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Tortelier
/ tɔrtəlje /
noun
- TortelierPaul19141990MFrenchMUSIC: cellistMUSIC: composer Paul (pɔl). 1914–90, French cellist and composer
Example Sentences
You, and the NSO, are in good hands with Tortelier, who served as chief conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra until 2019.
It turns out that the cutting of the chorus is among a small handful of trims made in Tortelier’s own arrangement of “Daphnis et Chloé,” made in service of tightening the thing up a bit for the concert stage.
Ravel is, in Tortelier’s own words in past interviews, the composer closest to this conductor’s heart.
A particularly potent moment was the near total dimming of the house lights during the “Danse Lente et Mysterieuse” to a single spotlight over Tortelier — a lone instance of dramatic staging that foregrounded the tenderness at the core of the ballet’s titanic scale.
A brief but beguiling “Adagietto” preceded the suite’s highlight, a bracing “Farandole” that had the tails of Tortelier’s jacket leaping along with him.
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