Symphoniker Hamburg / Edgar Moreau / Sylvain Cambreling
Dutilleux / Bruckner
Cinema for the ears
»Tout un monde lointain« – »A far-off world« – for cello and orchestra is a work by Dutilleux inspired by the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. The second movement, for example, is entitled »Regard«, and refers to the Baudelaire poem »Poison«, with the lines »The poison that runs from your green eyes … Lakes in which my soul trembles and sees its evil side«. Ethereal and fascinating music, bittersweet and with a »poisonous« cello.
This »poison« is completely dissolved in Bruckner’s dramatic, chorale-like Fourth Symphony. The atmospheric score radiates a feeling of grateful relaxation with a pleasant note of the sublime – in combination with an inner picture of a splendid landscape under a clear sky that fills the beholder with happiness.
A symphony that opens with music which composers of film soundtracks in the second half of the 20th century deliberately made use of: a very quiet expanse of strings with peaceful double basses on which the other strings rise in tremolos. This is followed by a simple call from a single horn. A vivid depiction of nature full of imagery. Cinema for the ears.
Performers
Symphoniker Hamburg
Edgar Moreau violoncello
conductor Sylvain Cambreling
Programme
Henri Dutilleux
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra »Tout un monde lointain...«
– Interval –
Anton Bruckner
Sinfonie Nr. 4 Es-Dur »Romantische«
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