3 strophes sur le nom sacher henri dutilleux

3 strophes sur le nom sacher henri dutilleux full#

3 strophes sur le nom sacher henri dutilleux full#

His attention to the full range of dynamics is unimpeachable. He seems to revel in such effects as glissando and quasi col legno inhabiting the piece. He phrases exquisitely and does not shortchange either the ebullience or darkness of the music. I found his performance preferable to the very good one by Tatjana Vassilieva on Naxos. His technique is formidable and he has a rich and beautiful tone. I don’t have Rostropovich’s definitive account to hand, but Alexis Descharmes is an eloquent advocate of the work. All three stanzas contain a reference to Sacher’s name. The three stanzas as a single composition work beautifully, with the second one a slow movement followed by a finale marked vivace. Thus, Dutilleux created a kind of double homage here. Sacher of course had commissioned Bartók for his famous work.

He employed a variety of technical effects and quoted Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in the first of the stanzas. Faster than adagio but slower than allegretto chamber music, Kammermusik G, musique de chambre F, musica da camera I, musica cameralis L 'Classical Music' for a small ensemble, generally 8 or fewer players with a canonical emphasis on 3-6 players. Dutilleux produced a technically demanding composition with the two lower strings of the cello tuned lower, the G string to F sharp and the C string to B flat and he gradually introduced the name SACHER into the music by means of the musical notation. Dutilleux was not the only composer commissioned to celebrate Sacher’s special occasion, but one of twelve. Rostropovich had already given the first performance of Dutilleux’s great cello concerto, Tout un monde lointain….and so the composer was undoubtedly familiar with the cellist’s fabulous technique and sumptuous tone. Dutilleux responded with the first of the ‘stanzas’ and later added two further movements. The genesis of the three “stanzas” was a commission by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write a piece for Paul Sacher’s 70th birthday. With the Trois Strophes sur le nom de SACHER for solo cello, we are exposed to the mature Dutilleux, one of the most remarkable composers of the late 20th century.