HENRI DUTILLEUX “Tout un monde lointain”, cello concerto. Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher… Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan

A bouquet of French cello music.

Dutilleux, the centenary of whose birth we celebrate on 22 January 2016, made his appearance on earth just a few months before the premiere of one of Debussy’s final compositions: the Cello Sonata presented on this disc. The filiation is a natural one, for at an early age fate placed Dutilleux under the auspices of the composer of Pelléas and in the vicinity of the cello, which his brother played. Alongside a new recording of the famous Strophes sur le nom de Sacher, Emmanuelle Bertrand joins with her partners in the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester to pay an eagerly awaited tribute to the ‘distant world’ hymned by the poems of Baudelaire and sublimely echoed by Dutilleux, the most sensitive composer of our time.