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WORKS FOR /
WITH BASSOON(S)
(catalogue from June 1st, 2007)
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M.612 : Wind Quintet (2000) [16’]
For flute (also piccolo and alto flute), oboe,
clarinet (b), horn and bassoon.
31 (+2) pages
M.612a :
performing material : 31(+2) pages - 31(+2) pages - 30(+2) pages - 29(+2) pages
- 26(+2) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio
recording
Every instrument is valued, in a great variety of
colours, work successively energetic, melancholic, mysterious, desolated or
contemplative. Order of the Eole Quintet, which first performed it September
2001, in the “Espace Jean-Tinguely-Niki de Saint-Phalle” of Fribourg.
M.620 :
Septet (2001) [18']
for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin,
violoncello and piano
41(+3) pages
M.620a :
performing material : 25(+2) pages - 25(+2) pages - 25(+2) pages - 27(+2) pages
- 26(+2) pages - 27(+2) pages
Presentation,
score excerpt and audio excerpts
This septet has been especially written for the formation of the Mittelland Ensemble. Five movements linked together, mixing disquieting, tragic, mysterious or melancholic aspects.
M.637
and 638 : Appel I and Appel II (2004)
[1']
for
bassoon or any other wind instrument
4 (+2)
pages
Appel means Call. Both Appels have been composed within the context of the ORB_IT project of the World New Music Days 2004. These two short pieces, like miniature fanfares, are written in order to be playable by any wind instruments (wood or brass).
M.642 : Suite for wind quintet
(2005-6) [18']
for flute (also piccolo and alto
flute in g), oboe (also english horn), clarinet in b flat (also little clarinet
in e flat, bass clarinet in b flat and ad libitum clarinet in a), bassoon (also
contrabassoon) and horn
36 (+5)p.
This suite, taken from the scenic
work « Les Serrures à Secret », is made of four movements and two
short interludes. The first movement is mysterious and almost hypnotic, the
second ironical, grotesque and mocking, the third first grave and solemn, then
progressively more appeased, and the fourth, first like a dance on obsessive
rhythms, ends on a touch of nostalgia. As for the two interludes surrounding
the second movement, they are quite in the spirit of the Musiques d’ameublement
by Satie. The full score serves also as separate part for each instrumentalist.
M.654 :
Le Tombeau de Ravel (2006) [6']
for tenor saxophone, bassoon, violin,
cello, piano, guitar and percussion
14
(+5) pages
M.654a :
performing material : 2 (+2) pages – 2 (+2) pages – 3 (+2) pages – 3
(+2) pages – 2 (+3) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio
excerpts
This
work has been written for a project of the Compagnie CH.AU, for which six composers
have written one movement each, corresponding to one of the parts of the
Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel. This piece inspires itself of the Menuet of the
Tombeau de Couperin, and has principally an elegiac, tender and nostalgic
character. It has also been instrumented for a chamber orchestra.
In preparation :
Work for solo
Bassoon
All commissions welcome!