Tag: Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher

  • PROGRAM NOTES: NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT

    PROGRAM NOTES: NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT

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    Henri Dutilleux Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher Swiss conductor Paul Sacher (1906-1999), founder of the Basel Chamber Orchestra, was an immensely important figure in 20th-century music. With a family fortune based on a controlling share of the Hoffman-LaRoche pharmaceutical empire, he commissioned works from some of the century’s greatest composers. These commissioned works…