Giuseppe Taccogna – Dupont: Les heures dolentes (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Giuseppe Taccogna – Dupont: Les heures dolentes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:59 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Piano Classics

Born in 1878, Gabriel Èduard Xavier Dupont entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 15, studied with Massenet and Widor, and enjoyed early success with an opera performed at La Scala before dying of tuberculosis at the age of only 36. Dupont was severely affected by the disease as a teenager and wrote this hour-long piano cycle between 1903 and 1905. In 14 movements, Les Heures Dolentes (“The Sad Hours”) depicts the observations of a sick man contemplating the world from his sickbed. The cycle begins in relative calm and gradually increases in intensity, punctuated by periods of respite and consolation (“Une amie” comes with flowers) and impressions of life outside (children playing in the garden), before reaching its climax in the penultimate piece (“Nuit blanche – Hallucinations”) and finally returning to the calm that confronts the listener with a choice between hope and death. If not for his untimely death, Dupont might have been one of the best known and most admired voices of musical impressionism. A modern resurgence of interest brings to light his major works, focusing on music for the stage and for the piano: This release is the first in a series of Piano Classics documenting his complete piano works, which includes a second major cycle, La Maison dans les dunes.

Tracklist:

1-1. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: I. Epigraphe (02:18)
1-2. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: II. Le soir tombe dans la chambre (05:24)
1-3. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: III. Du soleil au jardin (03:49)
1-4. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: IV. Chanson de la pluie (03:42)
1-5. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: V. Après-midi de dimanche (04:23)
1-6. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: VI. Le médicin (02:01)
1-7. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: VII. Une amie est venue avec des fleurs (02:55)
1-8. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: VII. La chanson du vent (05:55)
1-9. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: IX. Au coin du feu (03:27)
1-10. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: X. Coquetteries (05:32)
1-11. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: XI. La mort rôde (06:12)
1-12. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: XII. Des enfants jouent dans le jardin (06:36)
1-13. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: XIII. Nuit blanche – Hallucinations (08:18)
1-14. Giuseppe Taccogna – Les heures dolentes: XIV. Calme (04:21)

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