Debussy: La mer / Dutilleux: L'Arbre des songes / Ravel: La valse (Live) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Mariss Jansons

• 1 No. 1. De l'aube a midi sur la mer 09:22
• 2 No. 2. Jeux de vagues 07:25
• 3 No. 3. Dialogue du vent et de la mer 08:23
• 4 I. Librement 05:29
• 5 Interlude 02:47
• 6 II. Vif 02:10
• 7 Interlude 22:11
• 8 III. Lent 05:56
• 9 Interlude 31:18
• 10 IV. Large et anime 06:01
• 11 Mouvement de valse viennoise 06:35
• 12 Un peu plus modere 04:19
• 13 Mouvement du debut 01:34
• Total Runtime 01:53:30

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Celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra enjoys international renown for its 'velvet' strings, 'golden' brass and unique woodwinds. Under Mariss Jansons, the ensemble's rare unity and responsiveness create a single voice to be 'played' by a conductor. The result - as this thrilling recording attests - is the rapturous music-making that is the RCO hallmark. As the centerpiece of this all-French program, violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky gives a muscular reading of Henri Dutilleux's L'Arbre des songes - a work in which the solo part is deftly woven into the overall orchestral scheme.

“The magic of Jansons's conducting with the orchestra of which he is chief conductor could not be more compelling.” (Gramophone)

„With excellent performances of Debussy's La mer, Ravel's La valse, and Henri Dutilleux' violin concerto L'arbre des songes, Jansons demonstrates that he can also hold his own in French repertoire.This is actually an understatement, since in La mer the briny seawater splashes in your face and you feel the swelling of the waves, the ebb and flow, and the thrusting flow of the tide in a way that rarely happens in other recordings. In La valse it is immediately the suggestive, secret mysterious opening bars that under Jansons' direction imperceptibly and gradually lead, first carefully but shortly thereafter irresisibtly, to a dancing waltz. The progression to the sinister dance of death in the last section becomes inevitable. Dmitry Sitkovetsky is the first-class soloist in Dutilleux' fantastic violin concerto-a modern masterpiece for which the strongest possible case is made. RCO 08001 is a high point in the entire catalog.” (Erik Voermans, Parool)

“...Jansons has the courage to explore the darkness behind the Gallic sophistication. So the fierceness of the spray is almost palpable in Debussy's La Mer, and there is menace in the way Ravel's La Valse whirls towards its conclusion. The Concertgebouw Orchestra has the subtlety of colouring to bring something of its own to the music, from the pastel-edged tints of its solo woodwind to the velvety warmth of its strings and the edge of its brass. Last but not least, Dmitry Sitkovetsky explores the dreamland of Dutilleux's 'violin concerto' with insight to match the composer's glistening orchestral writing.” (The Daily Telegraph)

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor

Recorded 1, 2 4 February 2007 (Debussy, Ravel); 7, 8 June 2007 (Dutilleux)

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