Dupont: Poème & Journée de printemps

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A poignant reminder of the sadly short-lived Gabriel Dupont...a supreme melodist in the Schumann-Faure mould whose haunting music deserves to be far better known. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2014
Catalogue No: MIR238
Label: Mirare
Length: 77 minutes

Dupont, G: Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes

Work length33:57

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I. Sombre et douloureux

Track length15:30

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II. Clair et calme

Track length5:31

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III. Joyeux et ensoleillé

Track length12:56

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: I. Epigraphe

Work length2:05

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Dupont, G: La Maison dans les dunes: III. La maison du souvenir

Work length2:46

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: III. Du soleil au jardin

Work length3:16

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: V. Après-midi de dimanche

Work length3:23

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: VII. Une amie est venue avec des fleurs

Work length2:54

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Dupont, G: La Maison dans les dunes: V. Mélancolie du bonheur

Work length3:49

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: X. Coquetteries

Work length5:18

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: XII. Des enfants jouent dans le jardin

Work length5:57

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Dupont, G: Les heures dolentes: XIV. Calme

Work length3:53

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Dupont, G: Journée de printemps, pour violon et piano

Work length10:03

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I. Au matin

Track length4:52

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II. Au soir

Track length5:11

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The composer Gabriel Dupont [March 1, 1878 – August 1, 1914] may be little known today but he studied composition with Massenet, organ with Guilmant and, between 1897 and 1903, he also studied composition with Charles-Marie Widor. In 1901, while performing his military service, Dupont competed for the Prix de Rome: he won second prize, behind André Caplet but ahead of Maurice Ravel. He was also named laureate of the Sonzogno competition for his opera 'La Cabrera', which was later presented with success at La Scala and then at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in 1905. He died aged only 36 in 1914 of tuberculosis; a last representative of French Romanticism.

Lyrical and inspired his music sings of nature: the sea, the wind, the rain.

Marie-Catherine Girod has championed unsung and forgotten repertoire of the piano for over 20 years. She was resposible for the first recording of 'The House in the dunes', in 1997, a cycle of ten pieces for the piano. This disc also features the first recording of 'Poème', for violin and piano, and two major cycles for piano quintet. Recorded in the city of the Prazak Quartet, Prague, on a Petrov piano with muted tones, perfectly suited to his melancholy universe, this album proves that Gabriel Dupont is a composer worthy of rediscovery.

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August 2014

A poignant reminder of the sadly short-lived Gabriel Dupont...a supreme melodist in the Schumann-Faure mould whose haunting music deserves to be far better known.

September 2014

In these miniatures, as Marie-Catherine Girod shows in these affectionately turned performances of selections from both sets, Dupont expressed an attractive, limpid wistfulness.

Dupont: Poème & Journée de printemps

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