Gabriel Dupont
Title: Poeme / La Maison dans les dunes
Format: CD
Details:
Francois Kerdoncuff (piano), Quatuor Louvigny. Dupont is one of those French composers little known, largely because he died at the early age of 36 before able to develop his reputation as a composer. Yet he was successful and highly regarded, even winning competitions ahead of Ravel, and was a brilliant pupil of Widor. Faure was perhaps his biggest influence and in his career Dupont wrote several successful operatic, symphonic, instrumental and vocal works. Strangely, little has been recorded so this is a welcome and attractive CD with the first recordings of Poeme, a piano quintet of monumental proportions, and La Maison, a most evocative and romantic piano work.
Label: Timpani
This item was added to our catalog on Friday 23 May, 2003
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