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Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1

Benjamin Richardson (boy soprano), Kepler Swanson (boy soprano), Andrew Torgelson (boy soprano), Xavier Phillips (cello)

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot

Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1
The technical standard of the playing is extremely high. The orchestral negotiates the perils of Dutilleux's scherzo with apparent sangfroid, and at the speed indicated.

Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1

Benjamin Richardson (boy soprano), Kepler Swanson (boy soprano), Andrew Torgelson (boy soprano), Xavier Phillips (cello)

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot

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The technical standard of the playing is extremely high. The orchestral negotiates the perils of Dutilleux's scherzo with apparent sangfroid, and at the speed indicated.

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Drawing on Ludovic Morlot’s personal relationship with the great French composer, this disc opens with a virtuosic and sensuous performance of Symphony No. 1 and closes with a live concert recording of Dutilleux’s late masterpiece, The Shadows of Time. The disc also includes the cello concerto Tout un monde lointain with French cellist Xavier Phillips, of whom the composer remarked, “[He] fully owns this work and evokes the very essence of its title — all a distant world.”

With naturalistic imaging, depth of field and dynamic range, these recordings have been engineered to audiophile standards and aim to capture as realistically as possible the sound of the orchestra performing on the Benaroya Hall stage. Digital content will be available in: stereo, 96k 24-bit high resolution, and 5.1 surround sound.

Contents and tracklist

I. Passacaglia
Track length6:51
II. Scherzo molto vivace
Track length5:53
III. Intermezzo
Track length6:12
IV. Finale, con variazioni
Track length11:38
I. Énigme
Track length6:26
II. Regard
Track length6:20
III. Houles
Track length4:18
IV. Miroirs
Track length4:57
V. Hymne
Track length4:32
I. Les heures
Track length3:16
II. Ariel maléfique
Track length2:25
III. Mémoire des ombres
Track length4:52
Interlude
Track length2:14
IV. Vagues de lumière
Track length3:05
V. Dominante bleue?
Track length5:21

Awards and reviews

November 2014

The technical standard of the playing is extremely high. The orchestral negotiates the perils of Dutilleux's scherzo with apparent sangfroid, and at the speed indicated.

5th July 2014

Light, flux and precision are key components in the ultra-refined aesthetic of Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), whom Morlot, the Seattle Symphony’s music director, knew personally. They are unmistakable in this attractive conspectus of the French composer’s symphonic world.

10th August 2014

It’s hard to think of a finer calling card for the Seattle Symphony and Morlot than these radiantly rich accounts of three signal works by Morlot’s French compatriot.
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