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Download Booklet 570444bk Tournier:570034bk Hasse 4/6/09 10:56 AM Page 8 Le Quintette date de 1932, l’une des premières années musicaux, et sous l’influence de son professeur Vincent de la prolifique carrière de Françaix. Le bref premier d’Indy, finit par se faire connaître comme un compositeur mouvement, Andante tranquillo, présente un aspect au style néoclassique extrêmement individuel. Si son sens FRENCH FLUTE gracieux et tendre. La limpide mélodie est confiée à la flûte, du chromatisme lui venait sans doute de la tradition de les cordes et la harpe soutenant la régularité rythmique. Un Wagner et Franck, il sut finalement trouver une marque vif Scherzo à 3/4 marqué Presto, léger, délicat et unique et distinctive. CHAMBER MUSIC virevoltant, évoque une danse. La stabilité atteint un pic La Sérénade nous montre un Roussel parvenu au faîte d’agitation vers la section centrale du mouvement, et à de sa période néoclassique. A partir du milieu des années partir de là l’ensemble de cordes et la flûte se joignent à 1920, il s’intéressa plus particulièrement à la discipline et Tournier • Schmitt • Pierné l’exaltation générale. Le mouvement s’achève par un retour à la structure de la musique de chambre. Dédiée au flûtiste de l’esprit de sa section d’ouverture. L’Andante, sur un René le Roy, la Sérénade met en valeur, de par sa nature schéma alterné de mesures à 5/4 et 3/4, évoque les même, le rôle de l’instrument à vent. L’ouvrage est souple Françaix • Roussel souvenirs d’une simple mélodie appartenant à un passé et gracieux, teinté d’un certain humour rare chez Roussel. lointain. Le quatrième mouvement, Rondo, s’appuie sur la Le premier mouvement Allegro obéit à la forme-sonate, chanson comique populaire “Savez-vous planter les choux” son trait le plus frappant étant son flux rythmique interne. Mirage Quintet et donne une impression de mouvement perpétuel, comme Le second mouvement Andante débute par un dessin une course joyeuse et juvénile. mélodique confié à la flûte et joué au-dessus des harmonies Albert Roussel : Sérénade op. 30 pour Flûte, Harpe, lentement changeantes des cordes, formant un brocart aux Violon, Alto et Violoncelle textures et aux coloris délicats. Avec la ravissante entrée de Devenu orphelin à sept ans, marin dès l’âge de dix-huit la harpe, le mouvement atteint son niveau d’expression le ans, les hasards de la vie et ses propres choix firent de plus intense. L’énergie du troisième mouvement Presto, Roussel un homme éloigné des modes. Le sentiment de forme ternaire, progresse avec légèreté jusqu’à une d’isolement qu’il éprouva très jeune, à la fois du point de conclusion débonnaire. vue familial et de l’éducation musicale traditionnelle, lui La Sérénade fut composée à la fin de l’été 1925 et fut permit de cultiver sa propre identité artistique. Pendant créée en octobre de cette même année lors d’un festival toutes ses années de service dans la Marine, Roussel parvint organisé par le Société Musicale indépendante de Paris. à mener des études indépendantes, mais en 1894 il démissionna et partit à Paris poursuivre une carrière de Renée Silberman, 2008 musicien. Roussel absorba toute la palette des idiomes Traduction: David Ylla-Somers C M Y K 8.570444 8 570444bk Tournier:570034bk Hasse 4/6/09 10:56 AM Page 2 French Chamber Music for Flute, Harp and Strings Marcel Tournier : Suite op. 34 Vigueur, élégance et passion sont parmi les attributs de Marcel Tournier (1879-1951): Suite, Op. 34 Marcel Tournier, interprète, pédagogue et compositeur la Suite en rocaille. Cette pièce fut présentée le 21 juin Florent Schmitt (1870-1958): Suite en rocaille, Op. 84 éminent, était une figure phare parmi les harpistes et les 1937 durant le quinzième Festival de la Société Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937): Variations libres et finale, Op. 51 aficionados de cet instrument. Tournier ne fut pas internationale de Musique Contemporaine, et Nicolas Slonimski en parla comme d’“une œuvre dans un élégant Jean Françaix (1912-1997): Quintette uniquement un important défenseur de la théorie et de la pratique de la harpe : sa singularité de musicien fut une style rococo signée Florent Schmitt, doyen des modernistes Albert Roussel (1869-1937): Sérénade, Op. 30 source d’inspiration pour de nombreux compositeurs, et français.” The magic and originality of fin-de-siècle French aesthetics Constantly exploring the tonal possibilities of the harp, notamment Fauré, qui composa des œuvres pour le maître (Henri Constant) Gabriel Pierné : Variations libres et were not the result of spontaneous combustion, but rather an Tournier advanced the expressive capacity of his instrument. harpiste. finale op. 51 unusual confluence of historic happenings. In music, the The opening movement, Soir, begins in a plaintive vein Tournier apporta sa propre contribution au répertoire Pierné joua un rôle assez important dans les progrès épiques nascent search for a fresh voice was magnetically drawn at which is succeeded by a sweep