Enescu: Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Tugan Sokhiev

George Enescu: Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 13 | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Tugan Sokhiev | George Enescu Festival | 15.09.2023 | Bucharest Palace Hall

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Enescu completed the symphony in 1905, and it was premiered on Sunday, 21 January 1906 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on the fourteenth concert of the 1905–06 series of the Concerts Colonne, conducted by Édouard Colonne. It was published by Enoch et co., Paris, in 1906. The score is dedicated to Alfredo Casella, Enescu's former classmate at the Paris Conservatoire and lifelong friend. In turn, Casella would dedicate his Second Symphony to Enescu in 1908.

The symphony falls into three movements:

Assez vif et rythmé
Lent
Vif et vigoureux

The first movement is dominated by the three component motives of the first theme, announced in unison at the beginning. It is in the traditional sonata-allegro form, with a rather short development section and the culmination in the recapitulation.

The slow movement can be regarded as an extended Lied form: A–B–C–B–C–A, preceded by an introduction and concluded with a coda. However, the second half (the B–C–A portion) does not simply repeat the material from the first part, but develops it, and is not followed with a full recapitulation but closes rather suddenly with only the A material, and then the coda.

The exposition of the finale, also in sonata-allegro form, is similar to that of the first movement, with the main difference being that the place of a first theme is taken by a group of clearly defined thematic elements (the first, in the unison strings, forms a quasi-permanent background, followed by a second figure in the brass, a third in the trombone, and so on). The second theme is anticipated in triplets, only gradually achieving a stable profile after several attempts.

(wikipedia)

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