Edgar Moreau - Weinberg & Dutilleux: concerti (CD)

Cellist Edgar Moreau, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and conductor Andris Poga, performs two concertante works from the mid-20th century: Mieczyslaw 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 Mieczyslaw 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."

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 43: I. Adagio
2. Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 43: II. Moderato
3. Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 43: III. Allegro
4. Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 43: IV. Allegro
5. Cello Concerto "Tout Un Monde Lointain": I. Énigme
6. Cello Concerto "Tout Un Monde Lointain": II. Regard
7. Cello Concerto "Tout Un Monde Lointain": III. Houles
8. Cello Concerto "Tout Un Monde Lointain": IV. Miroirs
9. Cello Concerto "Tout Un Monde Lointain": V. Hymne