MARCEL DUPRÉ'S ART OF PIANO

By François-Michel Rignol

Although the piano occupies a significant place in Dupré’s oeuvre, it concerns above all the first part of his career as a musician, a period during which he wrote relatively little for the organ. He would take up with the piano again later on, in the very particular, much more personal context of the piano and organ. ‘After 1920,’ writes Abbé Delestre, ‘specialisation occurs, and the organ will remain at the centre of his output, as if to make it converge entirely on it.’ Beforehand, from the outset, the piano is present, without being exclusive.
Michel Roubinet

ref. SOCD 348

PIAZZOLLA - THE MUSIC OF BUENOS AIRES

Piano works and transcriptions, Christelle Abinasr

Piazzolla’s universe, in which melancholy and vital longing not only cohabit but mutually nurture each other in an exchange that is constantly revisited and renewed, could not be reduced to a narrow definition of tango. Having become, in the broadest sense, the expression of the Argentine soul in all its diversity, in the image of teeming Buenos Aires, it irrigates the pieces, so different yet so related, of Christelle Abinasr’s recital, who felicitously explores paths that are still ill-known.
Lionel Pons

ref. SOCD 345

YVONNE LEFÉBURE

A piano legend in a 24-CD box set!

It has already been thirty years since Yvonne Lefébure left us... Over these decades, we were very anxious to faithfully honour the memory of this woman who, never hesitated in giving her trust to the two novices that we were at the dawn of the 1970s.
In addition to a few gems collected abroad, it was, once again at the French National Audiovisual Institute – decidedly an inexhaustible source! – that I had the good fortune of discovering unsuspected treasures. You may judge by the quality and rarity of the numerous previously unreleased documents present in this set.
Yvette Carbou

ref. SOCD 321/44

PIERRE LABRIC PLAY DEMESSIEUX

Complete Organ Works

Released in 1975 in the United States as a three L.P.s set, this masterpiece recording had not been the subject of a French record production at that time.
Here it is back home at last – good to able to illuminate his valorous performer, aged 95!

ref. SOCD 346/7

VIOLIN PHASE

Contemporary violin pieces by Diego Tosi

The idea of this ‘violon and tape’ recording project came to Diego Tosi thanks to the discovery of pieces by Steve Reich, Jesper Nordin and Georges Aperghis throughout his career with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, whereas other works had been in his repertoire for some fifteen years (such as those by Daniel Tosi and Bernard Parmegiani).
‘My motivation was not only to bring together all these pieces in order to make up an original collection on CD, but also to give our generation of violinists other sources of inspiration conducive to our instrument’ (D.T.).
Pierre-Albert Castanet

ref. SOCD 320

ANNE RODIER SINGS DEODAT DE SEVERAC

Melodies for voice and piano

For the general public, Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) does not necessarily represent an established figure in the pantheon of French art song. The Catalan composer remains associated more with piano literature, be it En Languedoc (1903-04) or Cerdana (1911), than with the universe of the mélodie, dominated in his generation by the tutelary shades of Gabriel Fauré or Henri Duparc. In this sense, our memory is quite unfair, since Séverac notably enriched the art song genre and repertoire. Moreover, how could it be otherwise with a creator as sensitive to the universe of sounds as to the plays of light and of words?
Lionel Pons

ref. SOCD 319

F.Thinat
SOCD 315/6
Phonic Design/Tosi
SOCD 318
Mussorgsky/Gil
SOCD 313
Torres/Gascon Villa
SOCD 314
Imri Talgam
SOCD 317
Mulet/Monin
SOCD 311
Canat de Chizy
SOCD 312
Cochereau/In concert
SOCD 310
Schubert/Braide
SOCD 309
Pachebel/Grémy-Chauliac
FYCD 874
D.d.Severac
SOCD 306/8
Saint-Saens/Labric
SOCD 305
Duruflé/ND
SOCD 304
Mendelssohn/Labric
SOCD 303
Emmanuel/Salamine
SOCD 301