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Title: Melancolies
Condition: New
Format: CD
EAN: 0738759925069
Genre: Classical
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
After many years of performing as a concert pianist, working as the artistic director for the Barachois Summer Music Series and collaborating on a variety of critically acclaimed musical projects across Canada, Julien Leblanc has released his first solo album, a piano recording entitled Mélancolies. The album is a compilation of French compositions that became a staple of Leblancs repertoire after he discovered them early on in his career. The composers included in this recorded collection Franck, Poulenc and Dutilleux all hail from France and their combined output stretches from the mid-nineteenth century to Dutilleuxs last work which was published in 2009 when he was ninety-three. Francis Poulenc was a less avant-garde contemporary of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau and so, his work is accessible but inventive and fresh. Poulencs Fifteen Improvisations are known for their charming and buoyant character as well as for the technical artistry of the composers pedalling. Henri Dutilleuxs work was more heavily influenced by his environmental context when he was composing music just after World War Two. The included piece by Dutilleux, Sonata for piano, denotes the turbulence, anguish and anxiety that pervaded during that period through his use of contrast he juxtaposes rhythmic and jagged sections with sensual, dreamlike and ethereal parts. Composing fifty years before Dutilleux and Poulenc, César Francks Prélude, choral et fugue is religious and takes a cyclic form. In its closing coda, Franck masterfully superimposes the previous sections of his composition. The character of the work is philosophical and contemplative yet at the same time passionate and fervid. Julien Leblanc connects these differing French compositions through his acute sensibilities and expressive piano playing. He fuses the works together with a consistent expression of melancholy which he identifies in each work.
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: LEBLANC,JULIEN
Record Label: Leaf Music

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