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Dutilleux: Complete Music for Piano Solo / Quartararo
Piano Classics

Dutilleux: Complete Music for Piano Solo / Quartararo

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Composer
Dutilleux, Henri
Artist
Vittoria Quartararo
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Nov 19, 2021
Catalog #
PCL10167
UPC
5029365101677

About

Though Dutilleux began composing at an early age and undertook the rigorous course of study at the Paris Conservatoire, culminating in the much sought-after Prix de Rome in 1938 with a cantata, he regarded his Piano Sonata of 1946-8 as an Opus 1. This attitude was characteristic of a remarkably fastidious and self-critical composer who dedicated his life to composition –and the nurturing of young composers –and yet whose published output is influential out of all proportion to its size. He wrote the sonata for the pianist Geneviève Joy whom he married in 1946. The musical language is as much modal as tonal, owing as much to Bartók’s methods of musical organization and the 19th-century Germanic concept of the large-scale masterpiece as contemporary developments in harmony. Everything he wrote seems to repudiate the commonly held idea that French music is essentially frivolous and charming, but Dutilleux’s music can smile and relax, too: while working at French radio he composed a series of short pastiche pieces as air-filler, later compiling them as a suite, Au gré des ondes. Blackbird is Dutilleux’s sole trespass on the territory of his contemporary Messiaen: knowingly brief and non-naturalistic by comparison, a portrait of the blackbird’s soul more than its song. The Debussian heritage of painting on the piano comes to the fore on the set of Three Preludes composed between 1973 and 1988, while Resonances is a study in timbre built with the composer’s individual technique of pivot notes and chords. As Vittoria Quartararo observes in her booklet introduction, ‘the music of Dutilleux often seems to shift towards a visual level. While the verticality of piano chords can resonate like light does on a black canvas, one’s gaze becomes more horizontal, distant, and at times visionary, detecting the reverberation of a sound transformed in liquid crystal.’

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. D'ombre et de silence 03:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. D'ombre et de silence
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  2. 2 No. 2. Sur un même accord 03:49
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Sur un même accord
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  3. 3 No. 3. Le jeu des contraires 06:55
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Le jeu des contraires
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  4. 4 I. Prélude et berceuse 03:20
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Prélude et berceuse
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  5. 5 II. Claquettes 01:05
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Claquettes
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  6. 6 III. Improvisation 01:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Improvisation
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  7. 7 IV. Mouvement perpétuel 02:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Mouvement perpétuel
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  8. 8 V. Hommage à Bach 02:52
    Track
    8
    Title
    V. Hommage à Bach
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  9. 9 VI. Étude 01:18
    Track
    9
    Title
    VI. Étude
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  10. 10 Mini-prélude en éventail 00:57
    Track
    10
    Title
    Mini-prélude en éventail
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  11. 11 Resonances 02:18
    Track
    11
    Title
    Resonances
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  12. 12 Petit air a domir debout 01:10
    Track
    12
    Title
    Petit air a domir debout
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  13. 13 Blackbird 01:30
    Track
    13
    Title
    Blackbird
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  14. 14 Bergerie 01:16
    Track
    14
    Title
    Bergerie
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  15. 15 Tous les chemins 01:18
    Track
    15
    Title
    Tous les chemins
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  16. 16 I. Allegro con moto 07:48
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Allegro con moto
    Duration
    07:48
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  17. 17 II. Lied: Assez lent - Un poco più mosso 06:29
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Lied: Assez lent - Un poco più mosso
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo
  18. 18 III. Choral et Variations 10:36
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Choral et Variations
    Duration
    10:36
    Composer
    Henri Dutilleux
    Performer
    Vittoria Quartararo