A student of Franck, Vincent d’Indy founded the Schola Cantorum de Paris where he taught for many years. He was also a conductor, with a busy schedule of international touring. His compositions were permeated by the influence of Wagner—he attended the premiere of the Ring cycle—but in time he also absorbed the influence of French folk music, especially from the Vivarais, his ancestral home.
Vincent d’Indy’s large-scale Piano Sonata is one of a small but masterful sequence of non-programmatic instrumental works that he wrote in the first decade of the 20th century. Notable for a novel application of variation form in its opening movement it fuses experimentation with expressive power. Poetic atmospheres and landscapes are evoked in the Tableaux de voyage, postcards of his walks in Germany.
This recording was made on a modern instrument: Steinway, Model D
Tracklist
Piano Sonata, Op. 63 (1907) (00:35:00 ) 1 I. Modéré: [Introduction] - (00:04:14) 2 I. Variation 1: Un peu plus animé - (00:01:44) 3 I. Variation 2: Lent - (00:02:10) 4 I. Variation 3: Plus vite - (00:02:26) 5 I. Variation 4: Modérément animé - (00:01:51) 6 I. Premier mouvement du thème - (00:01:23) 7 I. Thema mutatum (00:03:03) 8 II. Très animé - (00:00:48) 9 II. Un peu moins vite - (00:02:04) 10 II. Premier mouvement: Très animé - (00:00:30) 11 II. [bars 99-156] - (00:02:05) 12 II. Au mouvement (00:01:48) 13 III. Modéré - (00:02:43) 14 III. Même mouvement - (00:01:21) 15 III. Un peu plus animé - (00:00:26) 16 III. Au mouvement - (00:01:56) 17 III. Premier mouvement - (00:02:27) 18 III. Thema premier mouvement - (00:01:02) 19 III. Au mouvement - (00:01:15) 20 III. Un peu plus animé - (00:00:33) 21 III. [bars 245-287] - (00:01:54) 22 III. Au mouvement - (00:01:37) 23 III. Thema: Très large et puissant (00:03:41)
Tableaux de voyage, Op. 33 (1889) (00:37:00 ) 24 No. 1. ? (00:01:48) 25 No. 3. Pâturage (00:02:54) 26 No. 4. Lac Vert (00:02:13) 27 No. 5. Le Glas (00:02:55) 28 No. 11. Beuron (00:02:07) 29 No. 12. La Pluie (00:05:20) 30 No. 13. Rêve (00:05:53)
