Seattle Symphony Wins Second Grammy For Violin Concerto

Congratulations, Seattle Symphony! Another Grammy! The 2016 Grammy award for best classical instrumental solo went to violinist Augustin Hadelich, for Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L’Arbre Des Songes, with the Seattle Symphony conducted by Ludovic Morlot, a release on the orchestra’s own label.

Seattle Symphony earned its first Grammy last year — Best Contemporary Classical Composition — for its recording of John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean, a work SSO commissioned.

Is it any surprise that an orchestra based in the nature-conscious Pacific Northwest would produce award winners about oceans and trees? The title of the Dutilleux concerto translates as The Tree of Dreams.

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