NOSPR / Josep Pons / Roxana Constantinescu - NOSPR

Born midway between Messiaen and Boulez, Dutilleux distrusted the dogma of serialism, and his musical language shares a sensuous orchestral colouring with the music of Debussy and Ravel. In his Nocturnes, Debussy paints grey clouds, flashes of light and a sea bathed in silvery moonlight, while Ravel, at the start of his Second Suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, illustrates the natural world as it awakens with the sunrise. His Shéhérazade was born of a fascination with the poetical vision of the Orient, while Dutilleux’s Métaboles was inspired by the subtle, but powerful, process of evolution observed in nature. The application of its laws gave rise to a form in which the composer subjected motifs to a succession of minor transformations until they assumed completely new shapes. As a result, the work unfolds in accordance with pre-imposed rules and its own inner logic.

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Duration of the concert: approx. 80 minutes