Dutilleux, Henri - Complete Solo Piano Music - Chen, John
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• Although he has long been acknowledged as among the leading figures of his generation, Dutilleux's reputation rests on little more than a dozen major works, the result of an approach to composition which is as painstaking as it is methodical. His early works include a number of scores for theatre and radio productions (mostly withdrawn), as well as several songs and also test-pieces for the wind categories of the Paris Conservatoire. It was only with the Piano Sonata that Dutilleux felt he had created a work worthy to be regarded as his 'Opus 1'.
• Although he has never since essayed a piano work of comparable size or stature (the orchestra being the preferred medium for his large-scale works), Dutilleux has contributed to the solo repertoire a number of characteristic miniatures. Most important among these are the Three Preludes that, while not directly conceived as a cycle (having been written in 1973, 1977 and 1988 respectively), form a microcosm of the composer's formal and expressive concerns over four decades.
• After a concert series last year in his native New Zealand in which John Chen played the Dutilleux Piano Sonata, the New Zealand Listener reported this: “a truly inspiring performance that makes one even more eager for Chen's forthcoming Naxos recording of this composer's complete piano music.”
"John Chen framstår som en god förmedlare av denna personliga och ofta utsökta musik"
(Nerikes Allehanda)
John Chen, piano
Henri Dutilleux
Piano Sonata
1. I. Allegro con moto
2. II. Lied
3. III. Choral et variations
Three Preludes
4. No. 1. D'ombre et de silence
5. No. 2. Sur un meme accord
6. No. 3. Le jeu des contraires
Au gre des ondes
7. I. Prelude et berceuse
8. II. Claquettes
9. III. Improvisation
10. IV. Mouvement perpetuel
11. V. Hommage a Bach
12. VI. Etude
13. Bergerie
14. Blackbird
15. Tous les chemins … menent a Rome
16. Resonances
17. Petit air a domir debout
18. Mini prelude en eventail