Henri Duparc - Lénore (1875)

[@ericduhamel7937]

Très belle oeuvre, injustement méconnue, qui met Duparc au niveau des plus grands. Quel dommage que sa carrière ait été si courte !

[@AlessioAndres]

This Toulouse orchestra is (wow) probably the best orchestra I've ever listened to.

[@SoupyMold]

MagNIFFFFFicent! Evocative and euharmonic! Tragically, only the entrance to the afterlife will allow anyone to discover what Duparc's genius, slain by his own hand, should offer.

[@felixheiss]

Fabulous piece that has been almost totally neglected by the record companies . Lucky to have this one .

[@philippebaudet9371]

C'est sublime : quel injuste destin ! Duparc a vécu jusqu'à 85 ans, mais a été stoppé net dans son élan par une très grave maladie - ce, alors qu'il était encore jeune. Il n'a plus jamais pu composer. Quel génie cependant ! Et si l'on s'en tient à ce qu'il avait pu réaliser jusqu'à cette malédiction, on peut légitiment se demander de quels chefs-d’œuvre nous avons été privés : l'histoire de la musique s'écrirait autrement à n'en pas douter. Il reste ses mélodies (magnifiques) et quelques autres pièces comme ce poème symphonique : "Léonore" (de toute beauté), et c'est déjà considérable !

[@Apfelstrudl]

The three horn staffs are: (Natural) Horn in A (later E ad D) , (Natural) Horn in D and two (Valve)Horns in F (later E) . Consider that until 1903 natural horn was still taught in Paris and the first two staffs are both playable with natural horns. The third isn't and there is a bar (5:17) where hand stopping is expliciptly marked (wouldn't be done in natural horn score).

[@69EBubu]

Incroyable pièce, écrite 10 ans avant l'ouverture de Gwendoline de Chabrier, et qui l'annonce (on ne peut pas imaginer que Chabrier n'avait pas connaissance de cette oeuvre, tellement il y a de ressemblances thematiques et orchestrales). On y entend aussi les poemes symphoniques de Saint-Saëns (qui lui sont presque contemporains).

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

Duparc's orchestral poem is wonderful, featuring chromatic, late-Romantic harmony, and grand, colorful orchestration ! One may hear Wagnerian opulence and lyricism along with, seemingly, Russian orchestral color (although i don't know if Duparc studied Russian orchestral scores)!

[@jwhill7]

The recurring brass signal figure reminds me too much of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

[@simonagonistes8844]

Scheherazade was composed in 1888 so this pre-figures it. What is fascinating about Duparc is that one hears a Great sensitivity at work here. This sensitivity and fragility comes out in how he expressed himself when he decided to give up composing: Having lived for 25 years in a splendid dream, the whole idea of [musical] representation has become - I repeat to you - repugnant. The other reason for this destruction, which I do not regret, was the complete moral transformation that God imposed on me 20 years ago and which, in a single minute, obliterated all of my past life. Since then, [my opera] Roussalka, not having any connection with my new life, should no longer exist.) I've often wondered whether he sensed that putting a highly refined form of art above life and replacing the transformation of living itself by art forms was blocking spiritual development. I think Wittgenstein said something about Art 'pointing to something' perhaps he was more concerned about the thing art was 'pointing' to. Also, by the turn of the century (1900) there was a burgeoning sense that the musical language was exhausting itself. Just a thought.

[@sjoerdvdongen]

Might be the other way around then?

[@fulviopolce9785]

Purtroppo il destino è anche crudele.Duparc ha composto questo poema sinfonico a 27 anni ,un lavoro di discreto impatto e ottima orchestrazione. La vita non gli riserverà in futuro molta fortuna.

[@norwalltino]

High skilled romantic composer as Wagner and Strauss in Germany. Was Duparc ahead though?

[@geoffwalker9392]

die Todten reiten schnell!