La Scena Musicale ★★★
Not to be heard at a single sitting, these are fabulous miniatures for large orchestra – if such a thing is possible – a set of short stories spread across two discs. I’m not advocating plagiarism, but any film composer with a John Williams complex would get a new lease of life from listening to this tone master at work. Pascal Rophé conducts a surprisingly agile Belgian band.
By Norman Lebrecht
The New York Times
What the album makes immediately apparent is that Mr. Dusapin – like his teacher, Iannis Xenakis, as well as modern composers like Harrison Birtwistle and Magnus Lindberg – has an exceptional knack for yoking and shaping the raw power of massed orchestral forces. (…) Mr. Rophé and his Belgian players do superb work, and the recording is thrillingly dynamic.
By Steve Smith
The International Record Review
Although these pieces were premièred by several notable orchestras and conductors, their entrusting to the Liège orchestra should surprise no one given the sheer responsiveness of its players to the composer’s exacting demands, while the authority of Pascal Rophé is evident at every stage. Those who know the second and third pieces in Emmanuel Krivine’s expert recording will find the present accounts an audible advance. The sound makes the most of the Salle Philharmonique’s fabled sense of perspective, and there are detailed notes from Dusapin himself. The opportunity to hear the whole sequence being unlikely, a recording as fine as this ensures that a major undertaking by one of today’s most significant composers can be more fully appreciated.
By Richard Whitehouse
Birtwistle and Magnus Lindberg – has an exceptional knack for yoking and shaping the raw power of massed orchestral forces
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