D’INDY: ORCHESTRAL WORKS, VOL. 2

Rumon Gamba conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Volume 2 of our survey of the orchestral music of d’Indy. The Orchestra was excited to earn a nomination for a Grammy Award for the first volume in this series, released last year. Gramophone commented, ‘superbly realised by the excellent Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Rumon Gamba and the state-of-the-art Chandos recording, definitely a key record of d’Indy’s orchestral output’. Volume 2 offers Symphony No. 2, a large-scale romantic work in four movements, which d’Indy dedicated to his friend Paul Dukas; a suite of three orchestral movements from the incidental music for a now long forgotten play by André Alexandre, Karadec, and finally the Tableaux de voyage, orchestrations of six movements from a suite for solo piano, inspired by walking holidays in the Black Forest and Tyrol, and written after a trip that d’Indy made to Bayreuth in 1888 to hear Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal.