FRENCH PIANIST LUCETTE DESCAVES (1906-1993) 2 CDR

Description: LUCETTE DESCAVES (PARIS, FRANCE, 1 APRIL, 1906 – BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FRANCE, 15 APRIL, 1993) She was a French pianist and teacher, whose pupils included Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Geneviève Joy, Brigitte Engerer, Pascal Rogé, and Katia and Marielle Labèque. Born in Paris, daughter of the police commissioner Eugène Descaves (brother of the writer Lucien Descaves) and goddaughter of Camille Saint-Saëns, Lucette Descaves studied piano, encouraged by her mother. She entered the Paris Conservatoire while Gabriel Fauré was the director, in the class of Marguerite Long. Having won first prize for piano in 1923, she was herself put in charge of Long’s preparatory class (during the Second World War, she taught the young student Michel Legrand, who in 1988 asked her to appear in his autobiographical film Cinq Jours en Juin). Subsequently, she became Yves Nat’s teaching assistant. Lucette Descaves was regarded by Marguerite Long as her spiritual heir. In 1941, Descaves was made a piano professor at the Conservatoire. As a pianist, she has premiered works by Jolivet (ritual dances, 1942 Concerto for piano, 1951) and Rivier (Concerto for Piano, 1954). Until her retirement from the Conservatoire in 1976, she taught several outstanding pianists, including Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Geneviève Joy, Brigitte Engerer, Pascal Rogé, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Géry Moutier and Georges Pludermacher. Upon retirement of the Conservatory, she continued her teaching at the Rueil-Malmaison conservatory, directed by one of her former students, Jacques Taddei. See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Lucette Descaves. She also had a career as a concert soloist, performing under conductors such as Philippe Gaubert, Charles Münch and Andre Cluytens. She performed and premiered much contemporary music, most notably works by André Jolivet (Cinq danses rituelles, the Piano Concerto) and Jean Rivier. She also performed works by Gabriel Pierné and Bohuslav Martinů, and performed Sergei Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto before the composer on 25 October 1931 at the Concerts Poulet. She was first married to the conductor and pianist Georges Truc (died 1941), artistic director of Pathé-Marconi France; she then married the conductor Louis Fourestier. She died aged 87 in Boulogne-Billancourt. TRACKLIST Conte à la poupée (Roussel)Des heures passent, Op. 1 Champêtres (Roussel)Des heures passent, Op. 1 Graves, légères (Roussel)Des heures passent, Op. 1 Joyeuses (Roussel)Des heures passent, Op. 1 Tragiques (Roussel)Doute (Roussel)L’accueil des Muses, in memoriam Claude DebussyLe tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 No. 1, Prélude (Ravel)Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 No. 2, Fugue (Ravel)Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 No. 3, Forlane (Ravel)Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 No. 4, Rigaudon (Ravel)Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 No. 5, Menuet (Ravel)Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 No. 6, Toccata (Ravel)Petit canon perpétuel (Roussel)Piano Suite, Op. 14 Bourrée (Roussel)Piano Suite, Op. 14 Prélude (Roussel)Piano Suite, Op. 14 Ronde (Roussel)Piano Suite, Op. 14 Sicilienne (Roussel)Prelude and Fugue, Op. 46 Fugue (Roussel)Prelude and Fugue, Op. 46 Prelude (Roussel)Rustiques, Op. 5 No. 1, Danse au bord de l’eau (Roussel)Rustiques, Op. 5 No. 2, Promenade sentimentale en forêt (Roussel)Rustiques, Op. 5 No. 3, Retour de fête (Roussel)Sonatine, Op. 16 I. Modéré (Roussel)Sonatine, Op. 16 II. Très lent (Roussel)Three Piano Pieces, Op. 49 No. 1, Allegro con brio (Roussel)Three Piano Pieces, Op. 49 No. 2, Allegro grazioso. Tempo di valzer (Roussel)Three Piano Pieces, Op. 49 No. 3, Allegro con spirito (Roussel)Trio pour piano in A Minor, M. 67 I. Modéré (Ravel) Etienne Pasquier (cello), Jean Pasquier (violin)Trio pour piano in A Minor, M. 67 II. Pantoum. Assez vite (Ravel) Etienne Pasquier (cello), Jean Pasquier (violin)Trio pour piano in A Minor, M. 67 III. Passacaille. Très large (Ravel) Etienne Pasquier (cello), Jean Pasquier (violin)Trio pour piano in A Minor, M. 67 IV. Final. Animé (Ravel) Etienne Pasquier (cello), Jean Pasquier (violin)Violin Sonata I. Largement, souple et sans lenteur – Très large (Del Vincourt) Maurice Crut (viola)Violin Sonata II. Vif et gai (Del Vincourt) Maurice Crut (viola)Violin Sonata III. Calme, mystérieux et lointain – Animé avec une impétuosité joyeuse (Del Vincourt) Maurice Crut (viola)

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