Lutoslawski & Dutilleux - Cello Concertos | Pentatone PTC5186689

Lutoslawski & Dutilleux - Cello Concertos

Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5186689

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 16th November 2018

Contents

Artists

Johannes Moser (cello)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Conductor

Thomas Sondergard

Works

Dutilleux, Henri

Cello Concerto 'Tout un monde lointain'

Lutoslawski, Witold

Cello Concerto

Artists

Johannes Moser (cello)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Conductor

Thomas Sondergard

About

This album features cello concertos by Witold Lutosławski and Henri Dutilleux performed by the multiple prize-winning German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Thomas Søndergård. These works, premiered in 1970, are two of the biggest gems of the twentieth century, the golden age of the cello. While equally virtuosic and engaging, both pieces showcase different aspects of the musical landscape of the late twentieth century.

Lutosławski's concerto explores the possibilities of chance composition in the form of a duel between the solo cello and a ferocious orchestral accompaniment, in which the individual ultimately prevails. In comparison, soloist and ensemble work together more smoothly in Henri Dutilleux's Tout un monde lontain. In this "cello concerto", the composer invokes a mystical "world from afar", inspired by Baudelaire quotes and full of allusions to French musical greats such as Debussy and Messiaen, while simultaneously sounding unmistakably Dutilleuxian.

This is Moser's fourth album as an exclusive Pentatone artist, after releases with the cello concertos of Dvořák and Lalo (2015), Elgar and Tchaikovsky (2017) and works for cello and piano by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev (2016, awarded with a diapason d'or and ECHO Klassik 2017). The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin has an even longer track record with Pentatone, including albums with Vladimir Jurowski (Mahler/Strauss 2017, Schnittke 2015) Jakub Hrůša (Bartók/Kodály 2018) and Marek Janowski (complete Wagner operas, 2011-2013).

“Moser offers a performance that combines sensitivity, agility and brilliance”
- Gramophone

“His playing is more eloquent than elegiac, with a warm sonority. Above all, his mastery of articulation and of nuances has the ability to capture the attention of the most distracted of listeners” - Diapason

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Reviews

Johannes Moser maintains a keen focus over the eventful trajectory of the Lutosławski – ensuring absolute poise over those flights of fancy that constantly throw the soloist’s rhythmic precision off-kilter before the sardonic entry of the brass ... Throughout both works, Thomas Søndergård propels the music forwards with a real sense for their vastly different yet equally inevitable destinations. ... Anyone coming afresh to these masterly works, however, should now investigate this new release ahead of all others.  Richard Whitehouse
Gramophone February 2019

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