IDAGIO | Gabriel Dupont: La Maison dans les dunes - Gustave Samazeuilh: Le Chant de la mer 3760127224181

Featuring

Marie-Catherine Girod
Gabriel Dupont
Gustave Samazeuilh

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Performer Biography

Marie-Catherine Girod, the pianist on this album, is known for her non-conformist repertoire choices and has received a 'Choc de l'année' award for a previous Gabriel Dupont recording.

Compositional Technique

Gustave Samazeuilh's Le Chant de la mer is considered one of the most technically perilous works by a French composer of its era, comparable to Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.

Composition History

Gabriel Dupont's two major piano cycles, Les Heures Dolentes and La Maison dans les Dunes, are poignant reflections of his life overshadowed by painful illness.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Gabriel Dupont's La Maison dans les Dunes uses the beauty of nature to evoke a sense of melancholy, constantly reminding the composer of the brevity of life.

Composer Biography

Gustave Samazeuilh, a composer and music critic, was born into an artistic family and was exposed to Wagner's Tetralogy at Bayreuth in 1896 by his father.

Composer Biography

Gabriel Dupont's promising career was cut short by an early death from tuberculosis on August 3, 1914, at the age of 37.

Compositional Technique

Gabriel Dupont's piano writing in La Maison dans les Dunes features harmonic complexities like whole-tone scales, bitonality, and successive fifths, yet maintains melodic instinct and textural clarity.