Ensembles

The harmonic language of Michael Jarrell's works is marked by a subtle sounding out of intervallic relationships: chords derive their characteristics from the specific arrangement of their intervals....

The basic idea for the opening of the work was to start with a short and powerful 'primal explosion' that would reappear throughout the piece in different forms, more or less regularly. This 'art of p...

Art d'écho (identical in French pronunciation to the term 'Art deco') was composed in July 1998 at the request of Charles Frey, the artistic director of the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, to whom the wor...

Besetzung: Flutes - Hautbois - Clarinettes - Saxophones Alto + Tenor - Cors - Trompettes - Trombones - Percussion - Piano - Violons - Altos - Violoncelles - Contrebasses

Recordings:1 CD Accord (461 947-2)Hugues Dufourt: La Maison du Sourd - Lucifer d'après PollockOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, P.-Y. Artaud, E. Pomarico1 CD Timpani (1C1195)Hugues Dufourt: Lu...

Par-delà, a work for symphonic orchestra (without oboe or viola) composed in 1994, is the nodal point of Lévinas' creation. Indeed, it does make use of preceding 'studies': the joint bells and the mic...

Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3(2picc).3(1ca).3(clB).3(Cbn) / 4.3.3.1 / pno / cel / hp / timb / 3perc / 14.12.10.8.6

What I sought in all musical expression through the sublimation of the instrumental gesture (and its reverse) is found, taken to its poetic extreme of contradiction in the orchestra: the orchestra is...

Vermeer's Woman in blue reading a letter [La Liseuse] is not only a depiction of life in Holland in the 17th century, but also has deeply metaphysical elements in it - a tribute to inner nature, memor...

In the mind of a composer, the concept of method is pivotal. At the beginning of this work, an opening figure provides the initial presentation of musical material that will, after a pause, be taken u...

What fascinates me in Schubert's lieder, more even than the unusually creative melodic lines, is the number of piano accompaniment patterns (or Formel in German). These repetitive elements often conve...