The seattle symphony intends to record the complete orchestral works of dutilleux on their new label and they begin here with his symphony no. Composition actually started late in the sixties, when the commission. As dutilleux told stuart jeffries in these pages a decade or so ago when a mere whippersnapper of 86. The idea of a cello concerto was originally suggested by igor markevitch in about 1960. Quatre mots dun vers repris aussi par henri dutilleux pour nommer son concerto pour violoncelle. Nach dem musikstudium am pariser konservatorium 1933 bis 1938 arbeitete er. A guide to henri dutilleuxs music music the guardian. Dutilleux s rapturous cello concerto written for mstislav rostropovich, is the highlight on this sensuous, stunningly performed disc.
Those who commissioned works from dutilleux included charles munch symphony no. Henri dutilleux is the author of a small but highly concentrated corpus of works. It is considered one of the most important 20thcentury additions to the cello repertoire and several major cellists have recorded it. Dutilleux orchestral works dutilleux correspondances. Dutilleux began to work on baudelaires poetry on roland petits advice. The poetry of charles baudelaire inspired it, albeit loosely. Emmanuelle bertrand, james gaffigan, pascal amoyel avaxhome. Each of the five movements was inspired by the poetry of charles baudelaire, a. Although it is one of the most significant concertante works for cello and orchestra to have. Harmonia mundi hmc 902209 henri dutilleuxs work has been gaining attention through a number of significant recent recordings. Henri dutilleux 191620 was the outstanding french composer of recent decades, despite produced barely a dozen major compositions in a sixplus decade career.
Dutilleux, lutoslawski cello concertos rostropovich cc. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of maurice ravel, claude debussy, albert roussel and olivier messiaen, but in an idiosyncratic style. The piece brings out rostropovichs greatest qualities. Dutilleux never accepted any of the dogmas of the avantgarde, above all, what boulez called at one stage the necessity of serialism, a systemisation thats anathema to dutilleuxs creative sensibilities. Mstislav rostropovich commissioned this cello concerto.
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