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A shameless plug (if that's allowed?), in case anyone is interested. Our church choir is performing Vierne's Messe Solennelle in a concert this coming Saturday evening near Tunbridge Wells. Some more popular, short pieces follow and the concert ends with Parry's extended (and infrequently performed, so far as I can tell) anthem 'Hear my Words, ye People'.
PM me if interested and I can supply more details (e.g. where and when) - free refreshments as well, if the programme is insufficiently tempting on its own!
I'm assuming that blatant concert advertising is frowned upon, hence no specific details provided here - let me know if I'm wrong and I'll add them.
Hosts please feel free to remove this post (and accept my apologies) if it breaks forum rules or etiquette in any way!
I'm sure nobody on this forum will object, Rolmill; I'm always plugging jazz gigs I am about to attend, then reporting on them afterwards, and no one pays the blindest bit of attention!
Thanks though for reminding me - I must get on with my introductions here: plenty of opportunity is presented by the weather keeping me indoors!
Jean Cartan: Introduction et Allegro for Piano and Wind QuintetFrederic Sánchez Muñoz, fluteMarc Lachat, oboeMiquel Ramos Salvadó, clarinetMaria José García ...
Pierre Capdevielle (1906-1969) (France)« Concerto del dispetto » for piano and orchestra (1959)Pianist : Agnelle BundervoëtDir : Manuel Rosenthal 1- Capricci...
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Jacques Chailley (1910 - 1999) lived a particularly rich musical life - one too detailed to go into in depth here; but from Wiki we find out that he studied composition in the round with Nadia Boulanger and Claude Delvincourt, and subsequently conducting with Pierre Monteux, Willem Mengelberg and Bruno Walter, became a musicologist specialising in Mediaeval music, co-founding a theatre group devoted to antique plays, and in his field elucidating the evolution of musical language from the Baroque to the Romantic. Controversy persists over allegations of role in the blocking of Jewish students from entering the Paris Conservatory in 1942 while under his charge, but Chailley is szaid to have protected his students from press-ganging into work for the Nazis, was involved in the CP-led Resistance against the Nazi occupation, alongside a number of fellow composers, and escaped POW imprisonment. Further prestigious official posts fell to him during the remainder of his life.
Chailley's compostional background in Ravel and Roussel was refracted through a lifelong passion for Mediaeval music, though he himself can best be described as Neo-Romantic. Here is his triumphant First Symphony of 1945:
Auteur : Yves Baudrier (1906-1988)Titre : Le Grand voilier pour orchestre, poème symphonique (1939)Interprètes : Manuel Rosenthal ; Orchestre National de l'O...
Auteur : Jean-Louis Martinet (1912-2010)Titre : Orphée, triptyque symphonique (1944-45)Structure : 1. Orphée devant Eurydice (0:00) ;2. La Descente aux Enf...
and from the Mouvement Symphonique No 1, the first example of the post-serial turnaround: listeners may detect echoes of Panufnik, Lutoslawsky or Bacewicz in the vigorous strings writing of the main part, and what one can only describe as wholesale borrowings from the conclusion of Honegger's Liturgique, presented in the spirit of a transcendental Messiaen organ coda:
Apologies if this has been covered above but Samazeuilh's string quartet is a stunner... Sounds a bit like Debussy's work in the same genre. You'd never say that this was by an almost unknown composer...
Apologies if this has been covered above but Samazeuilh's string quartet is a stunner... Sounds a bit like Debussy's work in the same genre. You'd never say that this was by an almost unknown composer...
Thanks, mathias. Gustave Samazeuilh falls rather before the period I had in mind for this thread, but not having previously heard of him I am grateful for your mentioning him, and I will investigate sometime.
Many thanks, S_A - looking forward to investigating the work of these composers.
And thanks in return for the appreciation ferney. I find the music of that particular sub-generation of French music particularly rich and potentially enduring, and given the accessibility of most of it to the lover of, let's say, Prokofiev or Martinu, I find it surprising that Radio 3 has overlooked most of these composers for as long as I can remember.
Of Polish descent, the music of Marcel Landowski (1915 - 1999) lies firmly within what might be described as a post-Rousselian French symphonic tradition, and in style is close to Honegger, who recognised his abilities and gave encouragement from the start of Landowski's compositional career. As such he continues a lineage that withstood the qualitative aesthetic shift represented by Messiaen's serially-orientated students - if not by Messiaen himself, whom they respected - and, as Honegger pupil Harry Halbreich has said, voiced its criticism of the new trends towards abstraction in no uncertain terms. Inspired by religious subjects, Landowski did not share Honegger's growing scepticism. The symphonies available on youtube show the evolution of thought: here are the first and third, respectively from 1949 and 1964:
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