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WORKS FOR /
WITH VIOLIN(S)
(catalogue from June 1st, 2007)
FOR ORDERING A SCORE - PRICE LIST
Concertos – works
for solo violin
Duos – Trios – Quartets – Quintets – Septet
M.544 : Concerto n.1 (1996) [13']
for
violin and orchestra (2*-2*-2*-2*
2-0-0-0 Strings)
Full
score: 20(+4) pages
Reduction
violin and piano: 11(+1) pages
Solo violin part: 5(+1) pages
Work yet to be
first-performed (!! please contact the
composer for first performance)
In two parts, the first one desolated and tragic, with
the cadenza almost at the beginning of the work, and the second one meditating
and profound, going away at the end towards high sounds (soloist part), towards
deep sounds (orchestra), and towards silence.
M.579 : Concerto n.2 (1998) [19’]
for
violin and string orchestra (6-6-4-4-1/ 2)
M.579: Full
score: 58(+3) pages
M.579a: Reduction
with piano: 32(+2) pages
Solo violin part: 12(+2) pages
Performing
material to be asked from the composer.
score excerpt (pdf)
First movement virtuoso and passionate, the second
calm and meditative, the third energetic. The cadenza, particularly expressive,
is to be found at the end of the second movement. First performance in
Budapest, conducted by Tibor Varga, with Isabelle Lambelet as soloist.
M.607 : Concerto n.3 (1999) [20']
for
violin and full orchestra (3**-3*-3*-3*
4-3-3-1 T.-t. Strings)
M.607: Full
score: 51(+2) pages
M.607a: Reduction
with piano: 43(+2) pages
Solo violin part: 17(+1) pages
Performing
material to be asked from the composer.
Presentation, score excerpts and
audio recording
In two parts. The first virtuoso and dramatic, the
second elegiac, tristamente semplice. Ordered by the Radio Suisse
Romande - Espace 2, compulsory piece of the International Violin Competition
Tibor Varga - 2000. First performed by Ryoko Yano, winner of the interpretation
prize and 1st prize of the Competition, and the Chamber Orchestra of
Lithuania, conducted by Gilbert Varga.
M.629 : Double Concerto for pipa, violin
and orchestra (2002-5) [21']
(2*-2*-2*-2*
2-0-0-0 2Perc. Strings)
64(+6)
pages
Pipa and
violin part : 40 (+4) pages
Performing material to be asked from the composer.
To be first performed soon !
Work written for the famous pipa (chinese lute) player
Yang Jing, and the violinist Boris Livschitz. In three movements : the first
one alternates mysterious and energetic passages, the second one is meditative.
The third, Eruptivo, contains an important cadenza for the soloists.
M.481 : Concerto for 15 soloist strings (1994) [20']
for 8
violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos and double bass
103(+1)
pages
Performing
material to be asked from the composer.
Presentation, score
excerpt and audio recording
Each instrumentalist is at the same time soloist,
chamber musician and member of the orchestra. 3 movements: passionate, elegiac,
and the third more rhythmical, with successive cadenzas for each of the 15
soloists. First performed during the opening concert of the Tibor Varga
Festival 1994, by the members of the Festival Orchestra, conducted by Tibor
Varga.
M.497 : Fantasia (1994-5) [10']
for solo
violin
8(+1)
pages
Very virtuoso work in its middle part (fantastico),
very expressive starting and ending. Contains a fugue on the name of BACH. Ordered
by the Radio Suisse Romande - Espace 2, compulsory piece of the international
violin competition Tibor Varga - 1995.
M.585 : Soliloque (1998) [6']
for solo
violin
2(+1)
pages
score excerpt (pdf)
Work of great inner contemplation, between melancholy
and serenity. First performance in Morgins, 2002, by Jan Dobrzelewski, during
the festival “Flâneries Musicales de Champéry”.
M.633 : Complainte (2003) [6']
for solo
violin
5(+2)
pages
Presentation, score excerpt
and audio excerpts
Written at the
request of Shlomo Mintz to be the compulsory piece of the International Violin
Competition of Sion (2003). Between rage and resignation, lamentation and
anger.
M.655 : Petite Suite de Danses
(2006-7) [8’]
for violin and piano
22 (+ 3) pages with violin part : 10
pages
This
little dance suite consists of four movements (Polka, Dwarves Gallop, Totentanz
- Dance of Death - and Dance of the wild man). It is a transcription of four of
the Swiss Dances, originally written for
four handed piano.
M.630 :
Reflets (2003-4) [12']
for violin and percussion (1 percussionist)
22 (+4) pages
Presentation,
score excerpt and audio excerpt
Violin and percussion give answer to one another,
imitate, call, influence, attract or repulse each other, as reflections of one
another. The percussion part requires a lot of timbres and ways of playing.
