Par HAHN REYNALDO. Along with Piano music, song is Reynaldo Hahn's (1874-1947) preferred genre: with his light Baritone voice, the young prodigy conquered Parisian salons by singing the works of his favourite composers (Gounod, Massenet, Fauré), not to mention his own compositions, which enchanted audiences. Though finely wrought, these songs have a naturalness which continues to please, as eviden…

Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. “Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps / That may shake down into a world, perhaps […]” (Robert Graves, The Devil’s Advice to Storytellers). Those were the words that led me on the composition of this short piece: an assemblage of a variety of little motifs, chords and textures, heard progressively in different combinations, separately or together, across the two mi…

Par GARIBOLDI GIUSEPPE. Italian flautist and composer, Giuseppe Gariboldi (1833-1905) moved to Paris after his studies where he worked as a virtuoso Flute player and prolific composer. Being exceedingly talented, Gariboldi's compositions range fromoperettas to studies, including his ever-popular teaching aid, Vingt Petites Études for Flute. Covering a huge spectrum of Flute techniques, studies in …

Par MESSIAEN OLIVIER. Drawing its material from the tui bird from New Zealand, Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau Tui) was originally envisaged as the third movement of Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà..., Messiaen's last completed work. Despite having written all of the music in short score, the composer reluctantly decided to omit this remarkable movement from Éclairs at a relatively late stage. This real…

Par ABOULKER ISABELLE. Defenders of the oppressed and fighters against injustice, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola often put their genius to the service of great causes: the abolition of the death penalty and child labor, the advancement of women in society, the awareness of the Dreyfus affair' Conceived in the same years and under the same sky, the much less profound words of Baroness Staffe in her man…

Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. ?Enero? for solo guitar has been commissioned by Listenpony and first performed by Laura Snowden at Listenpony #15, Crypt on the Green, on 30th January 2018. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / Guitare

Par JOLAS BETSY. 'Almost half a century after 'B for sonata', here is another musical evocation of my intriguing trip to Bali. Yannis Xenakis and Toru Takemitsu were there, among others, and we were walking around in the dark one evening when a Topeng appeared to us, in full action: Balinese musical theatre with one actor successively playing several legendary characters by means of mask changes c…

Par VOGEL HELMUT. \'In \'Quatre caractères\' I seek to represent the four human temperaments in music, as well as the different colors and registers that are brought together in the saxophone quartet. The four movements are written in free form and should not only be associated with mental states but reflect gestural actions.\'\' Helmut Vogel\' / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Répertoire / 4 Saxophon…

Par MENDONCA VASCO. 'Terrance Hayes? series of sonnets is an extraordinary collection of poems: his poetry captures the spiralling social and political chaos in America (and the world) in a way no newspaper article or scholarly essay has been able to; his words have the rare quality of clarifying a collective feeling that is messy and confusing, an elusive and disturbing combination of fear, hope,…

Par PROBST TATIANA. Commissioned by Claude Desmarets, this string quartet was written at Fontevraud Abbey in 2016 as part of a composer's residence organized by the association 'Foyer Joy-eux' which is devoted to perpetuating the memory of pianist Geneviève Joy and composer Henri Dutilleux. 'Ainsi un nouveau jour' is an imaginary continuation of Dutilleux's legendary quartet 'Ainsi la nuit' create…