Après un rêve - Belle epoque: Nights at the Piano / Emmanuel Despax

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
August 18, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Cecile Chaminade, Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Gabriel Faure, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Camil
    • PERFORMER
      Emmanuel Despax
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 18, 2023
    • UPC
      635212074725
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD747
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (arr. E. Despax for piano)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    2. Préambule

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    3. Variation 1: Le comble de la distinction

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    4. Variation 2: Le cœur sur la main

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    5. Variation 3: La désinvolture et la discrétion

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    6. Variation 4: La suite dans les idées

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    7. Variation 5: Le charme enjôleur

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    8. Variation 6: Le contentement de soi

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    9. Variation 7: Le goût du malheur

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    10. Variation 8: L'alerte vieillesse

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    11. Cadence: Très large et très librement

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    12. Final

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    13. Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    14. Saint-Saens - Danse macabre, S555/R240 (arr. V. Horowitz for piano)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    15. Nocturne, Op. 165

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    16. I. Ondine

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    17. II. Le gibet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    18. III. Scarbo

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax

    19. Poème nocturne: I. Aux étoiles (version for piano)

      Composer: Henri Duparc

      Performer: Emmanuel Despax


“Après un rêve” is an ode to the French Belle Époque repertoire, depicting the beauty of dreams and the night. The album is an opportunity to hear and perhaps discover rarely played / rarely recorded wonderful works (Chaminade Nocturne, Duparc Aux étoiles, Poulenc Les soirées de Nazelles), alongside central pillars of the repertoire, and includes a world premiere of Despax’s arrangement of Après un rêve. The album is attributed to his grandfather, Jacques Charpentreau, a French poet who adored this repertoire and frequently drew inspiration from the night in his works. Despax has curated some of his poetry, as well as works by other poets he admired to complement this music, taking the listener on an immersive poetic and musical journey through this noctur- nal landscape.

REVIEW:

Despax has recorded Bach, Brahms, Chopin, but the works here particularly suit his sensibility. In Maurice Ravel’s haunting masterpiece Gaspard de la Nuit, he masters the ferocious challenges with ease, delicacy, strength.

-- The Guardian (UK)