Jean Roger-Ducasse: The Complete Piano Music

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Roger-Ducasse's is more for lovers of angst than of optimism and there is little in the nature of display…in the major works Jones, an intrepid explorer of so many of music's unjustifiably neglected... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

Release Date: 8th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: NI5927
Label: Nimbus
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

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Roger-Ducasse: Barcarolle

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Roger-Ducasse: Six Préludes

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I. Très nonchalant

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II. Très calme

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III. D'un rythme très précis

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IV. Très libre

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V. D'un rythme capricieux et tender

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Très souple

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Roger-Ducasse: Prelude

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Roger-Ducasse: Etude en Sol dièse mineur

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Roger-Ducasse: Quatre Etudes

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I. Prélude

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II. Fugue

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III. Lent

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IV. Lentement

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Roger-Ducasse: Variations sur un Choral

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Roger-Ducasse: Etude en Sixtes

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Roger-Ducasse: Rythmes

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Roger-Ducasse: Etude en La bémol majeur

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Roger-Ducasse: Arabesques . . .

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Roger-Ducasse: Esquisses pour Piano

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I. Lent

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II. Sans lenteur et gaîment

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III. Sans lenteur

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IV. Lent et grave

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Roger-Ducasse: Arabesques . . . No. 2

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Roger-Ducasse: Sonorités

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Roger-Ducasse: Barcarolle No. 2

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Roger-Ducasse: Barcarolle No. 3

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Roger-Ducasse: Impromptu

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Roger-Ducasse: Chant de l’aube

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Roger-Ducasse: Romance

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Roger-Ducasse: Petite Suite pour piano à quatre mains

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I. Souvenance

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II. Berceuse

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III. Claironnerie

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Roger-Ducasse: Prelude d'un ballet

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Roger-Ducasse: Interlude 'Au jardin de Marguerite'

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Roger-Ducasse: Etudes à quatre mains, pour un Commençant

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I. Presque lent

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II. Sans lenteur

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III. Presque vite

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IV. Lent

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V. Presque vite et très rythmé

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Roger-Ducasse: Livre II

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VI. Sans lenteur

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VII. Lent et triste

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VIII. Assez vite et très rythmé

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Roger-Ducasse: Livre III

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I. Adagio classique

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II. Scherzando

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Roger-Ducasse: J.S. Bach, Passacaglia, BWV582

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Jean Roger-Ducasse was born in Bordeaux on 18 April 1873. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1892 and in 1895, along with Ravel, joined the composition class of Gabriel Fauré. In 1902 he won the second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Alcyone, with Ravel gaining fourth prize. He had a very active role in musical life in Paris founding the Société Musicale Indépendante in 1909 and gaining the position of inspector g eneral for the teaching of singing in Paris schools in 1910. His circle included Fauré, to whom he was a close friend, the famed pianist

Marguerite Long, who performed his Six Preludes in 1912, and Debussy, who Roger-Ducasse joined for the premiere of En Blanc et Noir in 1916. In 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as Professor of Composition at the Paris Conservatoire, a post he held until the outbreak of World War II after which he retired to Bordeaux. He died in Taillan-Médoc, Gironde on 19 July 1954.

Roger-Ducasse's compositions include several songs, two string quartets, numerous orchestral and choral pieces, two stage works and a sizeable group of piano pieces. Contrary to the music of Ravel and Debussy Roger-Ducasse's style is not impressionist but descends from Chopin and more closely aligns with Fauré. The piano music, composed 1906-1923, is typical of his musical language: complex and chromatic, but perfectly formed. It is now high-time to revisit the works of this unjustly forgotten talent.

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October 2015

Roger-Ducasse's is more for lovers of angst than of optimism and there is little in the nature of display…in the major works Jones, an intrepid explorer of so many of music's unjustifiably neglected byways, is a master of every aspect of his daunting task, of music that is 'largely intellectual, which is both its strength and its limitation'…he makes it difficult to imagine performances of a greater lucidity and command.

Jean Roger-Ducasse: The Complete Piano Music

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