Vincent d'Indy - String Quartet No. 3 in D flat Major
Вставка
- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- - Composer: Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (27 March 1851 -- 2 December 1931)
- Performers: Quatuor Joachim
- Year of recording: 2001
String Quartet No. 3 in D flat major, Op. 96, written in 1928-1929.
00:00 - I. Entrée en Sonate (Lentement)
09:59 - II. Intermède (Assez joyeux)
14:34 - III. Thême varié (Assez lent)
24:32 - IV. Finale en rondeau (Lentement)
More than 30 years separate d'Indy's 2nd String Quartet from 1897 [uploaded on this channel] from his 3rd, composed over 1928-1929 as he passed his 78th birthday. Between the Violin Sonata (1903-1904) and the Piano Quintet (1924), apart from a few small pieces and arrangements, d'Indy composed no chamber music, being preoccupied with administrative duties at his music school, the Schola Cantorum -- funded with his fortune and for which he wrote the course -- and composition of his musical testament, La Légende de Saint Christophe (1908-1915), into which he crammed his medievalism, his Catholicism, his enormous erudition, his bigotry and anti-Semitism, and his loathing for the rising tide of Modernism.
The preceding quartets, challenged by the prestige the form commanded owing to Beethoven's spate of masterpieces, evinced a preoccupation with form, compensating for a habitual absence of melodic afflatus (especially the 2nd), constricting the unusual lyricism of the First and generating a curious aridity in the monothematic Second. With the death of his wife in 1905, d'Indy's already highly organized approach to composition took on a systematic rigidity and chef d'école self-consciousness as his general outlook soured. The attendant heaviness began to dissipate only toward the end of the Great War when a chance encounter with a sympathetic young woman, Caroline Janson, took a romantic turn leading to marriage in 1920 and that amazing series of late masterpieces attesting a puissant rejuvenation -- the scintillant Poème des ravages, its companion Diptyque méditerranéen for orchestra, and a half-dozen chamber works rife with joy, the Third Quartet among them. It is not that d'Indy has become a fetching melodist in his old age -- his themes are serviceable rather than memorable -- but supreme technique is animated by potent feeling, the return of his considerable charm, and a generally relaxed geniality. It was no longer necessary for every new work to be an audacious coup de maître, though the Third Quartet qualifies.
From the opening bars there is lift, cordiality -- ecstasy, even -- managed by a master hand. The welcoming mien is confirmed by a two-page notice explicative prefacing the score [included at the beginning of the video] in which the work's formal design is spelled out -- after a brief introduction a compact sonata first movement, passionate yet smiling; a candid Intermède set off by a trio of ravishing tendresse; a slender theme becoming ever more persuasive through seven brief but elaborate variations; and a rondo finale with five refrains leading through nostalgia-laced joy to a triumphant peroration.
The Quatuor Calvet gave the premiere at a Société Nationale concert on 12 April 1930; the quartet is also dedicated to them: "au Quatuor CALVET: Joseph Calvet, Daniel Guilevitch, Léon Pascal et Paul Mas."
Vincent d'Indy seems to be a very wrongfully underrated and forgotten composer. Thank you olla-vogala for making us discover his awesome music! This string quartet is a pure gem!!
+sonicsnap117 Yes it's wonderful! Thank you :)
@@olla-vogala4090 -- Yes, Awesome and Wonderful......BRAVO from Acapulco!
I'm a young aspiring composer and I have to say you have an incredible channel, thank you so much!! Very inspirational stuff here.
+LeftEar Soruz Thank you, and that's great to hear! Keep up with the composing, we need more of you :)
same
Thank you. This channel is like a miracle for all musicians.
Thank you. First time I have heard this work, and a marvel it is.
Pour moi, le plus beau et le plus personnel de ses quatuors...❤
Subtil et profond... le régal !
Je ne connaissais pas ce compositeur, juste de nom, et je le trouve vraiment génial! La presentation est bien faite aussi, je suis altiste et ça m'aide beaucoup de lire la partition tout en écoutant le morceau! Continuez c'est un beau concept!
Many thanks, for this really great quartet, the most beautiful of the three complete quartets. Regrettable the fourth is unfinished.
An unusual key for strings is it not? Clearly the reflection of a soul that fortune smiled upon, one can imagine the feelings this romanic liason must have brought to his life, like a gift, a gift that must have been like a rebirth that gave back to the world. I can hardly imagine a more fully mature statement that can be made than what we are hearing now. What more could anyone possibly want from a string quartette?
+scottbos68 I agree with your words, you can really hear the joy he must have experienced. Just compare this to any Shos string quartet... And D flat major is certainly an unusual key for strings!
I didn't say it but I was thinking it, this is much like a ray of sunshine amidst alot of doom and gloom from shellshock of "the great war" that was being produced around the same time by his contemporaries. Just goes to show how love can turn your life around. Somehow you said what i omitted, were you reading my mind again? LoL
Such a breathtaking piece!
Wonderful Discovery!
Thank you, great music !
Work of genius
Magnífico!!
Awesome!
GREAT VIDEO! THANKS!
I loved your prose intro, I learned much about d'Indy that I didn't know. I like this piece a lot, especially the variations. As with many sets of variations, I wish that some of them would be extended (of course that would ruin the overall proportions of the movement). I feel the same with Brahms variations as for example in the B-flat Sextet. Anyway, this quartet is definitely worth a second hearing.
On second hearing I find the variations are great as they stand and the finale is gorgeous and makes me want to explore d'Indy more. He is so rich in counterpoint. So many of the early Twentieth Century French composers have a temperament and technique that I find compelling, especially Ravel, Roussel, Francaix, and Les Six. But of course, Saint-Saens was an incredible influence and Debussy created his own world.
+Charles McHugh Yes this piece is definitely one that grows on you with a second hearing!
beautiful!
BRAVO from Mexico City!
Splendid
Hi olla!
I would like to thank you because since I suscribed to you some months ago I have discovered a lot of new composer and compositions.
I also would like to ask you:
Do you take any requests for future uploads?
+Torterra kart Thank you! Yes I do, but the to-do list is rather long so it will take some time I'm afraid... which piece would you like to see?
+olla-vogala
Walton Viola Concerto (played by Yuri Bashmet and the LSO)
And all Shostakovich string quartets set, like what you did with Bartók
It would be amazing (played by Emerson String Quartet)
And don't worry, I can wait until you finish the to-do list
Keep up the good work!
Torterra kart
I think I can make the Walton viola concerto pretty quickly, it was already on my list ;)
schöne Sendung!
Love D Flat Major
◑ 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 ◐
Слишком,хорошо,вернее,прекрасно....
А, лётчики,то полетели,пока мы слушали прекрасную музыку,им не до музыки ....мужики русские
Please watch this at the lowest quality only (144p) since it's just for the music, which is much more ecologically responsible than at a higher rate. Watching this at 240p (which is unnecessary for listening purposes), will increase the bandwith by double to almost tenfold! At 1080 the bandwith is augmented by a factor of 100!
The use of digital technology accounts for 4% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, as much as the emissions from the world's truck fleet. Of that, a BIG part comes from livestreaming videos, mainly 3 sources : UA-cam, Netflix and porn.
Let's enjoy this beautiful music by being aware and responsible, doing our little part in decreasing our carbon footprint and protecting this wonderful planet for the generations to come.
Lmao
Они не братья с Сен-Сансом,