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For me, the palm goes to the delightful and generally ignored Saugefleurie, where duty bows before inspiration. Throughout, the playing is warm and unfussy. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2013
Catalogue No: CHAN10760
Label: Chandos
Series: d’Indy Orchestral Works
Length: 73 minutes

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Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard, Op. 25

Work length26:37

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Rumon Gamba, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Louis Lortie
Recorded: 29 October - 1 November 2012
Recording Venue: Eldborg, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland

I. Assez lent

Track length12:00

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II. Assez modéré, mais sans lenteur

Track length7:21

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III. Animé

Track length7:16

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Indy: Fervaal, Op. 40, Act I: Prelude

Work length5:22

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Rumon Gamba, Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 29 November - 1 December 2011
Recording Venue: Eldborg, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland

Indy: Saugefleurie, Op. 21

Work length16:01

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$5.20

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Rumon Gamba, Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 29 October - 1 November 2012
Recording Venue: Eldborg, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland

I. Assez lent et calme

Track length4:32

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II. Gaîment, mais modéré

Track length2:48

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III. Assez lent et calme

Track length3:42

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IV. Tempo I (un peu plus vite)

Track length4:59

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Indy: Médée, Op. 47

Work length25:30

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Rumon Gamba, Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 29 November - 1 December 2011
Recording Venue: Eldborg, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland

I. Prélude. Très lent

Track length8:52

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II. Pantomime. Assez lent

Track length3:15

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III. L'Attente de Médée. Très lent

Track length5:09

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IV. Médée et Jason. Modérément animé

Track length3:55

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V. Le Triomphe Auroral. Très lent

Track length4:19

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This is Volume 5 in our series dedicated to the orchestral works of Vincent d’Indy, nicknamed ‘The Samson of Music’ by Fauré, for his work as a composer, conductor, and teacher. His style was essentially eclectic, strongly influenced by Beethoven and Wagner, into which he frequently incorporated folk melodies.

Based on a folk tune from the Tourtous, the Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français is today one of the best-loved works by d’Indy. This highly atmospheric work is scored for piano and orchestra; however, far from engaging in conflict with the orchestra, the soloist here operates on equal terms. The solo part is performed by the internationally acclaimed pianist Louis Lortie.

The symphonic poem Saugefleurie tells the story of the tragic love between Saugefleurie, a lonely yet charming little fairy, and the King’s son, based on a poem from the Contes de fees by Robert de Bonnières, a friend of the composer’s. The Wagnerian influence is apparent throughout; however, in terms of orchestration and sonority this work remains characteristically French.

Among the now forgotten works of the French poet, novelist, and dramatist Catulle Mendès is the play Medée, based on the Greek myth of Medea, who murdered her two sons in revenge for her rejection by her lover Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. D’Indy wrote incidental music to the play in 1898, and later preserved it in the form of an orchestral suite in five movements, recorded here.

Also on the theme of doomed love is d’Indy’s first opera, Fervaal, a work of Wagnerian scale and proportions, and clearly displaying the influence of Parsifal in the complex network of leitmotivs. At the same time, in its historical setting at the time of the Saracen invasion, and in its musical evocation of local colour, it reflects the earlier Parisian Grand Opéra of Meyerbeer and Halévy.

This recording is the first ever made at Harpa, the new concert hall in Reykjavik, which opened its doors to the public in May 2011, and was subsequently named by Gramophone one of the greatest concert halls of the new millennium.

Reviews

August 2013

For me, the palm goes to the delightful and generally ignored Saugefleurie, where duty bows before inspiration. Throughout, the playing is warm and unfussy.

June 2013

d'Indy is his own man, conjuring up fragrant atmosphere from his mountain theme and generating a good deal of healthy vigour in the finale. All this is potently communicated by the orchestral playing and by Louis Lortie's scintillating fluency in the piano obbligato.

May 2013

Lortie is so sensitively attuned to a piano part whose sheer dexterity is partly offset only by its frequent self-effacement...Gamba yields very little to Andre Cluytens in terms of his identity with a work that is well deserving of revival.

11th April 2013

the mixture of post-Wagnerian chromaticism and refined orchestral sensuousness is typical of a style that left an indelible impression on French music for decades. The performances, from the Iceland Symphony under Rumon Gamba, are faultless. Louis Lortie is the restrained yet dexterous soloist in the Symphonie.

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