There have been dozens of recordings of Debussy's La Mer and Ravel's La Valse in the digital era, but only half a dozen of Dutilleux's L'Arbe des songes since Isaac Stern's world-premiere recording in 1985. La Mer and La Valse have been orchestral favorites since their premieres in 1905 and 1920, and considering its youth, L'Arbe des songes is doing quite well in recorded terms. As Russian violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky demonstrates in this live 2007 performance with Mariss Jansons conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ...
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There have been dozens of recordings of Debussy's La Mer and Ravel's La Valse in the digital era, but only half a dozen of Dutilleux's L'Arbe des songes since Isaac Stern's world-premiere recording in 1985. La Mer and La Valse have been orchestral favorites since their premieres in 1905 and 1920, and considering its youth, L'Arbe des songes is doing quite well in recorded terms. As Russian violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky demonstrates in this live 2007 performance with Mariss Jansons conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, L'Arbe des songes, like La Mer and La Valse before it, can stand up to repeated recordings and still reveal new facets. With his focused tone and steely technique, Sitkovetsky plays the work less as a combination of impressionist colors and modernist rhythms than as a sui generis masterpiece whose pedigree includes impressionism and modernism but whose fusion of technical display and emotional appeal is the composer's own. Anyone who has enjoyed the work's previous recordings will...
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