Nadia Boulanger - 3 Pieces for cello and piano (audio + sheet music)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- At the turn of the 20th century, Paris culture tended to oscillate between the two extremes of elegant refinement and radical upheaval. Lili’s older sister Nadia Boulanger always chose the latter. Born in 1887, she was already enrolled in conservatory as an organ and composition student before the 19th century had finished. When her younger sister Lili Boulanger died in 1918, Nadia vowed she would never compose again. From then on she chose to conduct, teach composition and devote her life to the work of her departed sister. She started teaching in 1921 in Fontainebleau at the American Conservatory, of which she became director in 1948. Entire generations of composers were to call her nothing other than “Mademoiselle”, and she would live to the ripe age of 92 (1979).
Nadia Boulanger’s slim output included the Three Pieces for Cello and Piano which she wrote in 1915. The first piece in E flat minor features a long, extended cello melody with an Impressionist piano texture as accompaniment. The cello plays con sordino (muted), the pianist uses the soft pedal. In the second piece in A minor, the piano responds in close canon to the cello’s flippant figurations. The third piece in C sharp minor is a rough, grotesque dance with the indication “rapidly, with nervous rhythm."
(Naxos Music Library)
Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to a minimum of 480pf the video is blurry.
Original audio: • Nadia Boulanger: Trois...
(Performance by: Dora Kuzmin, cello; Petra Gilming, piano)
Original sheet music: imslp.org/wiki...)
I. 0:21
II. 2:48
III. 4:30
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I'm amazed I've never heard these three short pieces! What treat! The interaction between the piano and cello is absolutely masterful writing! Lovely music!
What a nice surprise...no wonder the great George Gershwin was her student...Wow...She and Clara - Wieck - Schumann...great women composers...
Thanks...
Gershwin, EgbertoGismonti, Ástor Piazzolla... some fine students
Wonderful music, she was not only an extraordinary teacher but also a great composer!
Nadia Boulanger est un modèle d enseignement que je ne me lasse pas de réécouter dans les rares vidéos à disposition. Ces oeuvres sont une rareté captivante où son âme plane. Et, en particulier celle à 5/8, 5 croches par mesure ce n est pas banal et cela crée un déséquilibre pourtant stable comme dans la nature. Merci Nadia !
I really like the third piece!You can hear this nervous rhythm and the dialogue between the piano and the cello is perfect.
Beautiful. The third is really interesting.
The first movement it's so minimal, that language appeared only in the 60's!!!
Juan Carlos Pianissimo you are right.
4:30 Shostakovich, is that you?
Yes! i hear it too but cant remember the piece. do you know it?
I really like the third piece!You can hear this nervous rhythm and the dialogue between the piano and the cello is perfect.
Third mvmt threw me off the first time listened to it. I could not for the life of me find the tonic.
The percussive audacity of the third piece is prophetic!
wtf does that even mean
En vous baladant dans les prés du présent, vous pouvez cueillir des bouquets de fleurs folles et improbables, revenir avec de somptueux extraits de cette musicienne sensible et écorchée et dire que vous gagnez parfois du temps à ignorer tant de ces musiques contemporaines pour enfin gagner en sérénité .... :-)
Nadia Boulanger composes as beautifully as her sister, Lili. Nadia is just as intelligent, maybe even more, as her sister, and, just as musico-poetically "inspired", maybe even more, as her sister, Llili!?!?!!!
This is truly fine a fine performance: both performers are are sensitive to the Composer's sense of style, poetry
Third movement is literally inverted cortege by lili boulanger LMAO
Una pieza muy bonita
Fauré was her teacher and you can definitely hear his influence in her harmony.
The first is pure genius
I never went to the conservatory .. I'm right when I say the third movement reminds me a bit at Bartok or Prokofiev ? ... I love cello...
They were around at the same time and probably all inspired each other. Their birthdates are all within 5 years of each other.
Little Fauré
Wonderful❣️Wow wow wow, I love this! Thanks a lot for sharing ❤️
Nadia Boulanger is just as a great composer, maybe even more, than her sister Lili!!!! Nadia was just as insired, with a poetically lofty and beautiful, Creativity, and sense of good taste!!!!
Both performrrs were truly very good. They understood this composer's own "Art World". They were, technically, fully suitable for Nadia Boulanger's output.
The Cellist had a fine tone and phrasing. The Pianist is simply superb in the Impressionist repertory, and, I am sure she could also be technically superb and expressive, in great style, in any other repertory!
Nadia what did you give up? We need no Copland, Glass nor Piazola. This world needs a Nadia Boulanger!
I agree. She and her sister, though outputs were limited, were full of works that defied tradition and opened up newer horizons. I dare say if she spent her life composing that she could've easily changed the world of music for the better.
She's indeed a great and gifted composer but her students are also great composers in their own right. I for one love Glass's compositions (who studied composition under Boulanger for a brief period of time).
She said her own pieces were worthless (when she was 20) and gave up in this area... Maybe the same character and creative "impulse" (élan in french) that she seeked in their students, was her biggest lack? Or maybe she felt so much better teaching than composing... and because of that she didnt feed her creative side by making thousand of pieces like many of her pupils.
PS: I am from Buenos Aires, life without Piazzolla wouldn´t be the same
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不超过1个小节就能听出是布朗热，不过分不清是姐姐还是妹妹。
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I love the third piece.
Short, but so intense and well written! Fantastic❣️
bravo
(( 👏🏽)) What a gem!
Lovely piece, as usual! I love the cello. Always sounds so comforting.
Très beau !
Mesmerizing
im the first!
Yes! And no-one will ever take that from you ;-)