Hugues Dufourt / Johannes Brahms / Ludwig van Beethoven

Hugues Dufourt / Johannes Brahms / Ludwig van Beethoven

Archive 2006
Music

Concert I
Hugues Dufourt
An Schwager Kronos
Meeresstille et Rastlose Liebe (1997)
Johannes Brahms
Sonata No 3 in F minor, opus 108
Concert II
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata n°8 in ut mineur, opus 13, “pathétique”
Hugues Dufourt
Erlkönig (2006)
Commissioned by Festival d’Automne à Paris, Musée d’Orsay and Festival Archipel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No 21 in ut major, opus 53, "waldstein"
François-Frédéric Guy, piano
Co-presented by Musée d’Orsay and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of SACEM

A pioneer in spectral and electro-acoustic music, Dufourt sets out to reexamine what made 19th century piano music so vital and so innovative. He also approaches romanticism through lieder, whose fantastic dimension expresses the aspiration to transcend the inexorability of time. The leader also serve to reactivate reminiscences which are used to bridge the 19th and the 21st centuries.