Dutilleux - Complete Piano Music | Naxos 8557823

Dutilleux - Complete Piano Music

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557823

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd January 2007

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About

Although he has long been acknowledged as among the leading figures of his generation, Dutilleux's reputation rests on little more than a dozen major works, the result of an approach to composition which is as painstaking as it is methodical. His early works include a number of scores for theatre and radio productions (mostly withdrawn), as well as several songs and also test-pieces for the wind categories of the Paris Conservatoire. It was only with the Piano Sonata that Dutilleux felt he had created a work worthy to be regarded as his 'Opus 1'. 
 
Although he has never since essayed a piano work of comparable size or stature (the orchestra being the preferred medium for his large-scale works), Dutilleux has contributed to the solo repertoire a number of characteristic miniatures. Most important among these are the Three Preludes that, while not directly conceived as a cycle (having been written in 1973, 1977 and 1988 respectively), form a microcosm of the composer's formal and expressive concerns over four decades.
 
After a previous concert series in his native New Zealand in which John Chen played the Dutilleux Piano Sonata, the New Zealand Listener reported this: “a truly inspiring performance that makes one even more eager for Chen's forthcoming Naxos recording of this composer's complete piano music.”

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