utubesucks2003's video: Arthur Honegger - Le D mon de l Himalaya 2 Symphonic Movements

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) Slovak Philharmonic Choir Jacques Tchamkerten, Ondes Martenot Recorded June, 1992 Tempête De Neige (Snowstorm) Ascension Et Chute (Rise And Fall) / Finale [12:18] Album: Honegger/Marco Polo Film Music Classics Film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452200/ Liner Notes: The score, a real and important discovery, is conceived for large orchestra, without horns, but including two saxophones, Trautonium (Ondes Martenot), piano, harp, percussion and a wordless mixed chorus. The music is "realistic" and experimental for its period, at least as film music, and is built on extended ostinato accompaniments, precursor of today's minimalist techniques, and chromatically dissonant motif-cells. While Tempête has no leit-motiv, Ascension et Chute, to which a later cue, the final episode of Vision has been added, is built on a passacaglia-like theme, interrupted by recollections of the demonic sounds of the brass heard in Tempête, leading to a climax through a short, vertiginous cadenza for the Ondes Martenot. Again the passacaglia is heard, as a counterpoint to the hymn of the chorus, ending on the Mixolydian mode on D. Later, in 1943, Honegger would write Mermoz, another ambitious film score, similar in style and dramatic impact, making him once more the greatest, if hitherto unjustly neglected, European film composer of the first half of the twentieth century.