Composer: Pascal Dusapin, Henri Dutilleux
Performer: Victor Julien-Laferrière
Orchestra: Orchestre National de France
Conductor: David Robertson, Kristiina Poska
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA886
Release: 2023
Size: 538 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain (Concerto for cello and orchestra)
01. I. Énigme
02. II. Regard
03. III. Houles
04. IV. Miroirs
05. V. Hymne
06. Dusapin: Outscape
Victor Julien-Laferrière, winner in 2017 of the first Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium dedicated to the cello, presents here two French works for cello and orchestra: Outscape by Pascal Dusapin: “The title itself carries the musical project (…) a word rich in meaning that indicates a variety of meanings from the most common to the most philosophical. “Outscape” is the way or opportunity to escape, to invent a path of one’s own. I liked this word because it is basically like a summary of the history of my work.” Alongside this work composed in 2015 and here recorded in its world premiere (conducted by Kristiina Poska), the French cellist, the Orchestre National de France, this time conducted by David Robertson, celebrate Henri Dutilleux (who died just 10 years ago, on 22 May 2013), with his famous concerto, whose title is taken from a poem in Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal, La Chevelure: ” A whole far-away world, absent, almost defunct”…