Correspondances
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DUTILLEUX
Correspondances
Anssi Karttunen (cello) Barbara Hannigan (soprano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Esa-Pekka Salonen
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 28 January 2013
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
This remarkable album is released on the 97th birthday of a composer who has been working for more than seven decades and has had a profound influence on classical music. Born in 1916 and best known for his Violin Concerto, Henri Dutilleux continues the line of great masters of French music.
The album is a tribute to the composer by his former composition pupil, conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Dutilleux's Correspondances (2003), a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, setting texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Prithwindra Mukherjee, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vincent van Gogh, has never been recorded. The composer asked his former pupil to record the work, while he could still attend the sessions - which he did - making this World Premiere recording a document of historical significance
Joining the superb Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France is star soloist, soprano Barbara Hannigan, today's most highly regarded interpreter of 20th/21st century classical vocal music
The album also includes new recordings of Tout un monde lointain for Cello and Orchestra (1970) and the orchestral piece The Shadows of Time (1997).
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Contemporary
"Hannigan has made the music very much her own...a wonderful 97th birthday present for a musician who has patiently extended older French traditions of civility and high polish into an age of aesthetic meltdown." (Gramophone)
"Here is an oeuvre, not only of precise, masterly workmanship, but infused with emotional warmth and, beyond that, with profound passions, evidenced not least in Dutilleux's sympathy for the persecuted...Hannigan is simply superb - faultless pitching, crystal clear words, a shining tone and total empathy with the composer's message...Throughout, Salonen and the orchestra do the composer's music proud. Bravo to all for a quite exceptional disc." (BBC Music)
Tracks:
Correspondances for Soprano and Orchestra
Tout un monde lointain (Concerto for cello and orchestra)
The Shadows of Time
