Paul Dukas, Villanelle for horn and piano - Anneke Scott & Steven Devine
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Anneke Scott (horn) and Steven Devine (piano)
Paul Dukas, Villanelle for horn and piano (1906)
Sauterelle piston horn crooked in F by Marcel Auguste Raoux, post 1852 Paris, piston block by Boosey, London, 1918, (formerly belonging to Norman Del Mar)
Anonymous early 20th century French mute (Bate Collection, Oxford).
Grand Piano by Erard, London, 1866 (Richard Burnett Collection)
Learn more about this performance here: • 7. Corno not Corona Co...
Recorded at Richard Burnett Heritage Collection of Keyboard Instruments, Waterdown House, Tunbridge Wells. August, 2021.
Producer: Tom Hammond (Chiaro Audio)
Engineer: John Croft (Chiaro Audio)
Videographer: Ioannis Theodoridis
with thanks to the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS Enterprise Award, 2021)
www.annekescott.com
I played the Dukas for my university senior recital back in the 1990s. Whenever I think I played it decently I just listen to a professional such as yourself play it and I am humbled. 😊
Awwww. Thanks - it's such a fun piece to play!
This is the best recording of Villanelle that I've watched/listened to. Intonation and right hand dynamics are awesome. Thank you for sharing with us! KMG
My pleasure! It's such a great piece - so well written. I love how it combines all the "tick boxes" of things you need to be able to do as a horn player, but yet it stands on its own feet as a piece of music, rather than merely a technical demonstration piece.
You made it yours because you let your heart come through - something learning the horn growing up I never did and only through life experience and hardship can music be appreciated
Simply amazing playing, the changing in hand positions at the beginning was superbly musical, this series keeps on getting better and better!
Awww thanks! Yes, the opening section with the hand technique is such a "famous" bit in our repertoire it was great we were able to capture that so well. Glad you're enjoying the series!
Oh! And I think I've just worked out who you are! Lovely to virtually meet you! (I know your lovely mum!). Great to see you following in her footsteps!
Well done collaboration. Beautifully "handled open" 10th harmonics. Thank you both for this performance.
Thank you! It's so much fun working with Steven - such an excellent musician to collaborate with!
It is always a pleasure to see Ms. Scott's dynamic right hand technique in action. The precision and showmanship is truly a sight to see. The results in tone and intonation show how masterful her right hand truly is. I was very curious to see her performance of this work as it requires excellent valve and hand horn ability (which Ms. Scott has in abundance). It was fascinating to see her choice in instrument with the piston valve horn. It worked beautifully for this piece and I applaud her choice. I'm sure the choice was born out of research of the Horn players at the Paris Conservatory at the time. Thanks for yet another wonderful performance.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this performance Yes - the French school of horn players held on to this style of piston horn for a considerable length of time. The worldwide standardisation of horn playing to the German style double rotary valved horn really only happened in the second half of the twentieth century.
Wow! We have a saying for that: moeilijk doen als het ‘makkelijk’ kan. Doing difficult when it can be easy Well Easy it is not. Well played both of you and such a beautiful tone!
Dat is erg aardig van jouw! Dank u wel!
In a way, I got snookered into watching this video. I was expecting an actual villanelle set to music. Getting snookered has rarely been such a pleasure. Well done!
If you'd ever like to put an actual villanelle to music, I've got 'em.
How wonderful! I'm delighted you stumbled upon this piece. When teaching this piece to students often one of the first things that comes up is the significance of the title and how we can incorporate that into our playing (especially of the opening) so it's great to find a poet coming to this particular piece for the first time when normally, with this work, it's us musicians coming to such poetry for the first time!
Amazing!
Lovely!
A beautiful rendition of this classic horn showpiece.
Thanks! It's a great piece to have in our repertoire.
Those colours. This may have set a new standard for the piece. Wonderful
Thanks! It's a smashing piece. The great thing is that there are a lot of similar works from this period - competition pieces from the Paris Conservatoire that really show off everything the horn can do - just for some reason this one really seems to have stayed in our repertoire. I love how Dukas manages to go through a whole check list of things horn players should be able to do (hand horn technique, full range, fast playing, lyrical playing, trills, muted, echo stop etc etc) and yet it doesn't feel like a technical exercise.
@@AnnekeScott would love to hear some of the others you are referring to. I've never thought of this as being an exercise. It is very evocative writing
@@raphaelhudson There are many similar pieces from the same era though most aren't as well known as Dukas's Villanelle, for example see if you can track down Raoul Pugnot "Solo pour cor", Camille Chevillard "Allegro", Alfred Bachelet "Dans La Montagne", Henri Busser "Pièce en Ré" or Victorin de Joncières "Solo pour cor en fa". Very much the same idiom as Villanelle!
Brava!
Thanks! Such a fun piece to play!
What a nice performance! Bravo!
Thanks! It's such a fun piece!
Delicious!
fantástico
¡Muchísimas gracias!
Wonderful
Thanks!
Bravoooooooo!!!!!😮😊
Thank you!
I love this so much. Beautiful Érard, too, which complements the horn so nicely.
Is that also a 19th-century iPad?
hehehhehe. Yep! A very rare and precious 19th-century iPad ;-)
@@AnnekeScott an Apfel und Söhne Mechanisches Papier from 1883, if I'm not mistaken
@@brbrofsvl Oh well spotted! Indeed! You have a good eye!
@@AnnekeScottI had a question maybe you could answer. What instrument is "tenor tuba" in Janacek (Sinfonietta and especially Capriccio)? I think you played in the Anima Eterna recording? If so, do you remember what you were using?
@@brbrofsvl Yes! I was on the Anima Eterna recording - such a favourite piece of mine. If memory serves me correct we used little B flat tenor tubas by Cerveny. Rotary valves, look a little like backwards Wagner tubas but a bit more "tubby".
just use the valves. just wasting them.
😆😆😆 Oh, don't worry, the valves get used enough. And I think Dukas knew what he was doing!
always assume the composer is an idiot. @@AnnekeScott
Bruh dukas wanted to play the first page without valves
@@AnnekeScott It's well known Dukas recanted on his deathbed. He said it was his only regret and really really super obvious when you think about it and that he felt so sorry about it for so long that it's the real cause of his death.
@@CoralBurrito432 Heresy! Dukas later admitted it was a prank he was playing on a friend of his who played horn. Dude had just gotten a brand new valved horn and Dukas was a known troll. Fun fact: you do pronounce the "s" at the end.