Dubois: Piano Concertos

The wonderful French pianist Cédric Tiberghien has made several admired recital and chamber recordings. Now he joins the impressive roster of pianists who have contributed to Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series with Volume 60: Théodore Dubois. Three works by this French composer are included here, and they present a captivating panorama of the evolution of Dubois’ style over some forty years: the Concerto-capriccioso of 1876 seems like a preliminary study in the style of such composers as Weber and Mendelssohn, whereas the highly Romantic Concerto in F minor (1897) is reminiscent of Saint-Saëns. The completely unknown Suite for piano and strings (1917), for its part, resembles a neoclassical pastiche.

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‘Appealing melodic invention and imaginative orchestration … the Concerto-capriccioso unfolds with a continuous plethora of ideas eagerly taken up by Cédric Tiberghien and the ever-alert A ...
‘Dubois' music—beautifully crafted, highly tuneful and harmonically daring—gains a new stature here in the mercurial hands of Cédric Tiberghien and Andrew Manze’ (The Observer)
‘Dubois composed continually, and thanks to this expertly played, recorded and presented Hyperion production, we can now hear what his piano music actually sounds like … Cédric Tiberghien's moder ...