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Jean Doyen plays Chopin, Liszt & music from France | APR APR6030

Jean Doyen plays Chopin, Liszt & music from France

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Label: APR

Cat No: APR6030

Barcode: 5024709160303

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 28th June 2019

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About

Jean Doyen is perhaps the archetypal French pianist. Taught by Louis Diémer and Marguerite Long, he went on to become the second longest serving piano professor in the Paris Conservatoire’s history and largely confined his career to his homeland. In addition, his repertoire centred on the French classics, with Chopin also taking pride of place.

His early recordings reveal a spectacular technique coupled with a generous poetry – it’s no wonder he was chosen for this premiere recording of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. His Chopin op.2 Variations and the complete Book 1 of Debussy’s Images are also recording firsts, but for sheer virtuoso exhilaration, his rare Sonabel disc of Chabrier’s España is hard to beat. Surprisingly, none of these marvellous performances have previously been reissued.

Contents:

CD 1:
Chopin
1.Variations on Mozart’s ‘Là ci darem la mano’, op.2 (January 1936)
- Unnamed orchestra / Jean Krettly
2. Ballade no.1 in G minor, op.23 (27 February 1941)
3. Ballade no.2 in F major, op.38 (28 February 1941)
4. Ballade no.3 in A flat major, op.47 (28 February 1941)
5. Ballade no.4 in F minor, op.52 (27 February 1941)
6-7. Waltzes in D flat major ‘Minute’, op.64 no.1 & G flat major op.70 no.1 (28 February 1941)
Liszt
Trois Études de concert, S144 (3 March 1943):
8. Il lamento
9. La leggierezza
10. Un sospiro
Zwei Konzertetüden, S145 (circa June/July 1935):
11. Waldesrauschen
12. Gnomenreigen

CD 2:
1. Chabrier/Chevillard - España (arr. piano solo) (circa 1930)
2. Chabrier - Bourrée fantasque recorded early 1935
3. Saint-Saëns - Valse-Caprice ‘Wedding Cake’, op76 (August 1935)
- Cantrelle Quartet
Fauré
4. Barcarolle no.2 in G major, op.41 (early 1935)
5. Nocturne no.6 in D flat major, op.63 (23 February 1937)
Debussy
6-8. Images Book 1 (15 March 1943)
9. Poissons d’or (from Images Book 2) (early 1935)
10-12. Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (19 May 1937)

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