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Dukas: Complete Piano Music / Maltempo
Piano Classics

Dukas: Complete Piano Music / Maltempo

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Details

Composer
Paul Dukas
Artist
Vincenzo Maltempo
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Feb 03, 2023
Catalog #
PCL10171
UPC
5029365101714

About

A new recording of all the major works for piano by a foundational figure in French music of the early 20th century. Born in 1865, Dukas could have (and probably did) compose a good deal literally and stylistically in the 19th century, but his fastidious craftsmanship and self-criticism saw him burn far more music than he allowed to survive. All of a sudden, on the turn of the new century, he wrote two large-scale works which bring together a reverence for the recent and long-gone past with bold new thinking of how to write for the piano. Begun in 1899, the Variations take an innocent dance theme by Rameau and subject it to a dazzling sequence of treatments coloured by strict counterpoint, dreamy rhapsody and a Lisztian scale of piano writing. Even more ambitious and contrapuntal in its workings is the 40-minute Piano Sonata which has long been regarded as a summit of fin-de-siècle piano writing. The Sonata has often been compared to Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata for its colossal dimensions, its structural complexities and its tightrope virtuoso writing. Dukas himself later discussed its journey in terms of a symbolic victory over ‘the beast within’, and ‘the triumph of Apollo over the Pythian serpent’. Vincenzo Maltempo follows in the footsteps of virtuosos such as Michel Ponti and Marc-André Hamelin, and shows himself equipped for the task, having already accumulated a critically acclaimed catalogue of hyper-virtuoso repertoire on Piano Classics, including five albums of Alkan, the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Liszt and the complete Sonatas of Scriabin. He possesses the virtuosity to burn which this music demands, but also the poetic sensibility to bring the most subtle nuances of colour to bear on two miniatures from much later in Dukas’s career, a Prélude in memory of Haydn and a deeply felt tribute to the memory of Debussy which makes haunting reference to the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 I. Modérément vite 11:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Modérément vite
    Duration
    11:16
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  2. 2 II. Calme - un peu lent - très soutenu 11:31
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Calme - un peu lent - très soutenu
    Duration
    11:31
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  3. 3 III. Vivement, avec légèreté 09:24
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Vivement, avec légèreté
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  4. 4 IV. Très lent - Animé 13:50
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Très lent - Animé
    Duration
    13:50
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  5. 5 Theme menuet 00:32
    Track
    5
    Title
    Theme menuet
    Duration
    00:32
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  6. 6 Variation 1: Tendrement 00:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    Variation 1: Tendrement
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  7. 7 Variation 2: Assez vif très rythmé 00:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variation 2: Assez vif très rythmé
    Duration
    00:35
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  8. 8 Variation 3: Sans hâte délicatement 01:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variation 3: Sans hâte délicatement
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  9. 9 Variation 4: Un peu animé avec légèreté 00:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    Variation 4: Un peu animé avec légèreté
    Duration
    00:36
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  10. 10 Variation 5: Lent 01:17
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variation 5: Lent
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  11. 11 Variation 6: Modéré 01:06
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variation 6: Modéré
    Duration
    01:06
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  12. 12 Variation 7: Assez fig 00:27
    Track
    12
    Title
    Variation 7: Assez fig
    Duration
    00:27
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  13. 13 Variation 8: Très modéré 01:01
    Track
    13
    Title
    Variation 8: Très modéré
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  14. 14 Variation 9: Animé 00:26
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variation 9: Animé
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  15. 15 Variation 10: Sans lenteur bien marqué 00:49
    Track
    15
    Title
    Variation 10: Sans lenteur bien marqué
    Duration
    00:49
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  16. 16 Variation 11: Sombre assez lent 01:49
    Track
    16
    Title
    Variation 11: Sombre assez lent
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  17. 17 Interlude 02:16
    Track
    17
    Title
    Interlude
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  18. 18 Variation 12: Finale: Modérément animé 04:37
    Track
    18
    Title
    Variation 12: Finale: Modérément animé
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  19. 19 Prélude élégiaque sur le nom de Haydn 05:11
    Track
    19
    Title
    Prélude élégiaque sur le nom de Haydn
    Duration
    05:11
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo
  20. 20 Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy: No. 1. La plainte, au loin, du faune … 05:24
    Track
    20
    Title
    Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy: No. 1. La plainte, au loin, du faune …
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Paul Dukas
    Performer
    Vincenzo Maltempo