Utwory na płycie:

• Wenn du dem Wind...: I. Sei ruhig meine Königin
• Wenn du dem Wind...: II. Triumph? Von wegen!
• Wenn du dem Wind...: III. Hetzt Hunde auf ihn!
• Aufgang: I.
• Aufgang: II.
• Aufgang: III.
• À Quia: I.
• À Quia: II.
• À Quia: III.

Wenn Du dem Wind… - Three scenes from the opera ‘Penthesilea’
Aufgang, concerto for violin and orchestra
A quia, concerto for piano and orchestra

Pascal Dusapin has composed a number of works for the stage, one of the more recent being the opera Penthesilea, after the play by Heinrich von Kleist. From the opera he has also fashioned Wenn Du dem Wind…, the concert suite which opens this disc. Although beginning and ending with a single line from a solo harp, throughout its course takes the listener through the extremes of love, war and the demands of inflexible laws.

Dusapin’s catalogue of works also includes several concertos, including Aufgang and A quiafor violin and piano respectively. Soloists on this recording are Natascha Petrinsky, who sang the role of Penthesileaat the premiere production of the opera, and Carolin Widmann and Nicolas Hodges, both highly respected interpreters in the field of contemporary music. They are supported by l’Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, a team well acquainted with the composer and his music: Dusapinand Rophéhave collaborated since the early 1990’s and during 2014 –16 he was the orchestra’s composer-in-residence.

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Recording: July 2017 at La Cité des congres, Nantes, France. Carolin Widmann plays on violin J. B. Guadagnini, 1782, Nicolas Hodges plays on Grand Piano - Steinway D.