Symphonie g-mineur Opus 25 Orgue et Orchestre - Marcel Dupre
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Marcel Dupré was one of France's long line of organist-composer-academics. He was appointed as organ professor at the Paris Conservatory in 1926 and organist of St. Sulpice in Paris in 1934, and served as head of the Conservatory from 1954 to 1956.
The first of his two organ and orchestra symphonies, this is among his finest compositions. In it he works a kind of reconciliation of the French academic style (rather late Romantic in character) with newer developments in harmony, while at the same time retaining such traditional elements in French music as clarity, strong formal logic, a fondness for grandiose effects, and a recognizably French sort of elegance.
One of its most striking characteristics (and one that sets it apart from some other orchestra-organ works of the French school) is the outstanding command of the craft of orchestration. Rather than always pitting the organ against the orchestra, Dupré tended to think of the orchestra as providing four choirs -- winds, brass, percussion and strings -- that extended the registration of the organ.
The symphony lasts 28 to 30 minutes and is in four movements of balanced proportions, with little more than a minute's difference in their respective lengths.
The first movement, Modérément Lent: Allegro is in the typical symphonic first movement sonata-allegro form with a slow introduction. Dupré opens the work with a single line for cellos and basses, an austere statement that as far as its first phrase sounds as if it is the ground bass for a passacaglia. It is only when the low strings continue the melody and begin to change it that it becomes clear that it will not be in that well-known Baroque form.
When the organ enters, it expands on that theme until the music comes to a halt on an ambiguous chord, at which time the main Allegro of the movement begins. The two main themes can be given the standard metaphorical description of their characters as "masculine" and "feminine." The first theme is boldly rhythmic, and is primarily for orchestra, while the second theme is softer and more lyrical and appears on the woodwinds.
The development section is a striking one, with unexpected bitonal harmonies. The movement comes to a rather brusque conclusion.
The second movement, Scherzo: Vivace features light and flowing woodwind passages that intertwine with the organ. The orchestra's music is more diatonic than the organ's, as that instrument tends to remain separate from the orchestra in the scoring.
The third movement, Adagio: Lent has a beautiful main theme featured in a prominent viola part. The Final: Animé shows Dupré's mastery of musical form in which he combines Haydn's form of a double rondo with fugal writing and a set of variations without ever breaking the infectious rhythm of the piece.
Dupré dedicated the symphony to his friend the English conductor Sir Henry Wood. It was first performed in Glasgow on January 3, 1928, and began to get famous after its performance in one of Wood's Promenade Concerts in 1930.
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