Dutilleux: Métaboles, L'arbre des songes & Symphony No. 2 "Le double"

Featuring

Ludovic Morlot
Augustin Hadelich
Seattle Symphony
Henri Dutilleux

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Performer Biography

Augustin Hadelich, the violinist on this recording, plays on the 1723 'Ex Kiesewetter' Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Composition History

Dutilleux composed his Symphony No. 2, Le double, for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to commemorate its 75th anniversary, aiming to create a new kind of symphony.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Henri Dutilleux, the composer, developed a refined compositional style where aural color and texture were as essential as dramatic gestures or thematic development.

Compositional Technique

In Métaboles, a musical idea metamorphoses into something new during each movement, and this transformed shape then becomes the starting point for the next movement.

Compositional Technique

In Symphony No. 2, Le double, Dutilleux uses an unusual orchestral deployment, creating a smaller group of twelve instruments that sometimes plays alone or as a featured contingent within the full orchestra.

Compositional Technique

Dutilleux's Violin Concerto, L'arbre des songes ('Tree of Dreams'), adopts a novel concerto form, connecting its four movements with three interludes.

Compositional Technique

Dutilleux's Métaboles, meaning 'changeable' in Greek, is inspired by the continual flux and transfiguration integral to organic life, unfolding in five connected movements.