Jean-Pierre Armengaud

Jean-Pierre Armengaud – Dutilleux: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:10 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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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 Pr’eludes 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 premi`ere recording of the original piano solo version.
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Jean-Pierre Armengaud – d’Indy: Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op. 63 & Tableaux de voyage, Op. 33 (Excerpts) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:26 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Classical
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A student of Franck, Vincent d’Indy founded the Schola Cantorum de Paris where he taught for many years. He was also a conductor, with a busy schedule of international touring. His compositions were permeated by the influence of Wagner – he attended the premiere of the Ring cycle – but in time he also absorbed the influence of French folk music, especially from the Vivarais, his ancestral home. Vincent d’Indy’s large-scale Piano Sonata is one of a small but masterful sequence of non-programmatic instrumental works that he wrote in the first decade of the 20th century. Notable for a novel application of variation form in its opening movement it fuses experimentation with expressive power. Poetic atmospheres and landscapes are evoked in the Tableaux de voyage, postcards of his walks in Germany.
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Jean-Pierre Armengaud – Franck: Piano Rarities – Original Works & Transcriptions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:54 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Few composers have enjoyed a late flowering to compare with that of César Franck. Many of the great works in this recording were composed during his final decades and still stand today as powerful representatives of French music in the post-Franco-Prussian War period. The influence of Wagner can be heard in the poetic evocations of Les Éolides, while the magnificent Prélude, Choral et Fugue, much admired by Liszt, reinterprets well-known Baroque-era genres into an unforgettably expressive Romantic aesthetic. Widely acknowledged as one today’s great interpreters of French music, Jean-Pierre Armengaud presents an album of rarities composed for piano by Franck and arrangements of the composer’s works by distinguished musicians from the early 20th century
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