Depending on whom you talk to, contemporary French composer Henri Dutilleux is either the only living successor to the great French school exemplified by Debussy and Ravel, or a sterile ultra-modernist whose work is designed as torture for symphony subscribers. Dutilleux' output is not large, and recordings of it are not numerous, but Arte Nova's ...
While perhaps not one of the great performances of Daphnis et Chloé, this 2006 recording of Ravel's symphonie chorégraphique is still quite a fine effort. Laurent Petitgirard leads the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and the Bordeaux Opera Chorus in a wonderfully colorful, deeply idiomatic, and very well-played reading. With suave strings, ...
Thanks to the compatible and productive working relationship between the conductor and the composer, Hans Graf's excellent performances for Arte Nova's series of Henri Dutilleux's orchestral works may be considered authoritative. Recorded in 2000, this first volume in the three-disc survey features the Symphony No. 2, "Le Double" (1957-1959) -- so ...
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