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Impromptu 2

Yves Daoust

  • Year of composition: 1995
  • Duration: 16:19
  • Instrumentation: piano, synthetizer (Roland JV-80, Max/MSP sampler) and stereo fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Ymx média
  • Commission: SMCQ, with support from the CALQ
  • ISWC: T0703682443

Stereo

ISRC CAD500114360

  • 44,1 kHz, 16 bits

I completed this piece thanks to the help of Chopin who, for the occasion, loaned me his Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, opus 66 for piano. All the materials in my piece (aside from a brief allusion to Schumann) come from this work: the harmonic colours, the pitches, but also the agitation in the writing, the overly abundant energy, the tension. A sort of cry expressing the ‘tortures of the soul’ that continue to plague contemporary human beings, in spite of the myth of a liberating technology. We remain unabashed Romantics…

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Impromptu 2 premiered on January 30, 1996 by Manuel Schweizer, piano, and Anne Gaudemer, keyboard both from the Ensemble Grame, during the concert Live from Lyon produced by SMCQ at Salle Pierre-Mercure in Montréal. Impromptu 2 was commissioned by the SMCQ with support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).

Composition

Premiere

  • January 30, 1996, Manuel Schweizer, piano; Anne Gaudemer, keyboard • Live from Lyon, Salle Pierre-Mercure — Centre Pierre-Péladeau, Montréal (Québec)

About this sound recording

This performance of Impromptu 2 was performed by Jacques Drouin, piano, and Lorraine Vaillancourt, keyboard, recorded at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal by Jean Landry in December 2000, and mixed at the composer’s studio.

Performers

Recording

Mixing