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  • Two BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra proms with conductor Donald Runnicles, heard in the hall, included cellist Lynn Harrell as a refined soloist in Dutilleux's meticulously detailed Tout un monde lointain.

    Die Walküre; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 – review 2011

  • Certainly no other U.S. orchestra is paying as much attention to 95-year-old Henri Dutilleux right now; three of his orchestral works as well as seven chamber pieces are scheduled between the start of the season and June.

    Seattle Symphony's French Revolution David Mermelstein 2011

  • Prades Music "Festival Pablo Casals de Prades" is a chamber music festival with 44 performances featuring music by Bach, Liszt, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Dutilleux.

    What's on Around Europe 2011

  • With its relentless metamorphosis of sonorities, the Dutilleux is fiendishly difficult to perform, but the quartet made it an exciting, if somewhat perplexing, tour de force.

    In performance: KenCen Chamber Players 2010

  • After the break was Dutilleux '"Tout un monde lointain ...", a de facto cello concerto played in five movements which is almost entirely about small gestures from a very large ensemble.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • After the break was Dutilleux '"Tout un monde lointain ...", a de facto cello concerto played in five movements which is almost entirely about small gestures from a very large ensemble.

    We built this city (on 20th c. art music) 2008

  • Henri Dutilleux expertly and hauntingly deployed a very non-orchestral instrument, the accordion, in his song cycle "Le Temps L'Horloge" — one could certainly conjure up a reedy facsimile with some clever orchestration, but the actual presence of the instrument was both more convincing and more poetic.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Henri Dutilleux expertly and hauntingly deployed a very non-orchestral instrument, the accordion, in his song cycle "Le Temps L'Horloge" — one could certainly conjure up a reedy facsimile with some clever orchestration, but the actual presence of the instrument was both more convincing and more poetic.

    Antiquing Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Boulez and Lutoslawski and Birtwistle and Dutilleux and Ligeti and if you're operatically inclined, Berg

    Finland Station at the San Francisco Symphony sfmike 2008

  • People see a contemporary name on a programme - even that of Dutilleux, who I regard as not only the greatest living composer but the loveliest to listen to - and they run a mile.

    New music; concert halls; and The Emperor's New Clothes Jessica 2004

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