Vincent d'Indy - Symphonie ''Italienne''; Concert (Lionel Bringuier; Brigitte Engerer)

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Composer: Vincent d'Indy

1. Symphony in A minor "Italienne": I. Rome. Andante maestoso - Allegro ma non troppo
2. Symphony in A minor "Italienne": II. Florence. Allegro vivace
3. Symphony in A minor "Italienne": III. Venise. Andante, sans lenteur
4. Symphony in A minor "Italienne": IV. Naples. Saltarelle : Allegro ma non troppo
5. Concert in E flat major, for piano, flute, cello & strings, Op. 89: I. Modéré, mais bien décidé
6. Concert in E flat major, for piano, flute, cello & strings, Op. 89: II. Lent et expressif
7. Concert in E flat major, for piano, flute, cello & strings, Op. 89: III. Mouvement de ronde française

(5-7) Brigitte Engerer, piano
Magali Mosnier, flute
Marc Coppey, cello

Orchestre de Bretagne
Lionel Bringuier, conductor

Date: 2007
Label: Timpani
http://timpani-records.com/1c1125.php

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Review

PERFORMANCE: ***** / SOUND: ****

How many Italian Symphonies end with a saltarello? Now you can say ‘both’. Vincent d’Indy’s saltarello remained unperformed until 2005, never published in its day and forgotten even by its composer along with the rest of this early effort – those opening three movements were at least played through by Jules Pasdeloup’s orchestra in the 1870s. That finale proves attractive and well made if over-extended, as is the opening movement with its characteristic conflict between Christianity (Weber-like horns) and paganism (growling trombones), catching fire at the triumph of the horns. More concisely, the Scherzo scampers and sings like Mendelssohn’s string music and, for d’Indy, there’s an unusually lyrical and fluent Andante. For most, the disc’s raison d’être will be the Triple Concerto, a real gem written more than half a century later and running its three-movement course from Baroque to distilled Romantic to folk-dance in just over 20 minutes. The serene simplicity recalls in spirit, if not language, the late music of Saint-Saëns. Eloquent flute solos grace its middle movement where the cello later rises to intense heights and the pianist relishes the Bachian opening and laconic cadenza.Within a resonant acoustic the orchestra sounds polished and energetic; the smallish, lithe string section is on equal terms with personable woodwind under a conductor who is starting to make an international mark – this is his first recording.

-- Robert Maycock, BBC Music Magazine

More review:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/vincent-dindy-symphony-no-1-italienne-concerto-for-piano-flute-cello-strings-mw0001585959

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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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Lionel Bringuier (born 24 September 1986, Nice, France) is a French conductor, cellist and pianist. He studied at the Nice conservatory, and then at the Conservatoire de Paris. Bringuier was assistant conductor, then promoted to associate conductor and later to resident conductor of  the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 2009 to 2012, Bringuier was Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Valladolid, Spain). In October 2012, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich named Bringuier as its next chief conductor and music director, as of the 2014-2015 season, with an initial contract of 4 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Bringuier

http://lionelbringuier.com/

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