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« on: February 27, 2016, 03:14:37 pm » |
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I've waited a while to watch for new recordings/ youtube uploads of Landowski. There is a 9 disc set of his music, which, if you take out an opera and other large scale (duration) works, is hardly a complete picture. Of his five symphonies, four are on a double erato cd (also in the box set) and all five are on youtube, but together with a couple of other works, he seems curiously very under-represented in all formats. The Erato recordings are old now, and his reputation may be waning with them. Does anyone know why, or is it the usual neglect many composers go through after death. Of course, some members may be able to rectify his absence from the usual listening/upload sites! I can't say he's up there with my favourites, but surely he must be regarded as a major French composer, with a clear lineage from Honegger, and deserves better current access/'airing'.
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2016, 03:26:22 pm » |
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Thoroughly agree! My catalogue may or may not be somewhat out of date but it does show a lot of unrecorded compositions, http://artmusic.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,4741.msg24003.html#msg24003Part of the trouble would appear to be that, apart from Timpani, I know of no French record label releasing French music to match Dutton, Lyrita etc. in British music and Timpani does not release many cds per year. Landowski, I suspect, suffered the same sort of eclipse as other French composers of his ilk at the hands of the Boulez avant-garde. Dutilleux has enjoyed something of a renaissance but Landowski seems increasingly forgotten. |
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2016, 02:20:01 pm » |
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I have always been an admirer of Landowski. Such a strong musical personality. When I first discovered his music in the 1970s it was virtually impossible to hear anything of his beyond a couple of concerti. At least now one can hear the symphonies. But a great shame he is so neglected.
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« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2016, 08:47:11 pm » |
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Landowski's music has appealed to me for many years now. The 9-CD Erato set is splendid, but, as mentioned above, comprised of older recordings.
I suspect that Landowski was never one of the most highly regarded French composers of his time, and much of his influence stemmed from his high position in the French governmental musical bureaucracy. In the sixteen years since his passing, his musical star has very much waned, with very few new recordings of his music.
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Toby Esterhase
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« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2016, 11:29:51 pm » |
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IMHO also Sauguet,Tailleiferre,Tony Aubin and Louis Durey are underrated.
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Gauk
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2016, 09:00:59 am » |
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IMHO also Sauguet,Tailleiferre,Tony Aubin and Louis Durey are underrated.
Aubin I don't know at all, and Durey but slightly, but I think Landowski is much more unfairly neglected than Sauguet or Tailleiferre. Sauguet's music is interesting at first hearing, but I don't find it has lasting power. |
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Alex Bozman
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2016, 07:12:36 pm » |
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Henri Barraud is another in the neglected category from this era, though did find the First Symphony, which I'd not heard before, on youtube.
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Toby Esterhase
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2016, 12:13:01 am » |
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IMHO also Sauguet,Tailleiferre,Tony Aubin and Louis Durey are underrated.
Aubin I don't know at all, and Durey but slightly, but I think Landowski is much more unfairly neglected than Sauguet or Tailleiferre. Sauguet's music is interesting at first hearing, but I don't find it has lasting power. Dear Gauk You send me partially OT Best P.S. They were connected  for his ties with "Les Six" http://www.mnl-paris.com/web/association/marcel_landowski/ |
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Gauk
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2016, 11:50:22 am » |
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Thanks for the link to Aubin's 1st symphony - very attractive music.
While we are on the subject, two REALLY neglected composers who should not be: Louis Thirion and André Gedalge. Any Googling of "Louis Thirion" turns up a good deal about his grandson? (a science fiction novelist) and little about the composer, though I notice the situation has improved since I last checked a year or two ago. Most of his MSS were sadly destroyed by fire in WW1, and he gave up composition after the death of his wife in 1920.
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shamus
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2016, 08:10:18 pm » |
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Interesting to see from Toby the picture of the 10" LP with Tony Aubin's Péril, I had put it up long ago but the link is gone, so I will put the link back up. Maître Aubin's wife Francine was (is?) also a composer--his student--and I think the pieces I have of hers were on YouTube. Best, Jim
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