Dutilleux - Geneviève Joy (1958) Sonate pour piano

Dédié au Vieux Mage !
Geneviève Joy est une pianiste française née le 4 octobre 1919 à Bernaville (Somme) et morte le 27 novembre 2009 à Paris.
Elle était l'épouse depuis le 17 septembre 1946 du compositeur Henri Dutilleux, dont elle a été longtemps l'interprète. Elle a formé avec sa collègue Jacqueline Robin (mariée au compositeur Paul Bonneau) un duo fameux qui laisse un grand nombre d'enregistrements considérés comme des références.
0:00 : Sonate pour piano: I. Allegro con moto
6:42 : II. Lied
12:42 : III. Choral et variations

[@dylanthomaswalter]

It seems I will never cease discovering wonderful new (to me, anyway) artists on here.
How did it turn out that youtube, a giant evil corporation and so on, has become such an unlikely avenue for the dissemination of decidedly non-commercial material? This piece is just a latest example of something rare and sublime which, were it not for this site's consolidated and indexed library of ALL KINDS of user uploads, I would never have had occasion to encounter.
Compared with the stifling narrowness and homogeneity of default mass culture (pre-ordained selections imposed by media conglomerates through broadcast, print, etc) this represents an unfathomable blessing of abundant alternatives, and a well-deserved second life for a veritable treasure trove of non-commercial music, film, interviews, footage and the like.
Regardless of their other merits, due to the simple economics of supply and demand, works such as this, deemed to be lacking in popular appeal (a self-fulfilling prophecy!) would be given severely limited distribution, if any, before going out of print and effectively disappearing into the "dust bin of history."
They have now been rescued from that tragic and unjust fate, but the credit probably belongs to the advent of digital media formats, which had the quite revolutionary consequence of liberating copies of works (music, video, writing, so on) from the physical medium, completely upending the economics of media distribution.
For a distributor as large and profitable as youtube, the additional cost of hosting non-commercial material in digital format is negligible (compared to keeping physical copies in circulation) but still... there's something quite novel about a massive, for-profit entity offering such a comprehensive array of non-crowd-pleasers, which although it must not hurt their bottom line doubt it helps much, either.
I continue to feel incredibly fortunate to have the means to discover so many interesting composers whose work would simply be out of reach to a previous generation. Not a bad consolation prize for those of us experiencing the twilight of human civilization... it's bittersweet.

[@birdlandbill7867]

c'est magnifique!

[@rossefrancois2]

Une sonate qui évolue dans son langage post-fauréen au début pour aller vers d'autres mondes dans son choral et variations. j'ai eu le bel honneur de croiser Henri Dutilleux à Tarbes pour une reprise des magnifiques "Mystères de l'Instant", en corollaire j'avais une création "Silberschlange" en hommage à Mozart et un Hommage à Ronsard d'Alain Louvier qui avait magnifiquement conduit tout le concert sur l'initiative de jean-Paul Salanne, directeur du lieu... j'ai eu le plaisir de revoir Henri Dutilleux près de Paris lors d'une répétition avec l'Ensemble 2e2m conduit par Paul Mefano...

[@beatricethiriet]

Quelle formidable pianiste

[@GerardvanReekum]

He wrote it for her and restsrted numbering his works with this one. This recording makes one realize why.

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

Wonderful music wonderfully performed.

[@miroslavmartinu7572]

Très très intéressante musique...

[@eduardogarcia1337]

Excelente interpretación. Increíble sonata.

[@mauriziochoi8244]

Great

[@nihilistlemon1995]

I know you love Marie Catherine Girod. But I am a simple guy , I like to listen to a harsher bass in the final haha .

[@brianhammer5107]

This piece was composed in 1947. Joy gave its first performance in 1948. (1958) = what, exactly?

[@johndipinto4084]

Maybe that's the year of this recording?

[@raoulcapablanca3340]

stay de la balle mortel!!

[@glipabazza9994]

Remarquable. Aussi étrange et puissant que Prokofiev.

[@josephmarcello7481]

The pianist year is better than the music... The composer is not interested in communicating but rather merely introspecting, a dangerous habit of over intellectual creators...

[@markdowding1371]

Really?

[@raouldegardefeu1310]

Pfff...

[@fabiofazmusica]

Its like those prefer cats over dogs as pets

[@firstnamelastname8850]

Thank you Joseph for those profound insights. And Bach is also vastly overrated, and some people, ignoring how grotesque they are, are brave enough to expose themselves to everlasting derision.

[@bobcinquino9937]

@@firstnamelastname8850 You have earned derision. Maybe not everlasting. There is always hope for you