Jacques Ibert - Bostoniana (1955)

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.

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Bostoniana (1955)
Dedication: A la mémoire de Serge et Nathalie Koussevitsky

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louis Frémaux

Details from liner notes of the CD by Hubert Culot:

Bostoniana, actually Ibert’s last work, is the only surviving movement of a symphony commissioned by Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra but left incomplete. This short symphonic movement may be the real surprise in this compilation of Ibert’s orchestral output, for it has a muscular and forceful energy reminiscent of the composer’s great friend Arthur Honegger. It amply shows that Ibert was also capable of great things.

[notaire]

Spannende Interpretation dieses kompakten und fein komponierten Meisterwerks mit farbenreichen doch perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der intelligente und geniale französische Dirigent leitet das perfekt trainierte britische Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Echt atemberaubend!

[laurentriou]

Une brillante pièce d'orchestre qui, écoutée à " l'aveugle", pourrait donner lieu de surprenantes confusions.. car elle illustre un aspect moins connu du compositeur des "Escales" ou du "Divertissement", plus tendu dans son expression et d'une écriture plus dense.

[hyperaticism]

So, is this first movement written in 1955 or in 1962? Or started in 1955 and finished before his death? I found the Leduc catalogue contradictorily give the two dates in one passage

[SuonoReale]

Interestingly Milhaud wrote a piece around the same time called Music for Boston.

[officaldungeons]

Damn what was happening in Boston back then 😂😅

[aramkhachaturian]

Some of this sounds like it could be in fantasia