Marie-Catherine Girod & Quatuor Prazak - Gabriel Dupont (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes: I. Sombre et douloureux
02. Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes: II. Clair et calme
03. Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes: III. Joyeux et ensoleillé
04. Les Heures dolentes: I. Epigraphe
05. La maison dans les dunes: III. La maison du souvenir
06. Les Heures dolentes: III. Du soleil au jardin
07. Les Heures dolentes: V. Après-midi de dimanche
08. Les Heures dolentes: VII. Une amie est venue avec des fleurs
09. La maison dans les dunes: V. Mélancolie du bonheur
10. Les Heures dolentes: X. Coquetteries
11. Les Heures dolentes: XII. Des enfants jouent dans le jardin
12. Les Heures dolentes: XIV. Calme
13. Journée de printemps, pour violon & piano: I. Au matin
14. Journée de printemps, pour violon & piano: II. Au soir

Composers
Dupont, Gabriel Edouard Xavier (1878-1914)

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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