"Concerto de l'Adieu" by Georges Delerue, Reaction/Analysis by Musician/Producer

"Concerto de l'Adieu" by Georges Delerue, Reaction/Analysis by Musician/Producer
Original Video: • Georges Delerue - Conc...
The Movie.
Diên Biên Phu (French for Điện Biên Phủ) is a French 1992 epic war film written and directed by French veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. With its huge budget, all-star cast, and realistic war scenes produced with the cooperation of both the French and Vietnamese armed forces, Dîen Bîen Phu is regarded by many as one of the more important war movies produced in French filmmaking history. It portrays the 55-day siege of Dien Bien Phu (1954), the last battle by the French Union's colonial army in the First Indochina War during the final days of French Indochina, which was soon after divided into North and South Vietnam. This was a prelude to the Second Indochina War, known in the United States as the Vietnam War.
Phil's Comments.
Delerue is one of my favorite films' musics' composers. Born in France in 1925, he died in California, where he was buried in 1992, and enjoyed a prolific career spanning almost half a century, composing over 300 film scores. Delerue, like Morricone, Rota and Williams - to name but a few - was a musician with a very solid classical training. Long before he made his name in the film world, he wrote some of the most serious concertante works, before going on to write numerous scores for the theater and Jean Vilar, particularly for the famous Festival d'Avignon. This was followed by decisive encounters with Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon Amour) and François Truffaut (Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent, La Nuit américaine, L'Amour en fuite, Le Dernier Métro, etc.), which brought the musician international recognition.
Delerue's style is unmistakable. He is an accomplished melodist with an inimitable art for creating evocative themes infused with nostalgia or melancholy. The Concerto de l'Adieu, literally translated as "The Farewell Concerto", evokes one of the tragic pages of French history: the defeat of colonial troops despite their heroism in the face of the Việt Minh during the siege of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. In this slow single-movement violin concerto, a kind of elegy to peace, Delerue refuses to be apologetic. He takes no side, and mourns without pathos all those who have fallen. Wars are curses. No doubt Delerue will have pondered the words of the great French writer Paul Valery: "War is the slaughter of people who don't know each other, for the benefit of people who know each other and don't slaughter each other".
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One more comment. You may wonder who WDR is? WDR is the regional public broadcasting group in Cologne Germany. The symphony orchestra you hear is the WDR symphony! If you saw the Barbara Dennerlein Blues video a few days ago, that is a WDR production. It is amazing what other country's public broadcasting organizations produce and share with all of us.

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Thank you Phil for requesting this beautiful work. I strongly recommend reading Phil's thoughts about the piece before hearing it. It is background music for the film about the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. I am a Vietnam Vet and I heard bits and pieces about this battle and it's place in the US involvement in Vietnam. It signaled the end of French colonial rule of the Vietnamese peninsula. The battle lasted 55 days. I have a degree in music and have been involved in music for 75 years. I tend to gloss over "modern" orchestral works as of no interest to me. I'm so glad I didn't with this one. Jeff's comments are right on. The violinist is fantastic and sustains the emotion from beginning to end. I had to wipe away a few tears when it ended. Thank you Phil for sharing this piece with us!

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