The Art of Listening

1. Henri Duparc: L’invitation au voyage
2. Vincent D’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
3. Ernest Chausson: Poème

Three pupils of César Franck:

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Henri Duparc: L’invitation au voyage

Duparc’s settings of Baudelaire have few equals in the world of French mélodie:

Translation

Score

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Vincent D’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français

A hybrid work: not quite a piano concerto, not quite a tone poem and not quite a symphony, and none the worse for it:

1. Assez lent – Modérément animé (0:00)
2. Assez modéré, mais sans lenteur (11:36)
3. Animé (17:58)

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Ernest Chausson: Poème

Maybe not Chausson’s most popular work – that (dubious??) privilege goes to his fine orchestral song cycle, Poème de l’amour et de la mer – but Poème has made its way into the solo violin repertoire and stayed there:

Score

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