Henri Dutilleux: D’ombre et de silence

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Levin fully understands the whole work's structure and his fingers to all that could be asked of them. He is alive, too, to the poetry of the atmospheric pieces and, with Ya-Fei Chuang, gives... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd May 2010
Catalogue No: 4763653
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 74 minutes

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Dutilleux: Petit air à dormir debout

Work length1:33

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: Piano Sonata

Work length24:22

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

I. Allegro con moto

Track length7:40

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II. Lied

Track length6:07

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III. Choral et variations

Track length10:35

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Dutilleux: Prélude en berceuse

Work length3:36

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: Improvisation

Work length1:31

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: Les Contemporains / Series 2

Work length1:31

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Blackbird

Track length1:31

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Dutilleux: Tous les chemins ... mènent à Rome

Work length1:32

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: Résonances

Work length2:10

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: Figures de résonances

Work length8:27

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Robert Levin (piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Figures de résonances I

Track length1:42

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Figures de résonances II

Track length1:46

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Figures de résonances III

Track length2:33

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Figures de résonances IV

Track length2:26

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Dutilleux: Mini-prélude en eventail

Work length0:43

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: 3. Préludes pour piano

Work length14:31

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

I. D'ombre et de silence

Track length3:42

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II. Sur un même accord

Track length3:37

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III. Le jeu des contraires

Track length7:12

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Dutilleux: Bergerie

Work length1:06

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Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

Dutilleux: Au gré des ondes

Work length12:58

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$9.00

Robert Levin (piano)
Recorded: 2008-12-22
Recording Venue: Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano

I. Prélude en berceuse

Track length3:36

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II. Claquettes

Track length1:08

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III. Improvisation

Track length1:32

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IV. Mouvement perpetuel

Track length1:54

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V. Hommage à Bach

Track length3:24

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VI. Étude

Track length1:24

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The first-ever release on ECM of music by the doyen of French contemporary composition Henri Dutilleux (born 1916) features a comprehensive overview of his highly original piano pieces from his early period (around 1948) to the late eighties. They are played by American pianist Robert Levin, a personal friend of Dutilleux’s, who gives performances of gripping energy and serene clarity.

Levin notes: “Dutilleux has always kept a discreet profile, composing with painstaking perfectionism, subjecting his works to relentless revision before, and sometimes after, they have been presented to the public”. So his output is rather small, but these polished masterworks follow the ideals of beauty and poetic mystery – structurally complex but full of colouristic and rhythmic appeal. This programme opens with the ground-breaking piano sonata of 1946-48, marked by a personal synthesis of French Impressionism and the clear-cut rhythmic contours characteristic of Soviet music of the same period. The shorter pieces – radiant, playful and highly sophisticated music condensed to its very

essence – “document Dutilleux’s trajectory from extended tonality to a sound world totally of his own invention, in which harmonies of dazzling iridescence inflect brilliant rhythmic and melodic gestures”.[.i]

Robert Levin (born 1947) is an internationally-renowned expert on classical period practice of improvised embellishments and cadenzas. His many recordings include Mozart concertos with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, and Beethoven concertos with John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. As Kim Kashkashian’s regular piano partner, he has recorded for ECM since 1984, most recently Songs from Spain and Argentina. In Figures de résonances the second pianist is Ya-Fei Chuang.

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August 2010

Levin fully understands the whole work's structure and his fingers to all that could be asked of them. He is alive, too, to the poetry of the atmospheric pieces and, with Ya-Fei Chuang, gives gripping performances of the four Figures de resonances.

August 2010

On this finely engineered ECM disc, Robert Levin's performance is all the more impressive for the unbridled energy and clarity with which it puts the music's distinctive argumentative character across.

1st June 2010

[Dutilleux] clearly suits [Levin], as the performances are wonderful. The later works are marvels of sheer sound, sometimes stark and bell-like, sometimes shimmering.

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