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Ivan Hewett surveys recordings of music by Henri Dutilleux, a composer with a unique voice who took inspiration from the tradition of Ravel, Debussy and Roussel, but created a sound world of sensuous harmony and colour that was all his own.

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Dutilleux: Centenary Edition

DUTILLEUX: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2 'Le Double'; Le Loup; Metaboles; Timbres, espace, mouvement - La nuit etoilee; Mystere de l'instant; The Shadows of Time; Le Loup – fragments symphoniques; Tout un monde lointain (Concerto for cello and orchestra); Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher; L'Arbre des songes (Concerto for violin and orchestra); Sur le meme accord (nocturne); Sonnets (2) by Jean Cassou; San Francisco Night; Correspondances for Soprano and Orchestra; Le Temps l’horloge; Piano Sonata; Preludes (3); Figures de resonances; Tous les chemins ... menent a Rome; Bergerie; Blackbird; Resonances; Au gre des ondes; String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit'; Sonatine for flute & piano; Oboe Sonata; Sarabande et Cortege; Choral, Cadence et Fugato for trombone & piano; Les Citations

Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Jarvi (conductor), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Charles Munch (conductor), Orchestre du Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paul Bonneau, Orchestre National de France, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor), Collegium Musicum Zurich, Paul Sacher, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor), Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Pretre (conductor), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Serge Baudo (conductor), Truls Mork (cello), Renaud Capucon (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Henri Dutilleux (piano), Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Jerome Ducros (piano), Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Genevieve Joy (piano), Anne Queffelec (piano), Quatuor sine nomine, Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano), Marc Trenel (bassoon), Pascal Godart (piano), Daniel Breszynski (trombone), Maurice Bourgue, Hughette Dreyfus, Bernard Cazauran, Bernard Balet

ERATO 2564604798 (7CD Budget)

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