George Enescu - Poème roumain, Op. 1 (1897)
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- George Enescu (19 August 1881 - 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He is regarded by many as Romania's most important musician.
Poème roumain, Op. 1 (1897)
Respectueux hommage à Sa Majesté la Reine de Roumanie
Romanian Broadcasting Orchestra conducted by Iosef Conta
Enescu’s Op.1, his Romanian Poem, was written in 1897, when he had graduated from the conservatoires of Vienna and Paris. By this time, as we have seen, he had already composed three of his four full-length study symphonies and a Violin Concerto, and also a Ballade for violin and orchestra , a Tragic Overture and a Fanthasy for piano and orchestra. His understanding of the orchestra, therefore, was quite considerable; he had also had experience of playing in an orchestra, and had appeared as a soloist. The fact that this is Enescu’s Op.1 and that he was just 15 when he composed it should deter no-one: his Romanian Poem is a work of considerable achievement.
It is perhaps significant that Enescu’s Op.1 is a work redolent of his homeland, after so many years of studying abroad: it quotes partly from collections of Romanian folk-music subvented by the Romanian government from 1896, but Enescu’s treatment is entirely symphonic. The work, in C minor, has two parts. The opening features a descending phrase in 12/8 hich sets the scene, as the composer described: It is dusk, on the eve of holiday, and bells are ringing, calling villagers to the evening service. Singing is to be heard through the open doors of the church. Then, night falls, the moon rises, and we hear a melancholy tune coming from somewhere far off; it is a shepherd playing a doina (a Romanian folk-melody played or sung without accompaniment), on his rustic flute.
Part two of the Romanian Poem opens as "All at once", (Enescu continues), the scene changes, the moon disappears, and a thunderstorm breaks out. When it subsides, a cockerel announcing daybreak is heard. Once again the bells, ringing to announce the holiday, sound. The work ends with jubilant general dances and the (old) Romanian national anthem.
The premiere of the Romanian Poem was given in Paris on 9th February 1898, under Edouard Collonne; Enescu himself conducted the first Bucharest performance later the same year. The large orchestra used in the work includes a wordless chorus, as does the finale of Enescu’s Third Symphony of 1918, the first performance of which was in Bucharest in May 1919 conducted by Enescu, preceded by Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.4.
I'm 65 years old and have barely discovered Enescu's music. I can hardly believe it's taken me so many years to finally get down to hearing it. It's searingly beautiful and in fact even reminds of the very music that has influenced my own style of composition i.e. Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, R. Strauss.
Et dire que Georges Enesco n'avait que 16 ans lorsqu'il composa ce petit bijou. Quel talent ! Chez certains, la valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années...
This was my favorite new (for me) piece of 2022...
Nothing more delightful than getting to know a piece so well, that you know practically every measure...it runs in your head, along with the music, as you listen ❤
Bravo bravo bravo brilliance grandiose music
No words needed!
Master!
Înregistrarea aceasta NU cuprinde și secvența cu imnul ”Trăiască Regele”.
foarte prost
Nu te astâmperi, nu?
Bravo Enescu foarte frumos spectacular si multumiri Bartje Bartmans
Ai dreptate
This recording does not contain its Finale which was the Romanian Anthem "Long live the King". This is the communist version of Enescu's masterpiece.
"Communist" version?
@@bartjebartmans yes. The communists in Romania imposed that the Poeme Roumaine to be performed without the National Anthem "Long live the King".
Oh yes, you can see in the video the first page of it where it got cut by 10 pages! It has been a while since I uploaded it but now you mention it I remember it. Thanks! It says Hymne National Roumain in the score.
@@bartjebartmans "Long Live the King" was Romania's national anthem at that time (Hymne National Roumain). Romania was a monarchy.
@@razvanluculescu1014 the king was a killer
just heard it with the Orchestre "Les siecles" conducted by F-X Roth. @Bartje Bartmans, who is playing here?
"Like" on 20 October 2017
16:46 pt 2
UN TALENT INIMAGINABIL,, TE IUBEZC ENEZCU TE CASATORENSI CU MINE SI SA AI COPIII
MULT SUCCESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
@@scweps3241 MuLTUMES DOAMNE ASJUTA
El a murit acum mult timp
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I don't know why this kind of reminds me of Lord of the Rings.
It is the opposite. Movie scores often are based on existing scores. Some. like John Williams, stole left and right.
Of course it it is the opposite. Written decades before Lord of the Rings. Of course they all stole, Mozart even said so. Stealing might not be the correct word, but you can write a thesis on the themes being used in movies without giving proper credit to the original composer. Godfather theme for instance comes from Menotti's slow movement of his piano concerto. (Rota was close friends with Menotti) In Mahler's 9th is also a theme remarkably similar. John Williams not only used the Planets by Holst but countless other similar sounding themes. Mozart used themes by Clementi (Magic Flute overture), Haydn Symphony 13 (Jupiter final) Haydn Kyrie (Symphony 25) and etc. etc. etc.
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Mozart stole his whole identity from Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de St.Georges. He wrote the symphony concertante with the same violin passages from St.Georges. the worstis that the whole Mozart's violinistic approach and rhythmical structure belongs to someone else whose neglected status is made by Napoleon himself who reinstalled slavery after the revolution. St. George was black and handsome and extra successful in Paris and the greatest swordsman of France in his time 10 years before Mozart who was brought to see St.George by his lovely dad Leopold. That's how it all started. Mozart did his extra original works but the regular Mozart concept is not his own. It is St.George's. Check the documentary about that.
This piece was written 49 years before Howard Shore was even born.