Emmanuelle Bertrand plays Dutilleux & Debussy

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan

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.

Written between 1967 and 1970 for Mstislav Rostropovich ‘Tout un monde’ is considered one of the most important 20th-century additions to the cello repertoire and several major cellists have recorded it. Despite the fact that the score does not state that it is a cello concerto, it has always been considered as such. [text from Presto Classical]