Dumay, Augustin
(1/17/1949)French-born Augustin Dumay received his training on the violin mostly within the Franco-Belgian tradition (studying with Charmy and later with Grumiaux), but also experienced something of the Russian (Stolyarsky–Auer) school from Milstein. This mixed heritage is borne out in his playing style which, despite his being dubbed ‘the legitimate heir to the royal Belgian line of [ … ] Ysaÿe, Dubois and Grumiaux’ by The Strad, is of the modern international persuasion rather than exemplifying any particular nationalist school. His career also illustrates clearly how the recordings industry is (and has been since its genesis) an essential partner for any aspiring musician; his two successive long-term contracts with EMI and Deutsche Grammophon each demonstrate a methodical programme of recordings spanning standard salon and concerto repertoire and, in the latter case, promotion of a very successful duo pairing with pianist Maria-João Pires and an award-winning trio with Pires and cellist Jian Wang. In live performance Dumay has appeared with many of the world’s top orchestras and conductors and at numerous festivals. He has also followed the re-emergent practice of directing ensembles from the violin, notably in a set of Mozart concertos with the Salzburg Camerata (1998) and visually documented in Gérard Corbiau’s 2011 film Augustin Dumay – laisser une trace dans le coeur.
Although the kind of national stylistic traits with which Dumay is credited have become generally less discernible over the post-war decades, there is still something sensuous in Dumay’s tone which is deep and lustrous. There is also an unmistakable bite in separate-bowed or détaché passages that is clearly a trademark of his style, and something that makes his Beethoven ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata (part of a much-anticipated release in 2002), for example, a characterful performance. His 1988 Lalo Concerto has a similarly clear-toned approach, although the slow movement is subject to a rather strident G-string tone and inconsistent vibrato (favouring certain notes in the phrase for apparently arbitrary artistic reasons). Mozart’s Sonata K. 301 (the first product, in 1991, of Dumay’s long association with Deutsche Grammophon and of his partnership with Pires) is a lively performance in the modern mould, with vibrant staccato in the second movement and a remarkably large tone, again expressed with an unusually powerful and wide vibrato, whilst Grieg’s Op. 45 (1993) is given a notably dramatic reading with some really beautiful pianism at the start of the slow movement by Maria-João Pires that illustrates the worth of the Dumay-Pires pairing.
The greater part of Dumay’s recording under contract with EMI and Deutsche Grammophon has been of standard works in the violin canon, but his playing in Petitgirard’s dark, introspective Le Légendaire (1996) is insightful and atmospheric, making it regrettable that he has not brought more of such relatively unfamiliar music to his audience. In many ways Dumay’s recordings suggest the work of an artist who is typical of his generation and who, perhaps, has been rather carefully ‘processed’ by big recording labels; he is distinguished, though, by his powerful sound and a certain strength of purpose in interpretation.
© Naxos Rights International Ltd. — David Patmore (A–Z of Conductors, Naxos 8.558087–90).
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Album Title | Label | Category/Categories | Catalogue No. |
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Alle 100 Goed: Mozart | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099992834255 |
BARTÓK, B.: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Concerto for Orchestra (Dumay, Montréal Symphony, Kent Nagano) | Onyx | Concerto; Orchestral | ONYX4138 |
BEETHOVEN, L. van: Beethoven 2020 Edition - Chamber Music, Vol. 1: Duos (Argerich, Ashkenazy, Casals, Dumay, Gallois, Hagen, Horszowski, Kempff) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Instrumental | 00028948376582 |
BEETHOVEN, L. van: Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 8 / BRAHMS, J.: String Sextet No. 1 (Dumay, Roussev, Silva, Chilemme, Demarquette, Pascal) | Onyx | Chamber Music; Concerto; Orchestral | ONYX4154 |
BEETHOVEN, L. van: Violin Sonatas (Complete) (Dumay, Pires) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028947149521 |
BEST OF DEBUSSY (THE) | Warner Classics | Ballet; Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal; Vocal Ensemble | 5054197932878 |
BRAHMS, J.: Chamber Music (Complete) (Leister, Dumay, Pires, Ferras, Barbizet, Rostropovich, R. Serkin, Demus, T. Vásáry) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028947903789 |
BRAHMS, J.: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2 (Dumay, Pires, Jian Wang) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028944705522 |
BRAHMS, J.: Serenade No. 1 / BEETHOVEN, L. van: Romance Nos. 1 and 2 (Dumay, Kansai Philharmonic) | Onyx | Concerto; Orchestral | ONYX4101 |
BRAHMS, J.: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Dumay, Pires) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028943580021 |
