A new recording of all the major works for piano by a foundational figure in French music of the early 20th century.

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Composer: Paul Dukas
Artist: Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

Cover: Catherine La Rose (12) by Armand Point (18601932)

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 selfcriticism 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 largescale works which bring together a reverence for the recent and longgone 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 40minute Piano Sonata which has long been regarded as a summit of findesiècle 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 MarcAndré Hamelin, and shows himself equipped for the task, having already accumulated a critically acclaimed catalogue of hypervirtuoso 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'aprèsmidi d'un faune.

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Tracklist:
Piano Sonata in EFlat Minor:
0:00:00 I. Modérément vite
0:11:29 II. Calme, un peu lent, très soutenu
0:22:47 III. Vivement, avec légèreté
0:32:11 IV. Très lentanimé

Variations, interlude et finale sur un thème de Rameau:
0:46:02 I. Menuet
0:46:34 II. Var. I. Tendrement
0:47:13 III. Var. II. Assez vif, très rythmé
0:47:48 IV. Var. III. Sans hâte, délicatement
0:48:51 V. Var. IV. Un peu animé, avec légèreté
0:49:28 VI. Var. V. Lent
0:50:45 VII. Var. VI. Modéré
0:51:52 VIII. Var. VII. Assez vif
0:52:19 IX. Var. VIII. Très modéré
0:53:21 X. Var. IX. Animé
0:53:47 XI. Var. X. Sans lenteur, bien marqué
0:54:37 XII. Var. XI. Sombre, assez lent
0:56:26 XIII. Interlude
0:58:43 XIV. Finale. Var. XII. Modérément animé

1:03:21 Prélude élégiaque sur le nom de Haydn
1:08:32 La plainte, au loin, du faune…

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