Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) - Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

[@pleasedyes]

Wow right into it

[@pilouetmissiou]

I always found Harp an extraordinary instrument..very rich as coulours....This music is fresh, full of beautiful themes as lullaby as in the second movement and very dancing as in the third and with a rich orchestration ...never boring ... i like a lot ❤ thanks

[@RobertoPintos]

Thank you very much for your words, Mimi! It is comforting for me to know that you liked this work.

[@marthagarrett4997]

Lovely playing and lovely composing. Thanks for posting.

[@bobhourigan7626]

A beautiful composition beautifully performed. Thks

[@RobertoPintos]

Enjoy it, friend! Thank you very much for your message!

[@theopaopa1]

excelente, gracias, señor roberto pintos...

[@RobertoPintos]

Por nada. Gracias por apreciar mi esfuerzo, y por tu mensaje, Ricardo!

[@lauralaszloffy2518]

Magnifique ♥️♥️♥️

[@RobertoPintos]

Merci beaucoup pour votre message, Laura!

[@owenmcgee8496]

I have a cd of this recording. First time I heard it I said to myself this sounds like very feminine music: it keeps you off balance and its imagination is...different. Then I saw who the composer was and I thought I spotted a coincidence.

[@RobertoPintos]

Exactly. That is the most interesting. Female composers have a world of their own. Thank you very much for your comment.

[@2906nico]

To me it sounds very French, not particularly feminine.

[@philzmusic8098]

With all due respect, this is nonsense. There are plenty of women composers whose music is forceful: Ethyl Smith and Julia Perry come to mind. Some of Ravel's music--L'enfant et les sortilèges, for example--is charming, delicate, and graceful. Music is music, and composers are composers.

[@owenmcgee8496]

@@philzmusic8098 Yeah, well, as I said, "I thought I spotted a coincidence". We're talking impressions here. And this piece created an impression on me. Music is its own world, nothing to do with genders, but it does create impressions. Incidentally, the most militaristic composition I've heard on an Irish theme was composed by a (French) woman: Augusta Holmes' "Irlande". And I've a double cd of Tailleferre's chamber music which is neutral in the impressions category. This concertino piece was also arranged without orchestra, but this arrangement & this performance is my favourite by a country mile. I first heard it on an album of concertos played by this (incidentally male) harpist, and I think it's a fantastic recording. It also had pieces by Saint Saens & Ravel. The album also stands out for hearing Zabaleta playing what I'll call, for sake of convenience, romantic or impressionistic music. For the most part, he stuck to a repetoire like Bach etc.

[@philzmusic8098]

@@owenmcgee8496 The fact that it's a harp concerto does make it "female," I have to admit, since the instrument is so associated with women. In France it was taught to bourgeois girls as the piano was in other parts of Europe. And when orchestras were exclusively male, there were two exceptions: harp and flute players. French orchestral music could be defined as music with prominent flute and harp parts, and therefore feminine, just as Paris is considered a feminine city rather than a masculine one like London .

[@JAMESLEVEE]

The final movement is indeed marked just Rondo, with a metronome marking of crotchet = 108.

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

This lady wrote a lot of good music. Ravel was right.

[@RobertoPintos]

It's true, she is an excellent composer! Thank you very much for your message, Stephen!

[@erlandschneck-holze4476]

... herrliches Musikstück einer nahezu vergessenen Komponistin ... hochprofessionelle Wiederbelebung durch Zabaleta, Martinon und das Französische Nationalorchester ... Die Ursprungs-CD enthält auch Bemerkenswertes von Saint-Saens und Ginastera (=DGG) ...

[@RobertoPintos]

Es ist wahr! Ich denke, ich werde diese CD für neue Beiträge erneut besuchen. Vielen Dank für deine Nachricht, Erland!!!

[@niniasemira2269]

​@@RobertoPintosPlease you can post the Ginastera concerto?

[@RobertoPintos]

@@niniasemira2269 Yes. Exactly now I am preparing a new publication. I have several versions of Ginastera's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra. I will upload a version with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Thank you very much for your interest. (Between today and tomorrow I will make the publications).

[@niniasemira2269]

@@RobertoPintos You can post the Nicanor Zabaleta version of this concerto, recorded by the same artists of this Tailleferre concerto?

[@niniasemira2269]

@@RobertoPintos Susanna Mildonian is another option for Ginastera harp concerto, in the same disc with the Villa Lobos harp concerto.

[@ishtar2848]

So fast! Too fast!!! It's an Allegretto not a Presto!

[@RobertoPintos]

It depends on the metronome measure indicated by the composer.