Vincent D'Indy - Symphony No.1; Concerto for Piano, Flute, Cello & Strings

Vincent D'INDY (1851-1931)

Symphony No.1 "Italian" in A Major (1870-72)

Concerto in E Flat Major for Piano, Flute, Cello & Strings, Op. 89 (1926)

Brigitte Engerer (piano)

Magali Mosnier (flute)

Marc Coppey (cello)

Orchestre de Bretagne

Lionel Bringuier

Recorded: September 2007, Rennes

These works, the first and last orchestral works d'Indy wrote, are in different ways, hommages. Although his main musical sympathies lay elsewhere, a sojourn in Italy inspired the young composer to write a Symphonie italienne using Rome, Florence, Venice and Naples as the basis for the four movements in which the influence and model of Mendelssohn's Italian symphony are inescapable. At one point, I'm reminded incongruously of Randall Thompson's third symphony!

The concerto at first evokes J.S. Bach and eventually becomes a sort of neo-classical concerto grosso. This rarely-recorded music helps to round out our knowledge of the composer who to many would perhaps be known only by his Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français)

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