German music critics praise Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra is awarded the German Record Critics' Quarterly Prize for a recording of works by Henri Duttileux and Debussy.
The concerto "Tout un monde lointain" by Henri Dutilleux, composed between 1967 and 1970, has long since become a modern classic and is already available in several recordings, some of which feature a highly prominent cast, according to the explanatory statement written by Michael Stegemann for the jury. According to the statement, what makes the recording by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (LSO) with cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand stand out is its deeply poetic and, in the most beautiful sense of the word, "speaking" interpretation.
The references to the eponymous verses by Charles Baudelaire are the common thread here as a kind of "sound speech" that is interpreted, to which the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan contributes all the other colors that the work unfolds. The program selection also places Dutilleux in the context of Debussy.
