Dutilleux: Complete Music for Piano Solo

Quartararo, Vittoria

PCL 10167

Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) was a French composer whose relatively small body of published works garnered wide international acclaim. As a composer he followed in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel and Olivier Messiaen, but he developed and maintained a highly personal, unique style, characterized by exquisite craftmanship and a feel for instrumental colors and sonorities.

This new recording presents Dutilleux’ complete works for piano solo. Between the two pillars of the Piano Sonata and “Trois Préludes” there are a number of miniatures, reflecting the development of his style during his long lifetime.

Vittoria Quartararo received her piano training at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Valentina Pagni and Andrea Lucchesini and continued her musical studies in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Jacob Leuschner, Claudio Martínez-Mehner as well as David Smeyers in contemporary music performance. Other significant influences in her musical development include Ewa Kupiec, Alexander Lonquich and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. In addition to her accomplished piano studies, she also holds a Master's degree in Musicology, obtained at the University of Florence.

In her solo projects she likes to encompass a wide spectrum of musical works, presenting communicative performances of repertoires, combining the old with the new.

She has worked closely with renowned composers such as Heinz Holliger and Johannes Schöllhorn, and she has given first performances of works by Georg Katzer, Atli Ingólfsson, Daniel Cueto and Antonio Covello among others.

CD x 1

Piano Classics

2021-11-02

5029365101677