Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Gabriel Dupont (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Gabriel Dupont (2014)
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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.

Tracklist:
01. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes: I. Sombre et douloureux (15:30)
02. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes: II. Clair et calme (05:31)
03. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Poème pour piano et quatuor à cordes: III. Joyeux et ensoleillé (12:56)
04. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: I. Epigraphe (02:05)
05. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – La maison dans les dunes: III. La maison du souvenir (02:46)
06. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: III. Du soleil au jardin (03:16)
07. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: V. Après-midi de dimanche (03:23)
08. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: VII. Une amie est venue avec des fleurs (02:54)
09. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – La maison dans les dunes: V. Mélancolie du bonheur (03:49)
10. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: X. Coquetteries (05:18)
11. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: XII. Des enfants jouent dans le jardin (05:57)
12. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Les Heures dolentes: XIV. Calme (03:53)
13. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Journée de printemps, pour violon & piano: I. Au matin (04:52)
14. Marie-Catherine Girod, Quatuor Prazak – Journée de printemps, pour violon & piano: II. Au soir (05:11)

Personnel:
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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