Concert recording at the 50th anniversary of Ysaÿe's death (12/5/31-81).
At the beginning page of his music, Ysaÿe quoted an excerp from a poem in Liege dialect:
"everything seems to complain, everything seems to cry... the snow falls... ... but it seems to me nevertheless to hear the song of our water, quivering under the ice..."
At the time where he wrote that beautiful piece, Ysaÿe, always in concert tours all over the word, far away from home and from his wife, even if he didn't fail to "conpensate", felt however a deep sadeness from the situation, and from his marriage been a bit cooled of... So, he dedicated that piece to his wife, and one must of course bring this fact closer to the quoted verses... To be noted that this piece is the fourth of Ysaÿe's poems, a form that he particularly liked to use (original with full orchestra)... his poem nr 1 (poème élégiaque) has been taken as model by Chausson when he wrote his own (very famous now) Poeme for violin and orchestra.
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But, unfortunately for the moment, the texts are still only in French (but music goes over that border isn't it !).