Gabriel Dupont: The Complete Songs

Description

Norman composer of the early 20th century and little-known figure of French music, Gabriel Dupont was nevertheless one of the last representatives of French post-Romanticism, which died out with him on the eve of the Great War. With a remarkable sense of harmony and an undeniable talent as a colorist, Dupont paints fragments of life to evoke a sensation, a moment, an inner landscape. It is this poetics of everyday life that Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës capture in this complete recording, a new stage in their melodic odyssey, sublimating the art of a composer whose supreme refinement consists of being moved (and moving others) by the outline of a wrinkle ('La Rencontre'), a scent ('Crépuscule d'été', 'Le Baiser') or a light ('Douceur du soir').