BRAHMS, J.: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (Dumay, Lortie) | Onyx | Chamber Music | ONYX4133 |
CAUSSÉ, Gérard: Viola Legend - The Erato Years | Erato | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral; Spoken Commentary; Vocal | 190295675509 |
Cinema les plus belles musiques classiques | Erato - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099902616353 |
Classical Goes to the Movies: 50 Blockbuster Hits | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099960278852 |
DEBUSSY, C.: Edition (Complete) - Vocal and Instrumental Music (Danco, Ewing, Ericourt, Maisky, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ansermet, Chailly) | Deutsche Grammophon | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 00028947900566 |
DVORAK, A.: Violin Concerto / Romance / 4 Romantic Pieces (Avanesyan, Shirinyan, Sinfonia Varsovia, Dumay) | Fuga Libera | Chamber Music; Concerto; Orchestral | FUG588 |
EQUAL MUSIC (AN) - Music from the Best-Selling Novel by Vikram Seth (Iwabuchi, Honore, R. Roberts, C. Howard, Pendlebury) | Decca | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral | 00028946694527 |
Essential Violin | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Orchestral | 5099990715457 |
FAURÉ, G.: Pavane / RAVEL, M.: Boléro / MASSENET, J.: Meditation (Argerich, Pahud, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Barenboim) | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099968776350 |
FAURÉ, G.: Piano Works / Chamber Music / Orchestral and Choral Works / Requiem (Collard, Plasson, Dumay, Lodéon, Parrenin Quartet) | Erato | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral | 190295558697 |
FOLLE JOURNÉE FÊTE SES 20 ANS (LA) | Mirare | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal; Vocal Ensemble | MIR236D |
FOLLE JOURNÉE (La) 2021 - BACH. J.S. / MOZART, W.A. (P. Pierlot, Pierre Hantaï, Avdeeva, Xiao-Mei Zhu, Queffélec) | Mirare | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral; Vocal | MIR566D |
FRANCK, C.: Chamber Music (Complete) (Blekh, Braley, Chenorkian, Cormann, Dumay, Egholm) | Fuga Libera | Chamber Music | FUG795 |
FRANCK, C.: Violin Sonata / Melancolie / STRAUSS, R.: Violin Sonata (Dumay, Lortie) | Onyx | Chamber Music | ONYX4096 |
GRIEG, E.: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (Dumay, Pires) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028943752527 |
HAYDN, J.: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / MOZART, W.A.: Symphony No. 29 (Vassiljeva, Wallonie Royal Chamber Orchestra, Dumay) | Mirare | Concerto; Orchestral | MIR220D |
LALO, É.: Symphonie espagnole / Violin Concerto (Dumay, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Plasson) | Erato | Concerto | 5054197492716 |
LALO, E.: Symphonie espagnole / Violin Sonata / Arlequin / Guitare (Boriso-Glebsky) | Fuga Libera | Chamber Music; Concerto | FUG594 |
Meilleur du classique par les meilleurs interpretes (Le) | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal; Vocal Ensemble | 5099997358053 |
MOZART FOR THE BRAIN | Decca | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral | 00028948209422 |
MOZART, W.A.: 50 Best (Allen, Tuckwell, Mutter, Zacharias, D. Barenboim, Laskine, Tate, Beecham, N. Marriner, Faerber, Welser-Möst, Muti) | Warner Classics | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral | 190295472993 |
MOZART, W.A.: 50 Masterworks Mozart (Dumay, Otter, Pires, English Concert, Vienna Philharmonic, Pinnock, K. Böhm) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 00028947951117 |
MOZART, W.A.: Best 100 | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 0094637089354 |
MOZART, W.A.: Duos (Complete) (Poulet, Steinberg, Perlman, Hahn, Mutter, Grumiaux, Dumay) | Decca | Chamber Music; Instrumental | 00028948317103 |
MOZART, W.A.: Early Masterpieces (Mozartstadt Salzburg) (Camerata Academica, Berlin Philharmonic, K. Böhm, Gardiner, Karajan) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Orchestral; Vocal | 00028947619055 |
MOZART, W.A.: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 3 / Divertimento, K. 254 (Dumay, Jian Wang, Pires) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028944920826 |
MOZART, W.A.: Trios (Complete) (Dumay, Jian Wang, Pires, Sillito, Leister, Mutter, Beaux Arts Trio, Grumiaux Trio) | Decca | Chamber Music | 00028948317110 |
MOZART, W.A.: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Sinfonia concertante, K. 364 / Rondo, K. 373 (Dumay, Hagen, Camerata Academica) | Deutsche Grammophon | Concerto | 00028945967523 |
MOZART, W.A.: Violin Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5, "Turkish" (Dumay, Camerata Academica) | Deutsche Grammophon | Concerto | 00028945764528 |
MOZART, W.A.: Violin Music (Dumay) | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Concerto | 0724357236850 |
MOZART, W.A.: Violin Sonatas Nos. 18, 21, 26, 27 (Dumay, Pires) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028943177122 |
PETITGIRARD: Cello Concerto / Le Legendaire / Dialogue | Naxos | Concerto; Orchestral | 8.557602 |
RAVEL, M.: Essentials (The) (Otter, New England Conservatory Chorus, Dumay, Melos Quartet, Argerich, M. Haas, Aimard, Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Boulez) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral; Vocal | 00028947972020 |
