Emmanuelle Bertrand plays Dutilleux & Debussy

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I can't do better than quote the testimony of Henri Dutilleux himself, praising 'the transparency of Emmanuelle Bertrand's sound, her rhythmic strictness, her technical perfection, the brio of... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: HMC902209
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 47 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

January 2016

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Dutilleux: Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher pour violoncelle solo: I. Un poco indeciso

Work length3:28

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Dutilleux: Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher pour violoncelle solo: II. Andante sostenuto

Work length2:39

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Dutilleux: Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher pour violoncelle solo: III. Vivace

Work length2:47

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Debussy: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano en Ré Mineur, L. 135: I. Prologue. Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto

Work length4:10

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Debussy: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano en Ré Mineur, L. 135: II. Sérénade. Modérément animé

Work length3:07

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Debussy: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano en Ré Mineur, L. 135: III. Finale. Animé, léger et nerveux

Work length3:29

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Dutilleux: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre "Tout un monde lointain": I. Énigme

Work length6:29

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Dutilleux: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre "Tout un monde lointain": II. Regard

Work length7:41

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Dutilleux: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre "Tout un monde lointain": III. Houles

Work length4:23

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Dutilleux: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre "Tout un monde lointain": IV. Miroirs

Work length4:54

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Dutilleux: Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre "Tout un monde lointain": V. Hymne

Work length4:29

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Dutilleux, the centenary of whose birth we celebrate on 22 January 2016, made his appearance on earth just a few months before the premiere of one of Debussy’s final compositions: the Cello Sonata presented on this disc. 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. 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, the most sensitive composer of our time.

Written between 1967 and 1970 for Mstislav Rostropovich 'Tout un monde' is considered one of the most important 20th-century additions to the cello repertoire and several major cellists have recorded it. Despite the fact that the score does not state that it is a cello concerto, it has always been considered as such.

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January 2016

I can't do better than quote the testimony of Henri Dutilleux himself, praising 'the transparency of Emmanuelle Bertrand's sound, her rhythmic strictness, her technical perfection, the brio of her playing'. All of these qualities are displayed in abundance on this disc, every note not only in place but invested with profound feeling...A strong candidate for my Disc of 2015.

December 2015

Dutilleux was Bertrand's mentor, yet her fierce independence shines through ...Dutilleux's concerto was his response to the fleeting poetic images of Charles Baudelaire, and Bertrand's playing remains infused with an idea of his 'tout un monde lontain' - 'a whole distant world'...Bertrand achieves a giddying sense of balanced perspective against those delicately spiced flavours served up by James Gaffigan's Luzerner Sinfonieorchester/

3rd December 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.

Herald Scotland 16th December 2015

Gaffigan and the Lucerne orchestra tread that fine Dutilleux line between sensuality and refinement, and Emmanuelle Bertrand makes stunning sounds on her cello — now breathy, now deep and spicy. Also on the disc is a gleaming performance of Debussy’s Cello Sonata.

The Classical Reviewer 10th November 2015

Bertrand delivers some extraordinarily fine playing, capturing so many details and expressive moments, with moments of fine passion as well as virtuosic skill. ..Both the orchestra under James Gaffigan and Bertrand are spot on, demonstrating fine accuracy…These are very fine performances indeed. Given that the comparative recording of the concerto on my shelves is by Rostropovich himself, this is no mean accolade.

Classical Ear 16/03/2016

The contemplation is often spellbinding and evocative, which Emmanuelle Bertrand and James Gaffigan conjure magically, and the recording misses no detail … completed by Debussy’s wonderful Cello Sonata (with pianist Pascal Amoyel), an enjoyably capricious account

Emmanuelle Bertrand plays Dutilleux & Debussy

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