(On-re’ Dü-te-yö’) 1916–2013 French composer Despite success as a young composer, Dutilleux disowned almost his entire oeuvre before the Piano Sonata (1946–48). He followed a very different path from his compatriot Boulez, and his two symphonies (1950–51 and 1955–59) exhibit strong links with the traditional Germanic form. Variation was a key feature of Dutilleux’s music, but he tended ...
at the Lucerne Festival in 1948. He formed a piano trio with Eugene Istomin and Leonard Rose in 1936; as a soloist he performed works by Bernstein, Penderecki, Dutilleux and Davies as well as the standard repertory, and he became one of the best-loved violinists of the twentieth century. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Mitsuko Uchida ...
Recording: There Was a Child, soloists, CBSO Chorus and Youth Chorus, City of Birmingham SO (cond) Simon Halsey (Signum) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Henri Dutilleux | Contemporary | Classical ...
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