M.652 : Émergences (2006) [7']
for violin and accordion
10 (+3)p.
This work has been written for Marianne Piketty and
Pascal Contet, on request of the Festival des Musicales d’Auberive (France). It
is a little enigmatic work, basing itself on one hand on threatening, or even
stormy clusters, and on impassive tritones, and, on the other hand, on lyrical
of dreamy passages. The title can evoke the emergence of forces of the
Subconscious, the emergence of physical or meteorological phenomena, or also
the emergence of sonorous events, for instance the pianissimo apparition of the
violin under a forte of the accordion.
M.537 : Duo (1996) [9']
for
violin and cello
10(+1)
pages
Energetic work. Free polyphony and imitation
techniques at the service of a work full of life and invention.
M.540 : Duo (1996) [11']
for
violin and alto saxophone
13(+1) pages
score excerpt (pdf)
Well level-headed parts, to avoid the saxophone
covering the violin. 4 movements: appassionato, dreamy, energico and inner. An
order of the Jeunesses Musicales of Fribourg.
M.473 : Adagio (1993) [5']
for violin
and piano
8(+1)
pages with violin part : 3 pages
Work of classical aspect, of bright simplicity. Very
melodious violin part.
M.520 : Trio (1995-6) [17']
for
violin, cello and piano
35(+1) pages ; violin and cello parts : 20(+1)
pages - 20(+1) pages
Presentation, score excerpts and audio
excerpts
Tragic work, with tensed climates, sometimes
mysterious, even terrifying, a scherzo furioso and a more calm ending.
Commission of the Animae Trio, which first performed it in Fribourg and at the
Melos-Ethos Festival of Bratislava.
M.552 : String trio (1997-8) [18’]
for
violin, viola and violoncello
26(+2)
pages
M.552a:
performing material : 9(+2), 10(+1), 11(+1) pages
Presentation, score excerpts and audio excerpts
Meditating work. The central part alternates growls of
revolt and of resignation, even grief. The appeased end moves off to inner
silence. Commission of Pro Helvetia for the Zurich String Trio, which first
performed it during August 2000 on the occasion of a tour in India and Sri
Lanka.
M.587 : String quartet n.1 (1998-9) [17’]
for 2
violins, viola and violoncello
12(+1)
pages
M.587a: performing
material : 10(+1), 3x8(+1) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio
excerpts
Ordered for the Talich Quartet, which has declared to have
“enjoyed playing this lovely, thoughtful piece”. Single slow movement of a
distress as extreme as its expressive density. Feeling of resignation.
M.660 : Cyprès (2007) [3’20]
for string quartet (2 violins, viola and violoncello)
5 (+ 2) pages
M.660a : performing material : 4x2 (+1) pages
This short work has
been written on the occasion of the first performance of the complete song
cycle « Cypresses » by Dvorak, out of which Dvorak himself had
transcribed for string quartet 12 of the songs. The work has a nostalgic
character, and uses the melodic cells taken from the 15th song of
the cycle, which Dvorak hasn’t transcribed for quartet. The interpreters of the
first performance shall be the members of the Leipziger String Quartet during
the Ljubljana 2007 Festival.
M.484 : Exils (1994/7) [9']
for
violin, cello and 2 percussionists
17(+3)
pages
Work yet to be
first-performed (!! please contact the
composer for first performance)
Non-traditional writing, but easy to understand. Mystery,
spelling passages, with superimposed tempi. Lyrical and nostalgic end, during
which the violinist goes away and leaves the hall while still playing.
M.618 : String quintet (2001-2)
[17']
for 2
violins, 2 violas and cello
28(+1)
pages
M.618a :
performing material : 3x13, 12, 14 pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio
excerpts
Commissioned by the Zurich String Quintet, this work
has been first performed during a tour in Finland and Lithuania, in July 2003.
A great movement, slow and oppressive, out of which emerges a kind of running
to the abyss based on an implacable ostinato.
M.627 : Quintet for flute and strings (2002-3) [14']
for
flute, violin, 2 violas and cello
33(+2) pages
M.627a : performing material : 16 pages + 4x12 pages
score excerpt (pdf)
Written
for Alexandre Magnin and the Janacek Quartet, full of dreamy nostalgia. The sonority
of the Quintet is more well-balanced, thanks to the use of a second viola
instead of a second violin. “There are to be found all human feelings in this
Quintet” (A. Magnin).
M.620 : Septet (2001) [18']
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.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 :
Quartet for flute,
violin, viola and cello
Transcription for
violin and organ of the Adagio for violin and piano
In project :
Sonata for violin
and piano
Duo for violin and
viola
Duo for violin and
guitar
All commissions welcome!