck and Wagner disciple, he reacted obstinately against “modern” contemporaries, even Ravel, although he admired the Debussy of L’après-midi and the Nocturnes.

The widowed D’Indy fell ardently in love, which was reciprocated, with a student 36 years his junior and the straitlaced Roman Catholic musician suddenly acknowledged the underlying sensuality of his nature. He was already working on the Poème des rivages but the music’s pantheistic feeling blossomed when he and his young bride went to live at Agay on the Mediterranean. The rich orchestral colours of these four seascapes develop an expressive radiance in his luminous scoring. It is not another La mer, for the third-movment Scherzo wittily evokes a country train journey. But the final scene, “Le mystère de l’océan”, depicts the sea’s unpredictability and violence. The Diptyque méditerranéen followed, a mellow view of two landscapes seen from his home. But the impressionism is less potent than in the sea evocations.

Istar tells of the Assyrian godess who (like Orpheus and Eurydice in reverse) seeks to retrieve her lover from the realm of the dead. She must pass through six doors, at each removing a garment, until, naked, she reaches her destination. The work is a set of variations using a simple three-note motif as a basis and Krivine makes the most of its sensuous feeling. All three performances are of a high order: the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra are at home in these scores and their conductor finds moments of genuine rapture.

-- Ivan March, Gramophone

More reviews:
ClassicsToday ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9
http://www.allmusic.com/album/vincent-dindy-orchestral-works-po%C3%A8me-des-rivages-istar-diptyque-m%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9en-mw0001847761
http://www.amazon.com/Vincent-dIndy-Rivages-Diptyque-Mediterraneen/dp/B000F5FQ4U
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vincent-dIndy-Rivages-Diptyque-Mediterraneen/dp/B000F5FQ4U

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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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Emmanuel Krivine (born 7 May 1947 in Grenoble) is a French conductor. Krivine studied at the Premier Prix at the Paris Conservatoire and the Queen Elisabeth School in Brussels. He was music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (1987-2000), the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra (2006-2015), and also served as music director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes for 11 years. In June 2016, the Orchestre National de France announced the appointment of Krivine as its next music director. He has conducted recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon, Warner Classics, Timpani, and Naive labels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Krivine

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