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Belcea Quartet - Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: String Quartets (2001)

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Belcea Quartet - Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: String Quartets (2001)

Belcea Quartet - Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel: String Quartets (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 288 Mb | Total time: 71:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 74020 2 | Recorded: 2000

This Debut CD confirms the impression I’d formed from broadcasts of a highly talented, exceptionally well-integrated ensemble. Their excellent balance is highlighted by crystal-clear recording. The opening of the Debussy, brisk and forceful yet with plenty of variety and meticulous in observing the composer’s directions, immediately inspires confidence. After a while, though, I started to wonder whether the playing was a bit too careful and controlled; the Vertavo Quartet, not quite as slick and with more soft-edged recorded sound, give a much more spontaneous effect, with delightful and very idiomatic touches of rubato. Similarly in the Ravel, the Belcea performance brings out all the subtleties of texture and timbre, the fascinating cross-rhythms, the sweetly nostalgic emotional tone.

Arcanto Quartett - Claude Debussy, Henri Dutilleux, Maurice Ravel: String Quartets (2010)

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Arcanto Quartett - Claude Debussy, Henri Dutilleux, Maurice Ravel: String Quartets (2010)

Arcanto Quartett - Claude Debussy, Henri Dutilleux, Maurice Ravel: Quatuors À Cordes (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 310 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 174 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Chamber | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902067 | Time: 01:11:17

In addition to the traditional pairing of the Debussy and Ravel string quartets, the Arcanto Quartett performs Henri Dutilleux's Ainsi la Nuit (1971-1976), a grouping that is becoming increasingly popular on recordings. These are absolutely secure, thoughtful, self-effacing readings of the Debussy and the Ravel. While the quartet doesn't bring particular new revelations to the pieces, the members play with nuanced sensitivity and impeccable musicianship. The haunted quiet they achieve in the first part of the third movement of the Debussy is especially impressive, as is the clarity of their sense of direction and unity in the final movement, the most difficult of the four to pull off. Similarly in the Ravel, the contrast between the serenity of the third movement and the raw athleticism of the fourth is attention-grabbing and invigorating.

Pascal Rophe - Henri Dutilleux: Le Loup; Trois Sonnets; La Fille du Diable; Quatre Melodies; Trois Tableaux (2015)

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Pascal Rophe - Henri Dutilleux: Le Loup; Trois Sonnets; La Fille du Diable; Quatre Melodies; Trois Tableaux (2015)

Henri Dutilleux: Le Loup; Trois Sonnets; La Fille du Diable; Quatre Mélodies; Trois Tableaux (2015)
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Pascal Rophé, conductor; Vincent Le Texier, baritone

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 312 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 174 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-1651 | Time: 01:14:20

The name of Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) is associated above all with orchestral music. His international reputation originated with the Second Symphony, ‘Le Double’ (premièred in 1959) and was confirmed by works such as Métaboles and the cello concerto Tout un monde lointain… But what about before that? In the centennial year of the composer's birth, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé present a programme which focusses on works composed before 1954, and offers the opportunity to discover a less familiar but by no means negligible side of Dutilleux's creative activity: songs and music for the theatre and film. Several of the works on this disc are recorded for the first time in these versions, or indeed at all. Performed by the French baritone Vincent Le Texier, Éloignez-vous – one of the Cassou settings – and Quatre Mélodies appear for the first time on disc in the version for orchestra. The complete score of the ballet Le Loup only exists in a recording made in 1954, while the Trois Tableaux symphoniques – originally composed as incidental music for a stage adaptation of Wuthering Heights – and the extracts from the film score La Fille du Diable are here made available on CD for the first time.

Patrick Gallois, Lydia Wong - French Flute Music: Poulenc, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Jolivet, Boulez, Sancan (2005)

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Patrick Gallois, Lydia Wong - French Flute Music: Poulenc, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Jolivet, Boulez, Sancan (2005)

French Flute Music: Poulenc, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Jolivet, Boulez, Sancan (2005)
Patrick Gallois, flute; Lydia Wong, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 214 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 137 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557328 | Time: 00:59:33

Since the end of the seventeenth century French composers have shown a particular skill and deftness of touch in writing for the flute. The instrument owes much of its prominence in French music of the twentieth century to the use made of it in orchestral colouring by composers such as Debussy and Ravel, as well as to a group of highly gifted players associated in one way or another with the Paris Conservatoire. They include the soloist on this recording, Patrick Gallois, a pupil of Jean-Pierre Rampal. This collection of works composed during the last sixty years ranges from Poulenc’s Sonata, marked by rhythmic vitality and a delicate vein of sentimentality, Messiaen’s Le merle noir, inspired by bird song, to Boulez’s Sonatine, which the composer himself has characterised as ‘organised delirium’.

