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SIBELIUS // Humoresques

Nicolas Dautricourt,

La Dolce Volta presents a recording entirely devoted to an almost unknown part of the output of Sibelius.

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Through accidents of programming, Nicolas Dautricourt happened to discover a number of pieces that were new to him, including the Finnish composer’s Humoresques. In the course of time he explored the rest of these pieces, alongside his symphonic music. They seemed to him, like Sibelius’s output as a whole, to be highly individual, in a wholly personal vein, deriving from no earlier ‘school’ and distinct from any other musical language.

Fascinated by this extraordinary independence of mind, Nicolas Dautricourt reveals a more secret, more intimate repertory, in which virtuosity is of secondary importance. Of course, the violin can still dazzle, but the general mood is more confidential, closer to chamber music, with the primary emphasis on colours and impressions.

 
 

  • Two Humoresques for violin and orchestra, op.87 no.1 in D minor 3’56
  • Two Humoresques for violin and orchestra, op.87 no.2 in D major 2’43
  • Four Humoresques for violin and orchestra, op.89 no.1 in G minor 4’12
  • Four Humoresques for violin and orchestra, op.89 no.2 in Gminor 5’27
  • Four Humoresques for violin and orchestra, op.89 no.3 in E flat major 3’09
  • Four Humoresques for violin and orchestra, op.89 no.4 in G minor 3’16
  • Two Pieces for violin and orchestra, op.77 n°1 – Cantique (Laetare anima mea) 5’44
  • Two Pieces for violin and orchestra, op.77 n°2 – Devotion (Ab imo pectore) 3’31
  • Two Serenades for violin and orchestra, op.69 no.1 in D major 6’57
  • Two Serenades for violin and orchestra, op.69 no.2 in G minor 6’57
  • Suite for violin and orchestra, op.117 no.1, Country Scenery 2’30
  • Suite for violin and orchestra, op.117 no.2, Evening in Spring 4’06
  • Suite for violin and orchestra, op.117 no.3, In the Summer 2’01
  • Five Pieces for violin and piano, op.81 n°1 – Mazurka 2’55
  • Five Pieces for violin and piano, op.81 n°2 – Rondino 2’25
  • Five Pieces for violin and piano, op.81 n°3 – Walzer 3’47
  • Five Pieces for violin and piano, op.81 n°4 – Aubade 2’58
  • Five Pieces for violin and piano, op.81 n°5 – Menuetto 4’05
  • Pieces for violin and piano, op.2 – Romance op.2a 3’11
  • Pieces for violin and piano, op.2 – Perpetuum Mobile op.2b 1’31
  • Pieces for violin and piano, op.2 – Epilogue op.2b’ 2’30

 

The holder of the Prix Georges Enesco of the SACEM, voted ‘ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year’ at the Midem in Cannes, Nicolas Dautricourt is unquestionably ‘one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation’.

Having been invited to become a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center in New York, he now appears in the leading international venues (Washington Kennedy Center, New York Alice Tully Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Teatro Nacional de Belém, Copenhagen Concert Hall, Boston Gardner Museum, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Sendai City Hall) and in France (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Cité de la Musique, Musée d’Orsay, Arsenal de Metz, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence) and is a guest with numerous orchestras (Orchestre National de France, Detroit Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre Symphonique du Québec, Mexico Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, Kiev Philharmonic, NHK Chamber Orchestra, Kanazawa Ensemble, Scala di Milano Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonie de Lorraine, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, Orchestre d’Auvergne) under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, François-Xavier Roth, Fabien Gabel, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Michael Francis, Kazuki Yamada, Yuri Bashmet, Dennis Russell Davies, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jacques Mercier and Mark Foster, among others. He has also played at such leading festivals as the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Pärnu, Davos, Sintra, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, and La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo.

A prizewinner of several international competitions (Wieniawski, Lipizer, Belgrade), Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius dated 1713, the ‘Château Fombrauge’, generously loaned to him by Bernard Magrez.

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