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Composer: Arthur Honegger
Jean-François Antonioli, piano
Date: 2008
Label: Timpani
http://timpani-records.com/1c1138.php
- (01) Toccata et variations
- (03) Sept Pièces brèves
- (10) Prélude, Arioso et Fughette
- (13) Deux Esquisses (en notation Obouhov)
- (15) Le Cahier romand
- (20) Trois Pièces
- (23) Sarabande
- (24) Hommage à Roussel
- (25) Berceuse
- (26) Petite pièce en sol
- (27) Scenic railway
- (28) Souvenir de Chopin
- (29) Matamore
- (30) Partita
Jean-François Antonioli, piano
Date: 2008
Label: Timpani
http://timpani-records.com/1c1138.php
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Fine performances of little-known music throw new light on Honegger
I first encountered Honegger’s piano music on an old Turnabout LP played by Jürg Vintschger (since reissued on CD but currently unavailable). His was not a complete survey – but then neither is this Timpani release, despite its claim of completeness – though it included most of the major items, such as the Toccata and Variations (1916), Three Pieces (1917), Seven Short Pieces (1919-20) and Prelude, Arioso and Fughetta on the Name of BACH (1932). Antonioli’s new programme covers even more repertoire, mainly several miniatures and the meaty Partita for two pianos (1940), but still omits several published items, such as the suites from Les trois contrepoints (1926-29) and Les aventures du roi Pausole (1930-31), La neige sur Rome (1925) and the Petits airs sur un basse célèbre (1941).
It must be said straight out that Antonioli proves an even more persuasive advocate for this music than was Vintschger. Despite an impressive array of symphonies, quartets and sonatas, Honegger never wrote a large-scale piano sonata or suite which, listening to Antonioli’s superb handling of the torrents of notes in the Toccata or the quasi-symphonic writing in the Three Pieces and Partita, seems a loss. Antonioli’s touch is light and delicate when it needs to be, too, as in the famous Sarabande from Album des Six (1920), Souvenir de Chopin (extracted from a 1946 film score) or the splendid Matamore (from music to Abel Gance’s 1943 film Le Capitaine Fracasse). Be warned, though, the brief Scenic Railway (1937) may disappoint musical trainspotters in its lack of drama. Timpani’s recording is natural and clear, the acoustic neither too close nor overly spacious. Recommended.
-- Guy Rickards, Gramophone
More reviews:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/arthur-honegger-loeuvre-pour-piano-mw0001575707
https://www.audaud.com/honegger-works-for-piano-jean-francois-antonioli-piano-ju-ying-song-piano-timpani/
https://www.amazon.com/Works-Piano-ARTHUR-HONEGGER/dp/B001JFKV7W
I first encountered Honegger’s piano music on an old Turnabout LP played by Jürg Vintschger (since reissued on CD but currently unavailable). His was not a complete survey – but then neither is this Timpani release, despite its claim of completeness – though it included most of the major items, such as the Toccata and Variations (1916), Three Pieces (1917), Seven Short Pieces (1919-20) and Prelude, Arioso and Fughetta on the Name of BACH (1932). Antonioli’s new programme covers even more repertoire, mainly several miniatures and the meaty Partita for two pianos (1940), but still omits several published items, such as the suites from Les trois contrepoints (1926-29) and Les aventures du roi Pausole (1930-31), La neige sur Rome (1925) and the Petits airs sur un basse célèbre (1941).
It must be said straight out that Antonioli proves an even more persuasive advocate for this music than was Vintschger. Despite an impressive array of symphonies, quartets and sonatas, Honegger never wrote a large-scale piano sonata or suite which, listening to Antonioli’s superb handling of the torrents of notes in the Toccata or the quasi-symphonic writing in the Three Pieces and Partita, seems a loss. Antonioli’s touch is light and delicate when it needs to be, too, as in the famous Sarabande from Album des Six (1920), Souvenir de Chopin (extracted from a 1946 film score) or the splendid Matamore (from music to Abel Gance’s 1943 film Le Capitaine Fracasse). Be warned, though, the brief Scenic Railway (1937) may disappoint musical trainspotters in its lack of drama. Timpani’s recording is natural and clear, the acoustic neither too close nor overly spacious. Recommended.
-- Guy Rickards, Gramophone
More reviews:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/arthur-honegger-loeuvre-pour-piano-mw0001575707
https://www.audaud.com/honegger-works-for-piano-jean-francois-antonioli-piano-ju-ying-song-piano-timpani/
https://www.amazon.com/Works-Piano-ARTHUR-HONEGGER/dp/B001JFKV7W
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Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six, but his style is weightier and more solemn than that of his colleagues. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which was inspired by the sound of a steam locomotive. The principal elements of Honegger's style are: Bachian counterpoint, driving rhythms, melodic amplitude, highly coloristic harmonies, an impressionistic use of orchestral sonorities, and a concern for formal architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Honegger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Honegger
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Jean-François Antonioli (born February 25, 1959 in Lausanne) is a Swiss pianist, conductor and piano pedagogue. He studied piano at Conservatoire de Lausanne and Conservatoire de Paris, with Pierre Sancan, Carlo Zecchi and Bruno Seidlhofer. Antonioli has performed solo or with orchestra in many musical centres in Europe, North America, Asia, and has recorded more than 20 CDs. His most famous recording are works of Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Joachim Raff and Arthur Honegger. He holds position of the Head of the Piano department at the Conservatoire de Lausanne.
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