Weinberg, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos Edgar Moreau, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln & Andris Poga

• Mieczysław Weinberg (1919 - 1996): Cello Concerto in C Minor, Op. 43:
• 1 Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C Minor, Op. 43: I. Adagio 07:34
• 2 Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C Minor, Op. 43: II. Moderato 05:42
• 3 Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C Minor, Op. 43: III. Allegro - Cadenza 10:18
• 4 Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C Minor, Op. 43: IV. Allegro 09:32
• Henri Dutilleux (1916 - 2013): Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain":
• 5 Dutilleux: Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": I. Énigme. Très libre et flexible 06:40
• 6 Dutilleux: Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": II. Regard. Extrêmement calme 06:59
• 7 Dutilleux: Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": III. Houles. Large et ample 04:36
• 8 Dutilleux: Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": IV. Miroirs. Lent et extatique 05:22
• 9 Dutilleux: Cello Concerto "Tout un monde lointain": V. Hymne. Allegro 04:53
• Total Runtime 01:01:36

Info for Weinberg, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos

Cellist Edgar Moreau, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and conductor Andris Poga, performs two concertante works from the mid-20th century: Mieczysław Weinberg’s Concerto in C minor (1956), and Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain … (1970). Both were premiered by the great Mstislav Rostropovich, which creates a special link with Moreau: in 2014 in Paris, he won the Young Soloist Prize in the Rostropovich Cello Competition. In recent years, interest has grown in the music of the Polish-born Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg, who was mentored by Shostakovich. The title Tout un monde lointain … evokes a distant world, and Dutilleux’s five-movement work does indeed take us to a very different place from Weinberg’s, drawing inspiration from the sensuous poems of Charles Baudelaire. Praising Edgar Moreau’s last Erato album, Transmission, Gramophone wrote: “His tone is beautiful, his phrasing rapt, and the intensity of his delivery is magnified in the immediacy of his presence in the sound picture.”

Edgar Moreau, cello
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Andris Poga, conductor

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