Title: Apres Un Reve Belle Epoque Nights at the Piano Artist: Emmanuel Despax Label: Signum Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 635212074725 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2023-08-18 Number of Discs: 1
"Après un rêve" is an ode to the French Belle Époque repertoire, depicting the beauty of dreams and the night. The album is an opportunity to hear and perhaps discover rarely played / rarely recorded wonderful works (Chaminade Nocturne, Duparc Aux étoiles, Poulenc Les soirées de Nazelles), alongside central pillars of the repertoire, and includes a world premiere of Despax's arrangement of Après un rêve. The album is attributed to his grandfather, Jacques Charpentreau, a French poet who adored this repertoire and frequently drew inspiration from the night in his works. Despax has curated some of his poetry, as well as works by other poets he admired to complement this music, taking the listener on an immersive poetic and musical journey through this noctur- nal landscape
Tracks: 1.1 Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 1.2 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Préambule 1.3 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Le comble de la distinction 1.4 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~II. Le coeur sur la main 1.5 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~III. La Désinvolture et la discrétion 1.6 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~La suite dans les idées 1.7 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Le charme enjôleur 1.8 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Le contentement de soi 1.9 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Le goût du malheur 1.10 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~L'alerte vieillesse 1.11 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Cadence 1.12 Soirées de Nazelles, FP 84~Final 1.13 Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Claire de lune 1.14 Danse macabre, Op. 40 1.15 Nocturne, Op. 165 1.16 Gaspard de la nuit~I. Ondine 1.17 Gaspard de la nuit~II. Le Gibet 1.18 Gaspard de la nuit~III. Scarbo 1.19 Aux étoiles