of accelerated momentum, pour harpe avec des compositions qui exploitaient tout le de la musique française au tournant du XXè siècle. Plus the outset to the potent Wagnerian model; however, in the eventually returning to a pensive conclusion. The second potentiel de cet instrument. La Suite révèle bon nombre qu’un témoin des temps, c’était un conservateur de la wake of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), political movement Danse is scored as lushly as a tropical breeze. A des qualités associées à la musique française du XXè tradition romantique et du répertoire français du XIXè tensions subtly effected a desire for emancipation from languid melody belongs to the flute, but the harp, in its siècle : des tournures de phrases raffinées, des textures et siècle. Ami de toujours de Debussy, Pierné employa sa Germanic cultural values. Composers found inspiration in surging fullness, provides the foundation of the movement. des coloris limpides. Explorant sans relâche les possibilités profonde intelligence musicale pour condenser les éléments literature and visual art or they took a serious look at the pre- The third movement Lied is introspective and thoughtful, tonales de la harpe, Tournier fit progresser les capacités essentiels du style moderne. La première qualité qu’on lui Romantic musical traditions of their own land. The while the fourth, Fête, contains poetic elements, by turns expressives de son instrument. reconnaissait était l’élégance. distinctive flavour of French music of the late nineteenth serious and playful. The writing is compact and richly Le mouvement initial, Soir, débute dans une veine Pierné composa ses Variations libres et finale en 1933 and early twentieth centuries evolved as part of a process of textured. plaintive ; après une accélération, c’est le retour du calme pour le Quintette instrumental de Paris. La combinaison self-discovery and renewal. Traits now associated with turn Florent Schmitt: Suite en rocaille, Op. 84 pour une conclusion pensive. Le second mouvement, de flûte, violon, alto, violoncelle et harpe permettait de of the century ideals included delicate shadings of sound, Florent Schmitt lived a full, robust life in the world of music. Danse, présente une orchestration aussi luxuriante qu’une confier à chaque instrument un rôle autonome, leur union exotic chromaticism and new rhythmic pulses. All the Composer, pianist, and critic, he viewed himself as an artist brise tropicale. Une langoureuse mélodie est confiée à la donnant à l’ensemble sa cohésion. L’écriture des Variations composers represented on this recording in their writings outside any particular school. The facts perhaps suggest flûte, mais c’est la harpe qui par sa plénitude donne au est virtuose, avec un contrepoint serré, une légèreté et une share attributes of clarity and refinement, brio, wittiness otherwise, at least concerning his rôle as a composer. mouvement son assise. Le troisième mouvement, Lied,est pureté dénotant sans doute l’influence de Ravel et de and a subtle sensuality that permeates the music of the Schmitt was a contemporary of Ravel, a fellow member of introspectif et songeur, tandis que le quatrième, Fête, Roussel, mais qui proviennent largement du propre cœur de period. The profound influence of Debussy and Ravel can Les Apaches, a group of young artists who joined together contient des éléments poétiques, tour à tour sérieux et Pierné. be felt in these works which are fruits of the first half of the for discussions of contemporary aesthetics. He studied under espiègles. L’écriture est compacte et la texture opulente. Le preste finale, sorte de divertissement destiné à mettre twentieth century and the culmination of a dramatic chapter Fauré and was greatly influenced by Debussy. His work Florent Schmitt : Suite en rocaille op. 84 les solistes en valeur, est écrit dans le mode lydien et ses in French art. shows definite links to the tradition of Impressionism. He Florent Schmitt mena une existence de musicien solide et rythmes débordent de vitalité. Une influence ibérique se Marcel Tournier: Suite, Op. 34 was a founding member of the Société Musicale actif. Compositeur, pianiste et critique, il se considérait fait jour vers sa conclusion, suivie de la réapparition de Marcel Tournier, distinguished performer, pedagogue and Indépendante in 1909. Off and on over many years Schmitt comme un artiste n’appartenant à aucune école particulière. l’exposition, à l’unisson, puis d’une évocation du récitatif composer, was a figure of great stature among harpists and contributed criticism to a number of important journals. Les faits semblent le contredire, du moins en ce qui du thème original. aficionados of the instrument. Tournier was not only a major Vigour, elegance and passion are attributes of the Suite concerne ses activités de compositeur. Schmitt était un Jean Françaix : Quintette pour Flûte, Violon, Alto, exponent of the theory and practice of the harp – his en rocaille.
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