Gabriel Dupont: The Complete Songs

A Norman composer from the early 20th century and a little-known figure in French music, Gabriel Dupont was one of the last representatives of French post-romanticism, which died with him at the dawn of the Great War. With a remarkable sense of harmony and an undeniable talent for color, Dupont depicted fragments of life to evoke a sensation, a moment, an interior landscape. Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës capture his sensibility, rooted in the everyday life, in this complete recording, a new stage in their melodic odyssey, sublimating the art of a composer whose supreme refinement consists in being moved; by a wrinkle ("La Rencontre"), a perfume ("Crépuscule d'été", "Le Baiser") or a light ("Douceur du soir").