Dutilleux: Piano Works Jean-Pierre Armengaud

• Henri Dutilleux (1916 - 2013): Sonate pour piano:
• 1 Dutilleux: Sonate pour piano: I. Allegro con moto 08:32
• 2 Dutilleux: Sonate pour piano: II. Lied. Assez lent - Un poco più mosso 06:27
• 3 Dutilleux: Sonate pour piano: III. Choral et Variations 11:38
• Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]:
• 4 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Allegro - Tableau I: La place du village, aux abords d'une forêt [a village square, on the edge of a forest] 01:33
• 5 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: Premier danse de la petite Bohémienne [the gypsy girl's first dance] 00:42
• 6 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: Entrée de la noce [Entrance of the wedding party] 00:23
• 7 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: Deuxième danse de la petite Bohémienne [the gypsy girl's second dance] 01:19
• 8 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: Troisième danse de la petite Bohémienne [the gypsy girl's third dance] 01:34
• 9 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: La petite Bohémienne seule [the gypsy girl alone] 01:46
• 10 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: Tempo I - Animé 01:56
• 11 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau I: Interlude 00:31
• 12 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau II: Giocoso - Più lento e calmo - Un peu animé 03:51
• 13 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau II: Adage: Large - Poco animando 04:10
• 14 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau II: Vivace - Più moderato - Più vivo 02:18
• 15 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau II: Interlude 00:58
• 16 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau III: Le loup et la belle dans la forêt [Beauty and the wolf in the forest] 04:40
• 17 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau III: Danse de mort du Loup [the wolf's dying dance] 02:58
• 18 Dutilleux: Le loup (the Wolf) [version for piano]: Tableau III: Rideau [Curtain] 00:19
• 3 Préludes:
• 19 Dutilleux: 3 Préludes: No. 1, D'ombre et de silence 03:04
• 20 Dutilleux: 3 Préludes: No. 2, Sur un même accord 03:38
• 21 Dutilleux: 3 Préludes: No. 3, Le jeu des contraires 07:54
• Total Runtime 01:10:11

Info for Dutilleux: Piano Works

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.

Jean-Pierre Armengaud, piano

Jean-Pierre Armengaud
For several decades Jean-Pierre Armengaud has pursued a particularly rich international career as a pianist and concert-performer, notable for the extent of his repertoire (from Bach to Boulez), by the number of countries to which he has been invited (more than 40) and the importance of his recordings which include five highly acclaimed editions of the complete works of French and Russian composers.

A pupil of Yves Nat and Jacques Février, and of the Russian Stanislav Neuhaus, Armengaud is today acknowledged as one of the great interpreters of French music from Rameau to Henri Dutilleux whose Préludes he has first performed in a number of countries. He has recorded the complete piano music of Satie for Mandala- Harmonia Mundi and some previously unavailable works for the Warner Classics set (awarded a Choc Classica in 2016), of Claude Debussy (as well as three CDs in the centenary complete works Debussy box, awarded a Choc Classica in 2018), of Albert Roussel, of Edison Denisov, the chamber music of Francis Poulenc and some 15 albums (including six for Naxos and Grand Piano) of Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Szymanowski, Ravel, L. Aubert, Poulenc, Milhaud, Messiaen, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez and others.

As both a musicologist and a writer, Jean-Pierre Armengaud has been responsible for music on Radio France and is a distinguished scholar and teacher in universities and in masterclasses at major Conservatoires. His biography of Erik Satie, published by Fayard, was awarded the Prix des Muses, 2009, and he is author and editor of a book of essays, Claude Debussy : La trace et l’écart (published in 2018).

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