Dutilleux Correspondances
Salonen Esa Pekka
Dutilleux Correspondances
Salonen Esa Pekka
This remarkable album is released on the 97th birthday of a\ncomposer who has been working for more than seven decades and has\nhad a profound influence on classical music. Born in 1916 and best\nknown for his Violin Concerto, Henri Dutilleux continues the line\nof great masters of French music.
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The album is a tribute to the composer by his former composition\npupil, conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director\nLaureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Dutilleux’s Correspondances (2003), a song cycle for soprano and\norchestra, setting texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Prithwindra\nMukherjee, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vincent van Gogh, has never\nbeen recorded. The composer asked his former pupil to record the\nwork, while he could still attend the sessions – which he did –\nmaking this World Premiere recording a document of historical\nsignificance
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Joining the superb Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France is\nstar soloist, soprano Barbara Hannigan, today’s most highly\nregarded interpreter of 20th/21st century classical vocal music
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The album also includes new recordings of Tout un monde lointain\nfor Cello and Orchestra (1970) and the orchestral piece The Shadows\nof Time (1997).
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Review
Kate Rockstrom
Henri Dutilleux (pronouced ‘Du-ti-e’) is a singular composer. Born in 1916, his most recent work was premiered in 2009 when he was 93 years of age and as far as I am aware, he is still composing. The three works featured on this new album recorded by Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France are terrific examples of this long-lived and loved composer. The Correspondances of 2003 for soprano and orchestra are expressive and large. The Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1970) though is more contemplative and sparse in texture. The Shadows of Time (1997) are something else again, almost an amalgamation of the two previous works. This is an amazing contemporary music album that should not be missed. Even if you think you’re not a fan of contemporary music, at least give it a listen. It might surprise you.
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