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Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain - Symphony No. 1 - Métaboles

4/19/2024, 14 Tracks, 1:18:31

Featuring

  • Gustavo Gimeno
  • Jean-Guihen Queyras
  • Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
  • Henri Dutilleux

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Compositional Technique

Dutilleux's music frequently employs 'croissance progressive' (progressive growth), where a motif is continually evolving rather than presented fully at once.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The cello used by Jean-Guihen Queyras on this recording is a Gioffredo Cappa from 1696, on loan from the corporate Foundation Société Générale C'est vous l'avenir.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Henri Dutilleux, the composer, lived for nearly a century (1916-2013) and made a significant contribution to French music despite a small catalogue of works.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Dutilleux's Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain…, is structured so that its five movements play continuously, reflecting the composer's belief that music loses its power to enchant with breaks.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain…, was commissioned by the renowned Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who transformed the cello repertoire by commissioning over 200 works.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The work Métaboles was commissioned by George Szell for the 40th anniversary of his Cleveland Orchestra.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dutilleux was primarily influenced not by musical role models, but by 19th-century poet Charles Baudelaire and painter Vincent van Gogh.

Source: Booklet

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