The conductor and patron Paul Sacher influenced the course of twentieth – century music as did few other figures, and we owe a whole host of works by masters great and minor to his astute art of commissioning the right works at the right time. While Varess and Dutilleux, both represented on this wonderful collected works disc, owed much to him, the most famous artistic relationship was with Bartok, whose Divertimento for strings was composed at Sacher’s holiday house.
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