Dutilleux at 7.30

[ardcarp]

London Symphony Orchestra and Leonidas Kavakos in French Music
Radio 3 in Concert (Weds 13th Jan)

Dutilleux 100

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Leonidas Kavakos in a programme of French music.

Live from the Barbican Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Dutilleux: L'arbre des songes
Delage: Four Hindu Poems

8.20: Interval

Dutilleux: Métaboles
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No 2

Julia Bullock, soprano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

Sir Simon Rattle conducts an evocative programme featuring masterful works by three pre-eminent French composers of the 20th century.
Delage's rarely heard Four Hindu Poems is a set of sparse, jewel-like miniatures for small ensemble and soprano. It is set alongside masterpieces by Ravel and Dutilleux, including Dutilleux's violin concerto L'arbre des songes (Tree of Dreams), performed by Leonidas Kavakos, and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2, which the composer described as a 'symphonie choreographique'.

[Roslynmuse]

London Symphony Orchestra and Leonidas Kavakos in French Music
Radio 3 in Concert (Weds 13th Jan)

Dutilleux 100

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Leonidas Kavakos in a programme of French music.

Live from the Barbican Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Looking forward to catching up with this later; primarily for the Dutilleux, but also for the Delage - interesting programming. I've a few of recordings of them - Felicity Lott, Janet Baker and Dawn Upshaw, and a complete survey of Delage mélodies on Timpani from Sandrine Piau.

Métaboles is a superb piece - such a tight structure, wonderfully inventive textures and so memorable. The violin concerto is a more difficult shape to grasp, and I've never been convinced by the 'tuning the violin' moment (apparently Dutilleux's wife, Genevieve Joy, was not convinced by it either!) but the harmonic language is one that I find very attractive and it will be interesting to hear Kavakos in this repertoire.

[HighlandDougie]

I've posted on the 'Last Concert' thread but I found this to be an exceptionally enjoyable concert, IMV well worth catching up on via i-Player.