Word: roussel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Piston Concertino for Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what...
Only two works were performed last Sunday--Five Pieces for violin and piano by Prokofieff, and Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58. The String Trio is one of Roussel's last compositions. Like all of his music it is marked by dissonant harmonic and contrapuntal effects. In spite of this, the first two movements have a lyrical lushness which will probably be considered saccharine in not so many years. The last movement is in a style which Roussel favored in his middle life. Dance-like and acridly dissonant, it has the same verve for which many passages in the Symphony...
...ripping vigor and angularity of this type of movement which removes Roussel somewhat from the spirit of the traditional French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music...
Like all other composers Roussel has assimilated a number of outside influences, but so well have they been absorbed that in his mature works Roussel's style has an individual character which can be accounted for only by the inherent originality of his creative nature...
...Roussel: Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Sounding like César Franck double-distilled, the late Albert Roussel's subtle, tenuous music is voluptuously performed...