

Seattle Symphony Media recordings are also available in 96k 24-bit high resolution and 5.1 surround sound formats. 2, Le double was recorded live in concert on June 5 and 7, 2014.ĭigital downloads and CDs will be available for presale through iTunes and Amazon beginning July 17. L’arbre des songes was recorded on November 4 and 7, 2014. Métaboles was recorded live in concert on September 25, 27 and 28, 2014. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington. Total Timing: 73:08 // Catalog Number: SSM1007 // Producer: Dmitriy Lipay To obtain physical or digital review copy of either release, or other information on Seattle Symphony Media, please contact Katharine Boone at log-in credentials.

He made an important era of 20th-century music come alive for me, and in the process deepened and enriched my understanding. We subsequently met over martinis in Paris, discussing music and literature. I witnessed firsthand his considerable creative powers, as he was a perfectionist in the best sense of the word, and was always engaged.


The Boston Symphony commissioned The Shadows of Time, and I had the privilege of sitting next to Dutilleux during rehearsals as he reworked his score from its previous premiere. Regarding The Shadows of Time, Morlot recalls, “I first met Henri Dutilleux in the fall of 2001 after having spent the summer as a student at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home. 1 and Tout un monde lointain were recorded in studio sessions, and The Shadows of Time was recorded live. 1, the cello concerto Tout un monde lointain (“A Whole Distant World”) with cellist Xavier Phillips, and The Shadows of Time with boy sopranos Benjamin Richardson, Kepler Swanson and Andrew Torgelson. The first volume, released in March of 2014, featured Symphony No. The latest album captures the Seattle Symphony in live and studio performances at Benaroya Hall with exceptional sound quality, see below for details. “This second installment, in a way, encapsulates all that we’ve accomplished on this repertoire over my tenure so far, and I think Dutilleux would have taken great pride in the fact that his music is being played so often in Seattle and with such dedication." “The orchestra has been on a journey through Dutilleux’s music for the past four years now, and in my view has developed a very intrinsic understanding of this incredible body of work,” says Music Director Ludovic Morlot. The orchestra plans to release Volume 3 during Dutilleux’s 100th anniversary season in 2016. In Volume 2, Morlot and the orchestra continue their distinctive survey of the French composer’s orchestral works,featuring a studio recording of the violin concerto L’arbre des songes (The Tree of Dreams) with violinist Augustin Hadelich, and electrifying live performances of Symphony No. On August 11, Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony release the second volume of orchestral works of Henri Dutilleux on Seattle Symphony Media. Part of a three-disc, multi-year recording project, Volume 1 was hailed by The New York Times as a “Gorgeous, authoritative collection” and received three Grammy nominations earlier this year for Best Orchestral Performance, Best Classical Instrumental Solo by Xavier Phillips and Best Engineered Album.
