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Paul Paray: Éclaircie, #2 from 'Impressions' (1912)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

My first encounter with the French composer and conductor Paul Paray (1886-1979) was a colour photo on the glossy cover of a Readers' Digest record library LP on my grandmother's stereogram in the 1960s.  Little did I realize what an amazing career he had - winning the Prix de Rome way back in 1911.  He made a big conducting career much later in the USA, but his compositions are largely forgotten.  This piece - from a set of three impressions - is in quite a modernist idiom for 1912.  The title is really hard to translate succinctly into English, but roughly indicates a sudden ray of sunlight through a break in the clouds.  The dedicatee of the set is Mlle. H. Cahen.  I believe that this was the young Thérèse Henriette Cahen (1897-1944) who studied piano at the Schola Cantorum, and, years later, died in Auschwitz.

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Paul Paray: Éclaircie, #2 from 'Impressions' (1912)

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