Stravinsky : Chant funèbre op. 5 (Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France)

sous la direction de Mikko Franck, l'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France joue le Chant funèbre, op.5 d'Igor Stravinsky.
La rencontre avec Rimski-Korsakov en 1902 fut décisive pour le jeune Stravinsky à un moment où ce dernier n’était pas encore assuré dans sa vocation de compositeur et venait de perdre son père d’un cancer de la gorge. Rimski-Korsakov le prit comme élève, et lui ouvrit son s

[@SilvioNobre]

Stravinsky est d'une perfection incroyable!

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne Aufführung dieses ein bisschen außerirdischen doch perfekt komponierten Meisterwerks mit gut phrasierten doch perfekt vereinigten Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelligente und geniale Dirigent leitet das hoch funktionelle Orchester im gut analysierten Tempo und mit perfekt kalkulierter Dynamik. Einfach wundervoll!

[@constantquestioning4010]

Young Stravinsky’s sketchy tribute to a mentor he met in 1902, the mellifluous epic composer of meticulously crafted vast patriotic canvases, Rimski Korsakov (1887-1909)
A tense atmosphere of sounds emptying out, downward outpouring
At sea in a mist
An undying spectral chilling sound
The downward pull of sorrow’s gravity
Touches of R Strauss’ hallmark ornementation 2:28 (back to front downward trills, which also echoe Haydn’s representation of chaos with odd sounds like metal spring coils pinging (the cacophonous disorder of a world prior to the light of majestic creation).
Ominously wistful, tenderly nostalgic but in an evolving world of new genres
Less ethnically rooted in folk dancing and historic legend, more romantically mystical
Atmosphere brings to mind Rachmaninov’s « Isle of death » (1909) but with less of a sense of pictorial landscape shrouded in the mist, the undiscovered country from whose borne no traveller returns…
Far from a « Chant » in the traditional sense
Few changes of register or tempo
Leaves one bereft and alone, uncertain with little comfort or Christian Orthodox comfort of a life to come and the redemption of life’s meaning as serving a purpose of enlightenment and hope through creativity and legacy.
Stravinsky far from an operatic, mellifluous story teller of Christian Orthodox faith and belief in legendary Tsardom…
Beyond emotional grief, comfort must be sought in abstract sensations and nature’s beauty as the only means to contend with nihilism and man’s cruel nature

[@georgenorris2657]

Wagner, Rimsky, Debussy - but especially Wagner I think. Interesting! It helps to explain his total reaction against emotional music later.

[@chouettelouise806]

Profane je suis.... Mais émerveillée