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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Théodore Dubois - Piano Concertos (Cédric Tiberghien)


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Composer: Théodore Dubois
  • (01) Concerto-capriccioso in C minor
  • (02) Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
  • (06) Suite for piano and string orchestra in F minor

Cédric Tiberghien, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze, conductor

Date: 2013
Label: Hyperion

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Review

The Parisian’s concertos for 60th Rom-Con piano disc

The booklet for this, the 60th volume of Hyperion’s landmark series, quotes an entry from Dubois’s diary just two years before his death: ‘I don’t know if I’m wrong, but I feel quite sure that if later on, after I’m gone, [my works] come to the attention of unprejudiced musicians and critics, there will be a backlash in my favour!’

Until recently, only Dubois’s Toccata in G and Fiat lux for organ remained in the active repertoire, but several new recordings of his chamber works and church music reveal a lyrical, conservative craftsman with an extensive range and output. What he lacks in individuality and consistent inspiration, Dubois makes up for in appealing melodic invention and, on this disc, imaginative orchestration.

I’m not sure that the Concerto-capriccioso (1876), the earliest of the three works, isn’t also the most effective. Its simple one-movement ABA format unfolds with a continuous plethora of ideas eagerly taken up by Cédric Tiberghien and the ever-alert Andrew Manze. The Second Piano Concerto from 20 years later has four movements, the extended first of which is a stop-start affair over-burdened with rhetorical gestures and no clear sense of direction. The slow movement is really charming (beautifully played by Tiberghien), the scherzo à la SaintSaëns terrific but all too brief, the finale launched by a large scale cadenza recapitulating all the earlier themes.

The four-movement Suite from 1917, using the same harmonic language of 40 years earlier, is a pleasant enough listen but, despite the committed artistry of Tiberghien and Hyperion’s customary top-drawer recording, is, with the other two works, not quite enough to unleash the backlash Dubois believed might be his.


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Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher. Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne; he studied first under Louis Fanart and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. From 1871 he taught at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Paul Dukas, Albéric Magnard, Guy Ropartz, and Florent Schmitt, among others. Dubois was director of the Conservatoire from 1896 (succeeding Ambroise Thomas on the latter's death) to 1905. As a composer, Dubois wrote many religious works, operas, ballets, oratorios and three symphonies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Dubois

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Cédric Tiberghien (born 5 May 1975) is a French pianist. He studied piano with Michèle Perrier in Noyon, and with Frédéric Aguessy and Gérard Frémy at the Paris Conservatory, where he received the Premier Prix in 1992, at the age of 17. He won a number of international awards, such as 6th prize at the 1995 Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv and Premier Grand Prix at the 1998 Marguerite-Long-Jacques-Thibaud Competition in Paris. From 2005 to 2007, Tiberghien is part of the New Generation Artists of the BBC. He recorded severals recordings for Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Tiberghien
https://www.cedrictiberghien.com/

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