Dutilleux: Correspondences / Barbara Hannigan; Anssi Karttunen

Dutilleux: Correspondences / Barbara Hannigan; Anssi Karttunen - Deutsche Grammoph

Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog No: DGG B001794402
Format: CD
Release Date: 2013-01-22
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 7 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 028947911807

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Notes & Reviews:

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 Correspondences (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, 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 (1970J) and the orchestral piece The Shadows of Time (1997).

Deutsche Grammophon recently released an album of Esa-Pekka Salonen's own compositions, including his violin Concerto (2009) and Nyx (2010).

Sunday Times, 10th February 2013
Salonen does these three masterpieces (1997's The Shadows of Time and the 1970 cello concerto Tout un monde lointain are the others) magnificent justice. In the 2003 title work, a close engagement with texts (by Rilke et al) is formidably reflected in Barbara Hannigan's soprano singing.

The Observer, 10th February 2013
It acquires - literally - added depth in this beautiful reading by the Grammy-winning British bass Matthew Rose, who sings it mostly a fourth lower than its original key. Schubert himself called them "terrifying" songs and confessed to his own emotional exhaustion at having written them. Rose and Matthewman, while in full, expressive form, convey that sense of being utterly wrung out.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Alfortville, France (09/2012); Opéra Bastille, salle Liebermann, Paris, France (09/2012); Alfortville, France (12/2011); Opéra Bastille, salle Liebermann, Paris, France (12/2011).



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>Dutilleux, Henri : Correspondances, for soprano & orchestra
  • Performer: Barbara Hannigan (Soprano)
  • Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ensemble: Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France
  • Running Time: 17 min. 39 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 2003

>Dutilleux, Henri : Tout un monde lointain. . ., concerto for cello & orchestra
  • Performer: Anssi Karttunen (Cello)
  • Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Running Time: 26 min. 29 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1967-1970

>Dutilleux, Henri : The Shadows of Time, for 3 children's voices & orchestra
  • Performers: Basile Buffin (Voice); Alexandre Selvestrel (Voice); Armand Sztykgold (Voice)
  • Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Running Time: 20 min. 47 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1995-1997