Semyon Bychkov, Orchestre de Paris - Dutilleux: Symphonie No. 2, Métaboles, Timbres, Espace, Mouvement (1994)

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Semyon Bychkov, Orchestre de Paris - Dutilleux: Symphonie No. 2, Métaboles, Timbres, Espace, Mouvement (1994)

Semyon Bychkov, Orchestre de Paris - Dutilleux: Symphonie No. 2, Métaboles, Timbres, Espace, Mouvement (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 63:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 438 008-2 | Recorded: 1990

This disc offers a trio of orchestral works by Dutilleux which are not otherwise available together, and it scores highly for including the first recording of the 1991 revision of Timbres, espace, mouvement (1978).

Pierre Amoyal, Lynn Harrell, Charles Dutoit, Orchestre National de France - Henri Dutilleux: Violin & Cello Concertos (1995)

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Pierre Amoyal, Lynn Harrell, Charles Dutoit, Orchestre National de France - Henri Dutilleux: Violin & Cello Concertos (1995)

Pierre Amoyal, Lynn Harrell, Charles Dutoit, Orchestre National de France - Henri Dutilleux: Violin & Cello Concertos (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 201 Mb | Total time: 51:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 444 398-2 | Recorded: 1993

French modern composer Henri. Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France, was active in the second half of the twentieth century. The work combines the styles of Ravel, Debussy and Albert Roussel, as well as the style of his own creation. In addition to being influenced by Impressionist music, he also used serialism and atonality to write.

Kathryn Stott - Solitaires: Piano Works by Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, Henri Dutilleux (2015)

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Kathryn Stott - Solitaires: Piano Works by Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, Henri Dutilleux (2015)

Kathryn Stott - Solitaires: Piano Works by Ravel, Messiaen, Alain, Dutilleux (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 230 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2148 | Time: 01:08:37

A solitaire in French is a single mounted jewel, a concept that seems less than apt for the rather hefty works recorded here by British pianist Kathryn Stott. But this fine recital holds together in another way: Ravel, who so often provides the temporal endpoint for traditional piano recitals, is here, to a greater or lesser extent, the launching point for the other three composers featured. Stott's reading of the neoclassical Le Tombeau de Couperin is beautifully precise and balanced, catching the economy of this Baroque-style suite to the hilt. That economy carries over into the later works, even the rarely performed Piano Sonata of Henri Dutilleux, a work that deftly fuses Ravel's sense of classical forms with a largely dissonant language. The opening Prelude and Fugue of Jehan Alain, actually two separate works that are reasonably enough combined here, is another seldom-played piece that makes an arresting curtain-raiser, and the final "Le baiser de l'Enfant Jésus" of Messiaen, part of the giant Vingt regards sur l'Enfant Jésus, is the splendid climax of the whole, its spiritual, dreamlike ascent at the end superbly controlled. Better still is the sound, recorded at Hallé St. Peters in Manchester: it creates a hypnotic effect all its own.

Soloists of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Henri Dutilleux: Chamber Music with Piano (2014) [Re-Up]

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Soloists of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Henri Dutilleux: Chamber Music with Piano (2014) [Re-Up]

Henri Dutilleux: Chamber Music with Piano (2014)
Akanè Makita, piano; Andrea Oliva, flute; Francesco Di Rosa, oboe; Francesco Bossone, bassoon

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 170 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 125 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94738 | Time: 00:52:22

The death of Henri Dutilleux on 22 May 2013 robbed the musical world of one of its most distinctive voices. Dutilleux was renowned for his exquisite craftsmanship and feel for instrumental colour, as well as for an extraordinary generosity of spirit that was invariably reflected in his music. Indeed, pianist Akanè Makita describes Dutilleux as a 'generous, sensitive man' who, when the artists involved in this recording wrote to him to tell him about the project, replied to say how 'greatly touched' and 'moved' he was. This warm and unexpected response from such an eminent composer inspired the musicians to put their all into the recording; the fact that it was completed on the day of Dutilleux's death makes it all the more fitting a tribute to him. The chamber works featured on this disc demonstrate Dutilleux's superb command of instrumental timbre – as flautist Andrea Oliva says, 'Dutilleux is brilliant at custom-designing the music to suit the specific characteristics of each instrument'. These are highly demanding pieces that exploit the possibilities of the instruments to the full – all can be considered milestones in the repertoire of their respective instruments.

Johannes Moser, Thomas Søndergård, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Lutosławski, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos (2018)

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Johannes Moser, Thomas Søndergård, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Lutosławski, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos (2018)

Johannes Moser, Thomas Søndergård, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Lutosławski, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 53:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC5186689 | Recorded: 2017, 2018

This album features cello concertos by Witold LutosIawski and Henri Dutilleux performed by the multiple prize-winning German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Thomas Sondergard. These works, premiered in 1970, are two of the biggest gems of the twentieth century, the golden age of the cello. While equally virtuosic and engaging, both pieces showcase different aspects of the musical landscape of the late twentieth century.