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Arthur Honegger Mikko Franck Orchestre Philharmonique Radio France 1920 2019
L'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France sous la direction de Mikko Franck interprète Pacific 231, mouvement symphonique n°1, d'Arthur Honegger. Extrait du concert donné le 4 octobre 2019 à l'auditorium de la Maison de la Radio. C’est au tout début du XXe siècle, en pleine euphorie du rail, que la firme américaine Baldwin conçut une nouvelle locomotive dont le premier client fut une compagnie ferroviaire néo-zélandaise. Devant traverser le plus grand des océans, elle reçut le surnom de « Pacific », et se compose de quatre roues porteuses avant, de six roues motrices centrales, et de deux roues porteuses arrière, d’où son appellation américaine de « 4-6- 2 ». La codification française prenant en compte les essieux constitués de deux roues chacun, les premières locomotives de ce type construites dans l’Hexagone furent désignées comme « 2-3-1 ». Cette locomotive était très répandue en France quand Abel Gance la filma en 1920 dans la région de Nice pour son (très) long-métrage La Roue. Assistant du réalisateur, l’écrivain et aventurier Blaise Cendrars racontera dans L’Homme foudroyé : « J’ai fait commander par Abel Gance la musique de La Roue à Arthur Honegger. Ce fut un joli malentendu ! Gance voulait une symphonie (pas moins) pour accompagner son film. Honegger composa ce morceau de bravoure qu’on donne depuis dans les salles de concert sous le titre de Pacific 231. Et ce fut sans lendemain. Je raconterai un jour comment j’ai découvert les Six. C’est une rigolade… » #Honegger #MikkoFranck #concert
Arthur Honegger Robert Blum Blum 1922 1923 1987
CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) Recorded November, 1987 Composed for the film in 1922 Album: Honegger/Marco Polo Film Music Classics Film: (http•••) (http•••) Note: This recording of the overture (the only surviving written piece of the score as explained in the liner notes) has been edited into the opening sequence of the film. The actual DVD release uses a new score by Robert Israel and I believe any earlier available release of the film was silent. Liner Notes: The only surviving piece from the score to Abel Gance's melodrama of 1922, La Roue, is Honegger's four-minute overture, scored for medium-sized orchestra. The rest of the music must be the subject of speculation and it is said that Honegger put together a score consisting of pieces of his own and music from the classical repertoire, perhaps including music he was writing at the time for the Pathé-Journal. Apart from the lyrical section of the overture, later used in the first piece in the Suite derived from the score for Napoléon, there is a further point of interest in the following six bars of a rhythmic theme and twelve more bars of incompleted orchestrated sketches. A new theme is written out in full for clarinet and flute, and subsequently the first violins, in counterpoint with a bass motif, and figures among other thematic materials, orchestration and notes for further development. This coincides with the surging "whistling" triplet motif at bar 118 of Pacific 231, composed in 1923, suggesting that the inspiration for the work had arisen on a locomotive, while Honegger was working on La Roue, a conclusion supported by other elements in the sketches. With the approval of Arthur Hoérée, a bar has been added to link the two sections of the overture, avoiding what otherwise is an abrupt transition to the Pacific 231 motor pulsation motif. It is not known whether Honegger conducted the first performance of La Roue himself, although we know that on that occasion the Cinépupitre was introduced into France, a device for synchronization of music and film similar to Carl Robert Blum's Rhytmonome. The subject of La Roue is the railway, and this provided Honegger with scope for the musical application of his own passion for locomotives and model trains and no doubt gave the impulse for his masterpiece Pacific 231.
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