Strauss, Dutilleux and Debussy - Program Notes




BSO 2016/17 Season - Concert Previews show

Summary: Download the program notes! Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit leads this colorful Francophile program that begins with Strauss's charming quasi-ersatz 17th-century music to accompany a new version of Molière's play "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Joining Dutoit and the orchestra is French cellist Gautier Capuçon in his BSO debut, performing Henri Dutilleux's "Tout un monde lointain..". The great French composer Dutilleux (b.1916), completed this shimmering concerto-like work in 1970 for the great Mstislav Rostropovich. Closing the program is Debussy's symphony-like "La Mer", three musical pictures of the sea.