Vincent d'Indy: Wallenstein & Other Orchestral Works

Featuring

Thierry Fischer
Lawrence Power
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Vincent d'Indy

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Vincent d'Indy's early works were influenced by Wagner, but he countered Wagnerism's "formally disintegrative tendencies" with the classical structure taught by his revered teacher César Franck.

Critical Reception

Despite his significant contributions to French musical culture, Vincent d'Indy's reputation sharply declined after his death, and he is now mainly known for one work, the Symphonie cévenole.

Performer Biography

Lawrence Power, the violist on this recording, is a prize-winner of international competitions and was the first British winner of The William Primrose International Viola Competition.

Composer Biography

Vincent d'Indy gained orchestral imagination as a freelance horn player and timpanist in the Orchestre Colonne, unlike his teacher César Franck, who was a church organist.

Composer's Artistic Vision

As a fervent French regionalist and Roman Catholic, Vincent d'Indy saw folk music from his native Ardèche and Gregorian chant as key to renewing opera and symphonic music's melodic dimension.