Solitaires

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Label
BIS
Release Date
September 11, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DUTILLEUX MESSIAEN RAVEL
    • PERFORMER
      Kathryn Stott
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 11, 2015
    • UPC
      7318599921488
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2148
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. Prélude

      Composer: Jehan Alain

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    2. Fugue

      Composer: Jehan Alain

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    3. I. Allegro con moto

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    4. II. Lied

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    5. III. Choral et variations

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    6. No. 1. Prelude

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    7. No. 2. Fugue

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    8. No. 3. Forlane

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    9. No. 4. Rigaudon

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    10. No. 5. Menuet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    11. No. 6. Toccata

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Kathryn Stott

    12. No. 15, Le baiser de l'enfant-Jésus

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Performer: Kathryn Stott


From the French piano literature of the first half of the 20th c. Kathryn Stott has selected four 'solitaires' – each work occupying a special place in its composer’s œuvre. Jehan Alain's brief Prelude (1935) is followed by Henri Dutilleux’s only piano sonata (1948), written for and premiered by Geneviève Joy, the composer’s wife.
Dedications to friends of the composer killed in the first years of WWI mark Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, his last work for piano solo. Closing the disc is Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus from Olivier Messiaen's monumental fresco Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus.