Dutilleux: Le Loup / Wilson, Sinfonia of London

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
June 4, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DUTILLEUX, HENRI
    • PERFORMER
      Walker, Koch, Davies, Sinfonia Of London, Wilson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 04, 2021
    • UPC
      095115526323
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5263
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Tableau 1: La Baraque foraine. Les Mystifications

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Conductor: John Wilson

    2. Tableau 2: La Chambre nuptiale. La Belle et la Bête

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Conductor: John Wilson

    3. Tableau 3: La Forêt d'hiver. Danse d'amour - Danse de mort

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Conductor: John Wilson

    4. Flute Sonatine (arr. K. Hesketh for flute and orchestra)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Performer: Adam Walker

      Conductor: John Wilson

    5. I. Grave - Poco meno mosso -

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Performer: Juliana Koch

      Conductor: John Wilson

    6. II. Scherzo: Vif - Détendez très progressivement - Tempo I (Aria)

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Performer: Juliana Koch

      Conductor: John Wilson

    7. III. Finale: Assez allant - Poco ritenuto - Tempo I

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Performer: Juliana Koch

      Conductor: John Wilson

    8. Sarabande

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Performer: Jonathan Davies

      Conductor: John Wilson

    9. Cortège

      Composer: Henri Dutilleux

      Ensemble: Sinfonia of London

      Performer: Jonathan Davies

      Conductor: John Wilson


Following the success of their previous album, English Music for Strings, John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London turn their attention to the music of Henri Dutilleux. His ballet Le Loup was composed as a commission for Roland Petit’s dance company and premièred in Paris in March 1953. Rarely recorded – this is the first recording by a non-French orchestra – the work unfolds in three tableaux and tells a convoluted tale of a bridegroom who jilts his bride (to run away with a gypsy) by persuading her that he has been changed into a wolf. Over time she discovers that the wolf is real, but her feelings turn from terror to love and when the alarmed villagers hunt the wolf, she defends him and dies at his side. The album is completed by three world première recordings of new orchestrations (by Kenneth Hesketh) of wind solos written for the Paris Conservatoire in the 1940s. Both the Sarabande et Cortège and Sonate pour hautbois are virtuosic tours de force for their soloists, as is the Sonatine pour flûte, which displays the lyricism, agility, and sparkling incisive qualities of the flute in what became Dutilleux’s most-performed work.