Dutilleux: Piano Works / Armengaud

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
September 10, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DUTILLEUX, HENRI
    • PERFORMER
      Jean-Pierre Armengaud
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 10, 2021
    • UPC
      747313979028
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP790
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con moto

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    2. II. Lied: Assez lent - Un poco più mosso

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    3. III. Choral et Variations

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    4. Allegro - Tableau I: La place du village, aux abords d'une forêt (A village square, on the edge of a forest)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    5. Tableau I: Premier danse de la petite Bohémienne (The gypsy girl's first dance)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    6. Tableau I: Entrée de la noce (Entrance of the wedding party)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    7. Tableau I: Deuxième danse de la petite Bohémienne (The gypsy girl's second dance)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    8. Tableau I: Troisième danse de la petite Bohémienne (The gypsy girl's third dance)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    9. Tableau I: La petite Bohémienne seule (The gypsy girl alone)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    10. Tableau I: Tempo I - Animé

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    11. Tableau I: Interlude

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    12. Tableau II: Giocoso - Più lento e calmo - Un peu animé

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    13. Tableau II: Adage: Large - Poco animando

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    14. Tableau II: Vivace - Più moderato - Più vivo

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    15. Tableau II: Interlude

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    16. Tableau III: Le loup et la belle dans la forêt (Beauty and the wolf in the forest)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    17. Tableau III: Danse de mort du Loup (The wolf's dying dance)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    18. Tableau III: Rideau (Curtain)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    19. No. 1. D'ombre et de silence

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    20. No. 2. Sur un même accord

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud

    21. No. 3. Le jeu des contraires

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud


The music in this album spans a forty-year period from 1948 to 1988 and reflects Dutilleux’s stylistic development as a composer. He considered the Sonata to be the first main work in his catalogue and it represents a turning away from tradition and embraces the transformative musical explorations of the day. The Three Préludes are pieces of concentrated atmospheres, ‘a kind of study of timbres’, in the composer’s words, and each are dedicated to a renowned pianist: No. 1 to Arthur Rubinstein, No. 2 to Claude Helffer, and No. 3 to Eugene Istomin. Dutilleux’s lively music for the ballet Le Loup (‘The Wolf’) is heard here in a première recording of the original piano solo version.

REVIEW:

The pianist here is the veteran Jean-Pierre Armengaud, who has recorded a great deal of French piano music and also works as a musicologist. He studied under Geneviève Joy and was also given advice by Dutilleux and, not surprisingly, his performance is much like hers. If it sounds rather more full-blooded that may well be because the excellent new recording is rather better than that provided for Joy in her own recording of 1988 on Erato. Dutilleux also approved of his performances of the Prèludes. His performance of the piano version of Le Loup is sparkling and convincing and sounds like idiomatic piano music. The sleeve notes, in English and French are really helpful and this is a valuable issue.

-- MusicWeb International