Florent Schmitt - Ombres I. J'entends dans le lontain... [Piano and Orchestra] скачать в хорошем качестве

Florent Schmitt - Ombres I. J'entends dans le lontain... [Piano and Orchestra]

Happy 150th Birthday, Florent! (28 September 1870 - 17 August 1958) Sorry, this was meant to be uploaded yesterday but I didn't have time to publish the video. Vincent Larderet, piano Orchestre Symphonique de l'Estuaire, conducted by Daniel Kawka Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit is justly recognized as that composer’s most towering achievement in piano keyboard writing.  Composed in 1908, this set of three pieces (Ondine, Le Gibet, Scarbo) which take their inspiration from a book by Aloysius Bertrand, are the most technically demanding and revolutionary of Ravel’s piano works. Far less well-known but equally impressive is a similar set of three piano pieces by Florent Schmitt, composed between 1912 and 1917.  This suite is Ombres, Op. 64 (Shadows) — and likewise, many musicians regard it as Schmitt’s most complex, demanding work for solo piano. The Canadian pianist Leslie d'Ath has written this about Ombres: “This ambitious score shows Schmitt at the height of his impressionistic style, outdoing Debussy and even Ravel in the complexity of the texture, harmony and configuration.  The music is a phantasmagoria of despair, defiance, terror, poignancy, evanescence and tenderness – a fiendish protean counterpart to Ravel’s Scarbo and, in the latter’s own words, ‘a caricature of Romanticism.’” To produce such sounds, one would think that Florent Schmitt must have drawn inspiration from equally rich and fervent sources – and that turns out to be case in two of the first 2 movements. The first piece in the set is titled “J’entends dans le lointain …” and draws inspiration from a passage from Comte de Lautréamont's violent and nihilistic novel "Les Chants de Maldoror" (“I hear in the distance drawn-out cries of the most poignant grief.”).