Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës
AP377 - 1CD - 80' - Mar 28, 2025
The last representative of French post-Romanticism, Gabriel Dupont excelled in the art of capturing the moment, balancing fleeting sensations and inner landscapes. Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës bring this everyday poetry to life in a complete recording where each melody unveils the moving refinement of a composer too often overlooked.
A Norman composer from the early 20th century and a little-known figure in French music, Gabriel Dupont was one of the last representatives of French post-romanticism, which died with him at the dawn of the Great War. With a remarkable sense of harmony and an undeniable talent for colour, Dupont depicted fragments of life to evoke a sensation, a moment, an interior landscape. Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës capture his sensibility, rooted in the everyday life, in this complete recording, a new stage in their melodic odyssey, sublimating the art of a composer whose supreme refinement consists in being moved (and moved) by a wrinkle (‘La Rencontre’), a perfume (‘Crépuscule d'été’, ‘Le Baiser’) or a light (‘Douceur du soir’).
1. The Hearth (1901)
Two Melodies (1908)
2. Caresses
3. Song of the Hazelnuts
4. To the Night (1902)
Two Melodies by Alfred de Musset (1910)
5. Song
6. Serenade to Ninon
7. All Souls' Day (1901)
8. Monsieur Destin (1901)
Caresses (1908)
9. The Encounter
10. The Kiss
11. The Wet Garden (1906)
Two Melodies (1909)
12. Devoutly
13. O Sad, Sad…
Two Melodies (1895)
14. The Rain
15. Autumn Song
16. Song of the Six Little Birds (1912)
17. In Loving (1903)
18. Summer Twilight (1912)
19. Annie (1902)
20. Winter’s Day (1905)
21. Myrrha’s Song (1902)
22. The Startled Ones (1903)
23. Mandolin (1901)
Autumn Poems (1904)
24. If I Have Loved
25. Ophelia
26. In the Time of the Marjoram’s Death
27. The Fountain of Pity
28. The Snow
29. The Silence of the Water
30. Gentle Evening!
31. On the Old Bench
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