His teaching work was extensive: he became a composition professor at the École Normale Supérieure in 1961, then at the Conservatoire supérieur de Paris from 1970 to 1984. This highly enriching experience allowed him to rub shoulders with all artistic movements.ĭutilleux was internationally renowned both as a composer and as a teacher. In 1942 he was appointed as choir conductor of the Paris Opera, and in 1945 became head of musical illustrations for Radio France, a position he held until 1963. He graduated with highest honors in harmony, counterpoint, and fugue, and received the Grand Prix de Rome in 1938 with his cantata L’anneau du Roi.ĭuring this period he studied Vincent d’Indy’s treatise on music and discovered Stravinsky, Bartók, and serialism, but always remained at the margins of these different aesthetic worlds. The disc opens with Dutilleux s mystical little solo Strophes and contains a gleaming performance of Debussy s Cello Sonata from Bertrand and pianist Pascal Amoyel.A French composer born in 1916 in Angers, Henri Dutilleux enrolled in the Conservatoire de Paris in 1933, studying counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon, orchestra conducting with Philippe Gaubert, composition with Henri Busser, and music history with Maurice Emmanuel.
Bruce Reader The Classical Reviewer, 17th November 2015 **** 'James Gaffigan and the Lucerne orchestra tread that tricky line in Dutilleux between sensuous imagery and intense technical refinement, while Emmanuelle Bertrand makes stunning sounds on her cello now breathy and exquisite, now deep and spicy. Given that the comparative recording of the concerto on my shelves is by Rostropovich himself, this is no mean accolade. Both the orchestra under James Gaffigan and Bertrand are spot on, demonstrating fine accuracy … These are very fine performances indeed. Dutilleux brings some fine colours and textures to his score before it rises in drama, often with a fine dialogue between soloist and orchestra. Reviewīertrand delivers some extraordinarily fine playing, capturing so many details and expressive moments, with moments of fine passion as well as virtuosic skill.
Alongside a new recording of the famous 'Strophes sur le nom de Sacher', Emmanuelle Bertrand joins with her partners in the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester to pay an eagerly awaited tribute to the distant world hymned by the poems of Baudelaire and sublimely echoed by Dutilleux, one of the most sensitive composers of our time. The filiation is a natural one, for at an early age fate placed Dutilleux under the auspices of the composer of 'Pelléas' and in the vicinity of the cello, which his brother played. Dutilleux, the centenary of whose birth we celebrate on 22 January 2016, was born just a few months before the premiere of one of Debussy s final compositions: the Cello Sonata presented on this disc.
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