Hi Res Download, Dutilleux (composer)

Queyras and Tharaud clearly enjoy the process as well as the freedom of interpretation and presentation that the encore gives. But there is a niggling feeling here of something missing, and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The technical standard of the playing is extremely high. The orchestral negotiates the perils of Dutilleux's scherzo with apparent sangfroid, and at the speed indicated. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What can a cellist achieve alone? A polyphonic, technicolour panorama in Christian-Pierre La Marca’s idiosyncratic tour through the distant and immediate musical past...Stand-out among the performances... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The undoubted jewel on the disc is the performance of the Dutilleux concerto, which is in every way outstanding…Elschenbroich demonstrates virtuosity and musicianship of a high order — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dutilleux shows his attraction towards Alban Berg's orchestral colours…[and] the playing throughout the disc is superb, using a vast range of dynamics. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

French and Swiss works from 1930-56 imbued with the angst and despair that defined the period. Passionate solo and duo performances. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Timbres, espace, mouvement (1978, revised 1991) can be counted as Dutilleux's best orchestral composition, at once rooted in tradition yet persistently sceptical about conventional 'symphonic'... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…