Symphony No.1 - Henri Dutilleux [w/ score]

This symphony demonstrates Dutilleux’s attachment to the use of variation form, which is found in the outer two movements. The use of a passacaglia as a symphonic first movement is extremely rare. It consists of 35 repetitions of a four-bar bass motif, shown in the opening four bars by the double basses. The second movement was defined by Dutilleux as an ’original and energetic scherzo’, and very ’virtuosic and demonstrative’. In the third movement, he develops a process that he uses more extensively in sev