Gabriel Dupont Marie-Catherine Girod and The Pražák Quartet

• Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914): Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes
• 1I. Sombre et douloureux15:31
• 2II. Clair et calme05:32
• 3III. Joyeux et ensoleillé12:56
• Pièces pour piano solo
• 4Les heures dolentes: I. Epigraphe02:05
• 5La Maison dans les dunes: III. La maison du souvenir02:47
• 6Les heures dolentes: III. Du soleil au jardin03:17
• 7Les heures dolentes: V. Aprés-midi de dimanche03:24
• 8Les heures dolentes: VII. Une amie est venue avec des fleurs02:55
• 9La Maison dans les dunes: V. Mélancolie du bonheur03:50
• 10Les heures dolentes: X. Coquetteries05:18
• 11Les heures dolentes: XII. Des enfants jouent dans le jardin05:57
• 12Les heures dolentes: XIV. Calme03:54
• Journée de printemps, pour violon et piano
• 13I. Au matin04:52
• 14II. Au soir05:12
• Total Runtime01:17:30

Info for Gabriel Dupont

Now unjustly forgotten, Gabriel Dupont left us two large-scale cycles of piano pieces and a sumptuous Quintet for strings and piano. This composer who died aged 36 in 1914 was the last representative of French Romanticism. His inspired, lyrical music sings of nature, the sea, the wind and the rain. Marie Catherine Girod is one of the leading specialists of a figure who is overdue for rediscovery.

For more than twenty years now, Marie Catherine Girod has been a passionate defender of neglected and forgotten repertoire for the piano. It is to her that we owe the world premiere recording of La Maison dans les dunes in 1997. This new disc, recorded in Prague, the city of the celebrated Pražák Quartet, on a Petrov piano whose velvety sonorities are ideally suited to the composer’s melancholy, ‘Proustian’ universe, demonstrates once again that Gabriel Dupont is a composer who is overdue for rediscovery.

This album presents the first world recording of “Journée de Printemps”, poem for violin and piano.

Marie-Catherine Girod, piano

The Pražák Quartet:
Pavel Hůla, 1st violin
Vlastimil Holek, 2nd violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Michal Kaňka, cello

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Booklet for Gabriel Dupont