Dutilleux: Complete Solo Piano Music
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HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Complete Solo Piano Music
John Chen (piano)
[ Naxos Piano Laureate series / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 6 February 2007
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In 2004, at the age of 18, the Malaysian-born pianist John Chen became the youngest ever winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition. The previous year he won the Lev Vlassenko Australasian Piano Competition, where he swept all the special prizes.
"Born in Kuala Lumpur but a New Zealand citizen, John Chen was the winner of the prestigious Sydney Piano Competition in 2004 when he was 18. Rather than yet more Schumann or Chopin, he has sensibly chosen as his CD début to record more offbeat repertoire, the complete piano music of Dutilleux, and it is difficult to imagine it being served more brilliantly or idiomatically. The Piano Sonata of 1948 was one of the composer's first works to attract wide attention, and it remains the most important, thoughtful and beautifully written. Yet each of the smaller pieces makes its mark crisply and without inflation, consistently inventive, with intriguing titles adding to their charms. Chen's playing is magnetic and well controlled, but giving the impression of a pianist improvising. There have been excellent accounts of these pieces before, including one of the Sonata by its dedicatee, Geneviève Joy, the composer's wife, but this is now a first recommendation. Very good sound." Penguin Guide
Tracks:
3 Preludes
Au gre des ondes
Bergerie
Blackbird
Mini prelude en eventail
Petit air a domir debout
Piano Sonata
Resonances
Tous les chemins … menent a Rome
