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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- D'un Jardin Clair is the second piece from Lili Boulanger's Trois Morceaux pour piano. The title translates as "Of a Bright Garden". This imagery is directly reflected in the music, with modal and pentatonic harmonies typical of Boulanger's impressionistic compositional style. Sparkling rolled chords and rising harmonic sequences beautifully mimic dappled sunlight and vibrant flowers.
This recording is from 2023, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I'm still quite happy with my performance (I was expecting a few more mistakes and a page-turn or two). It's a simpler piece, but the devil is in the details: getting the mezzo staccato chords to ring whilst also being very soft is a nightmare! The same goes for the pianississimo octaves in the LH at the very end - the impressionists really loved to torture pianists with those (see the similarly impossible octaves at the end of Debussy's La Soirée dans Grenade).
Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger (21 August 1893 - 15 March 1918) was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, who taught Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter and Philip Glass amongst others. She was a composer for the last 10 years of her tragically short life - she died at 25 - and her music stands in the main line of French music exemplified by Faure, somewhat tinged with the influence of Debussy's Impressionism. It is generally beautiful, delicately coloured, and touching.
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Wikimedia Commons - Lili Boulanger
musicroom.com - Lili Boulanger
