Paavo Järvi, Orchestre de Paris - Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1, Métaboles, Sur le même accord (2014)

This recording is the first in a series featuring the Orchestre de Paris and its Music Director Paavo Järvi. The programme offers three works by Henri Dutilleux, widely considered the most important French composer of the second half of the 20th century: Sur le même accord ‘Nocturne for violin and orchestra’, with violinist Christian Tetzlaff, the Symphony No. 1 and Métaboles. The release coincides with the inauguration of the Philharmonie de Paris in January 2015, when Järvi and the Orchestra will perform the gala opening concerts.

Paavo Järvi became the seventh Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris in 2010/11, following such eminent conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan and Charles Munch, who founded it in 1967. Järvi’s partnership with the Orchestra has resulted in many memorable performances at home, on tour and on disc. In May 2014, they returned to Vienna’s Musikverein for a three-concert residency, followed by performances at the Aix-en-Provence Festival of Richard Strauss’s Elektra in the late Patrice Chereau’s final production. Järvi and the Orchestra have toured China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Estonia and Western Europe. Following a return visit to China in the autumn of 2014, with performances in Beijing and at the new Shanghai Symphony Hall, the Orchestra looks forward to becoming the resident ensemble of the new 2400-seat Philharmonie de Paris and to presenting the Gala Concerts that will mark the opening of the Hall. The first concert will include Dutilleux’s Sur le même accord with Renaud Capuçon as the soloist.