Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux - The Centenary Edition (2015) {7CD Box Set Erato-Warner Classics}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical / Chamber Music / Symphony / Orchestral Works / Piano / Violin

Assembled to mark the centenary of Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), this collection of recordings, produced over a period of nearly 60 years, is unrivalled in its scope. Equally remarkable is its array of performers; among them are such dedicatees of the composer’s works as Mstislav Rostropovich, Renée Fleming, Seiji Ozawa and Paul Sacher. Quintessentially French, Dutilleux captured the imagination of audiences around the world with his iridescent, yet formally coherent scores, which engender narratives filled with memories and mystery.

Henri Dutilleux, born in 1916, is a 96 years old young man who has made his own way in the jungle of the musical world of the second half of the 20th Century, ignoring the trends, continuing in his own perspective the path of French modern music opened by Debussy and Ravel. This 5-CD collection is a wonderful panorama, ideal to discover and love this music, featuring for the first time on CD a wonderful performance of the 1st Symphony by the Orchestre National de Lille and Jean-Claude Casadesus as well as the original recording of Le Loup, one of the most important ballets written after 1945, both recorded in the presence of the composer.

Henri Dutilleux's "Ainsi la nuit" (1976) is a modern classic, and it's easy to see why. This is a work that parodoxically combines impressionist lushness and total transparency, surface attractiveness and deep mystery. Ravel meets Bartok? The work is in seven movements, which each have their own particular concern, though there are "parenthetical" moments that interlink the entire piece. "Nocturne 1" is a mysterious static soundscape periodically fractured by outbursts………

Christopher Culver @ amazon.com

Henri Dutilleux's work has been gaining attention through a number of significant recent recordings. Esa-Pekka Salonen recorded his Correspondances with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Ludovic Morlot has recorded both his symphonies, as well as other works, as the new conductor of the Seattle Symphony. This opportunity to experience and appraise his work casts him as among the most significant French composers of the late twentieth century.

Henri Dutilleux's work has been gaining attention through a number of significant recent recordings. Esa-Pekka Salonen recorded his Correspondances with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Ludovic Morlot has recorded both his symphonies, as well as other works, as the new conductor of the Seattle Symphony. This opportunity to experience and appraise his work casts him as among the most significant French composers of the late twentieth century.