End of a cycle and the beginning of another

Since 1992, Pascal Dusapin has undertaken the realization of a cycle of seven orchestral pieces that allowed him to illustrate with strength, intensity and a certain brightness the specificity of its approach emphasizing the play of colors. "Reverso" and "Uncut" which opens this disc form the two last parts of the building of seven parts. Reverso is the longest of all, taking it in the mediaeval tradition that soloists perform expressive rates on the penultimate chord, resulting in developments. Dusapin superimposes musical layers (much like Escaich) and contains all the themes of the previous five parts to reprocess.

"Uncut" instead differs by violence, aggression of his music as if the end of the cycle could only be done in a kind of Dantesque precipitation; remarkable anyway.

"Morning in Long Island" was inspired during a long drive in 1988 with the writer Olivier Cadiot on the beach in Long Island. Dusapin had the feeling to hear music there formed by all the elements of nature. Hence the idea to start with this album a new cycle of three pieces of nature.

Here the music is tormented like the wind blowing over the sea, unleashing succeeds the calm and it is a tumultuous but exciting journey that we invited the composer.

The Philhar and Myung-Whun Chung are perfectly at ease in this type of rooms in symbiosis with Dusapin, and this gives a great moment in contemporary music, superbly captured.