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WORKS FOR /
WITH VOICE(S)
(catalogue from August
1st, 2010)
FOR ORDERING A SCORE - PRICE
LIST
Oratorios – Lieder, mélodies – Stage works
M.528 : Vers le soleil couchant (Towards the setting sun), oratorio (1995-6) [42']
for 4 soli (SATB), children's or young girl's choir, mixed choir and
orchestra (0-c.a.-2 basset horns-2
0-2-3-0 Perc.(2) Vl. and Vc. soli strings)
M.528 full score 148 (+ 15)
pages
M.528a reduction voice/piano: 91
(+15) pages
Performing material to be
asked from the composer.
CD recording
Numerous texts, also superimposed, on the subject of death, from the
epic of Gilgamesh to E. Brontë, from the Vedas to
Apollinaire (in English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Sanskrit
languages). Very impressive work in its expressivity and its musical as well as
philosophical development. Multitude of climates and
very appeased ending. An order from the choir of the
Fribourg University, which has first performed this work with great success in
June 1996.
M.625 : Le Nom Caché (The Hidden Name), oratorio (2001-2) [48']
for 4 soli (SATB), mixed choir, solo cello, two pianos and percussion (6
players)
M.625 full score 149 (+ 30)
pages
M.625a reduction voice/piano:
197 (+26) pages
Performing material to be
asked from the composer.
CD recording
Presentation, score excerpts and audio
excerpts — Text
Ordered by the National Swiss
Exposition (2002). Work based on texts stressing the anguish, and then
the appeasement of the beings facing the mystery of a hidden God, that can’t be
named. The work develops itself while following the various human feelings : questioning, rebellion, despair, haunting doubts,
acceptation of the limits of human comprehension, contemplative silence.
M.462 : Racines
avides (1991-2) [17']
for middle voice and piano
23 (+5) pages
Work yet to be first-performed (!! please contact the composer for first performance)
7 poems in French language
by Luce Péclard relating the human search for the
inside of his being. Polyphonic, subtle accompaniment by
the piano; more mystical and bare parts.
M.548 :
Auf die erniedrigende Erhebung und erhebte
Niedrigkeit (1997) [5']
for high voice and piano
6 (+1) pages
Text in German language by
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg. Conflict between mysticism and human torment. Appeasement during the coda, played only by the piano.
M.549 : Elògio della Nòtte
(1997) [10']
for voice and piano
12 (+3) pages
CD recording
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpt — Text
Three versions : original
version for bass voice, version for alto voice, version for medium voice. On texts by Michelangelo, in Italian language. Dark and tormented, then meditative and appeased. particularly well-written for the bass-voice. The
accompaniment is sober, which is even more impressive.
M.559 : Al cor di zolfo... (1997) [5']
for bass-voice and piano
5 (+2) pages
Between passion and
thought. On a sonnet by Michelangelo (in
Italian language).
M.659 : Quelle
terre est vide de toi ? (2007) [3’]
7 (+ 3) pages
Text and audio excerpt from the
oratorio out of which this song is taken
This
song is a transcription of a passage of the oratorio « Le Nom Caché » (The Hidden Name). The text, by the composer,
is inspired by mystic poems of the sufi sage Hallaj ;
it is a meditation on the unknowable nature of the Divinity.
In preparation :
Work for voice, flute,
viola and harp after haiku texts
Collections of works for
voice and piano: cycles on words by V. Hugo, Shakespeare, etc...
M.634 : Les Serrures à Secret
(2003-5) [95']
For solo bass, actors, choirs and instrumental
ensemble
242 (+16) pages
On a libretto by Michel Gremaud. Explores
the myth of Hephaestus, placed in our time. The instrumental
ensemble is divided into different groups, among which a wind quintet and a
percussion ensemble.
In project :
Opera
after a Japanese medieval stage work
Thyestes,
after Seneca
Other
projects on request
All commissions welcome!