On January 27th, 2014, Pascal Dusapin’s new album will be released on Deutsche Grammophon France. The album features the compositions Reverso [solo n°6], Uncut [solo n°7] and Morning in Long Island. All works were recorded in 2011 at Salle Pleyel in Paris by Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung.

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The CD Morning in Long Island will be available online and in stores in France. Additionally, the album can be purchased on iTunes. 

Pascal Dusapin describes Morning in Long Island
Morning in Long Island is the first composition of a to-be-completed cycle of three "concerts for orchestra". The cycle’s subject is nature, and this first piece is devoted to the memory of nature. Here is what Pascal Dusapin says the work:

"One day in October 1988, quite improbably, the writer Olivier Cadiot and I found ourselves in a house on Long Island. It was so cold and damp that it was impossible to sleep. I went down to the beach in the small hours, and it was just so beautiful. I remember the strange light which bathed the sky, the sound of waves breaking, flocks of birds gliding in circles, the salty scents of the sand, and those immense plants washed up on the shore like lianas rustling in a wild farandole. In the distance, carried by the wind that twisted and turned, I could hear the music of a dance coming, like fragments of some ancient memory. I walked for hours. On my return, I told Olivier (he was dying of cold) of the emotions I had felt and he said to me, "One day you ought to write a piece with the title Morning in Long Island… "

Reverso and Uncut
Over almost two decades, from Go composed in 1992 to Uncut written in 2008-2009, Pascal Dusapin composed another cycle of seven orchestral pieces. Each piece here is independent of the others. It can be played alone, but they are each interdependent and can be combined in different manners. Reverso and Uncut are the solos numbered 6 and 7 from the cycle.

Reverso was premiered in 2007 by Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle. It is the longest piece in the cycle, "the culminating point of the cycle, the place where it is possible to apprehend the properties of its whole." (Pascal Dusapin) This dynamism is born of another idea which Pascal Dusapin has formulated elsewhere: music that is "backwards", moving in an opposite direction, from back to front. Uncut is the opposite of the sculptural nature of Reverso: "Music in which the depth of field in the sound is practically inexistent."