RAVEL, M.: Violin Sonatas / Piano Trio (Collard, Dumay, Lodéon) | Erato | Chamber Music | 190296361852 |
Romantic Violin Concertos | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Concerto | 5099950089956 |
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 1 / Cello Concerto No. 1 / La muse et le poete (Dumay, Gomziakov, Kansai Philharmonic) | Onyx | Concerto; Orchestral | ONYX4091 |
SCHUBERT, F.: Duo Sonata, D. 574 / Violin Sonatas (Sonatinas) Nos. 1 and 3 (Dumay, Rouvier) | Calliope | Chamber Music | CAL1603 |
SCHUBERT, F.: Piano Trios, D. 28, 897, 898 (Dumay, Lodéon, Collard) | Erato | Chamber Music | 190296375187 |
SCHUMANN, R.: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 / Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (Pires, Dumay, R. Capuçon, Caussé, Jian Wang, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Abbado) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Concerto | 00028946317921 |
TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Very Best of (The) | Erato - Parlophone | Ballet; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral | 0094635668155 |
The Greatest Classical Music Ever! 50 Best Classical Music in the Movies | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099962430050 |
The Greatest Classical Music Ever! Amadeus - 50 Best Mozart | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral | 5099962429351 |
TRIBUTE TO YSAŸE (A) (Boriso-Glebsky, R. Capuçon, G. Hoffman, Ivanov, Leong, Milstein, Liège Royal Philharmonic) | Fuga Libera | Chamber Music; Concerto; Instrumental; Orchestral | FUG758 |
Unforgettable Movie Classics: 50 Essential Classical Themes | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099970473957 |
Violin and Piano Music - FRANCK, C. / DEBUSSY, C. / RAVEL, M. (Pires, Dumay) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music | 00028944588026 |
Violin and Piano Recital: Dumay, Augustin / Collard, Jean-Philippe - DEBUSSY, C. / FRANCK, C. | Erato | Chamber Music | 5054197466984 |
Violin and Piano Recital: Dumay, Augustin / Collard, Jean-Philippe - LEKEU, G. / MAGNARD, A. / RAVEL, M. | Erato | Chamber Music | 5054197478208 |
Zen Classics | Erato - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099923486553 |
100 Best Adagios | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal; Vocal Ensemble | 5099921522857 |
100 Best Chillout Classics | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal; Wind Ensemble/Band Music | 5099943320653 |
100 Best Concertos (USA version) | Erato - Parlophone | Concerto; Orchestral | 5099926473956 |
100 Best Encores | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Instrumental; Opera; Operetta; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099926475257 |
100 Best Film Classics | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 0094639358656 |
100 Best Film Classics | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 0094637090053 |
100 BEST MOZART (Rampal, Tuckwell, Zimmermann, Mutter, Zacharias, D. Barenboim, Tate, Beecham, N. Marriner, Welser-Möst, Muti) | Warner Classics | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 190295476656 |
100 Best Violin | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Orchestral | 5099945852152 |
100 BEST VIOLIN (Accardo, Biondi, Blankestijn, Boult, Halstead, Y. Menuhin, D. Oistrakh, Pritchard, Warren-Green) | Warner Classics | Ballet; Chamber Music; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Orchestral | 190295475659 |
100 Mozart | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099909467156 |
100 MOZART | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 0094633038158 |
100 VIOLIN MASTERWORKS (Accardo, Batiashvili, Boni, Garrett, Goossens, Hope, Kremer, Levine, Milstein, Mintz, Mutter, Nemeth, Schneiderhan, Stern) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Orchestral | 00028947983248 |
100 x Klassik aus dem Kino | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099946491657 |
111 MORE CLASSIC TRACKS (Battle, Berger, Berganza, Carreras, Hampson, Zeman, Askenase, Argerich, D. Barenboim, Blechacz, C. Abbado, Ančerl, Stadlmair) | Deutsche Grammophon | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Operetta; Orchestral; Vocal | 00028947792352 |
50 Best Amadeus Mozart - Classical Music Pieces | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099995210650 |
50 Best Film | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Ballet; Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099963167351 |
50 BEST VIOLIN (Menuhin, Amoyal, Mutter, Tetzlaff, Kyung-Wha Chung, Kagan, Tetzlaff, Ferras, Suk, Sarah Chang, Vengerov, Kogan, Hoelscher, Spivakov) | Warner Classics | Chamber Music; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Orchestral | 190295455453 |
50 Mozart | Warner Classics - Parlophone | Chamber Music; Choral - Sacred; Concerto; Instrumental; Opera; Orchestral; Vocal | 5099909477353 |
50 VIOLIN MASTERWORKS (Accardo, Ammon, Argerich, D. Barenboim, Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, C. Abbado, C. von Dohnányi) | Deutsche Grammophon | Chamber Music; Concerto; Film and TV Music; Instrumental; Orchestral | 00028947983170 |