Les trios à clavier

Description

This second recording in our anniversary season lifts the veil on a far too little-known Belgian composer: Désiré Pâque. A precursor of Arnold Schönberg, his musical style is characterized by the use of an almost atonal polytonality, without ever becoming confined to either musical system. In terms of form, he is the inventor of a compositional process that he himself called “constant addition,” which consists of a permanent thematic expansion, in other words the constant addition of new musical ideas, which are not developed, transformed, or brought back. But what must above all be remembered about Désiré Pâque’s music is the passionate temperament that is constantly expressed in it. He was first and foremost a Romantic composer.