Friderici Daniel

Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ramification you choose a path, which depends on the whole dynamic of the whole piece. Doing this, you leave quite a lot of ideas and fragments...

Musik existiert eigentlich nur im Konzert. Ein Komponist, der so denkt, steht vermutlich auch dem Abschluss eines eigenen Werkes kritisch gegenüber. Tatsächlich reklamiert Michael Jarrell schon seit d...

Sillage (Wakes): 'the trace that a ship leaves behind it on the surface of waters,' says the dictionary. But also: 'Part of a fluid (liquid, air) left behind a body in motion - perturbations that occu...

The piano concerto Abschied was a commission of the Salzburg Festival and had its premiere there on the 8th of august 2001. The initial idea was that of a spiral developing almost infinitely. A chain...

The notion of prism applied to a whole instrumental ensemble, which Jarrell makes explicit in the title of his work, condenses and crystallises the hidden side of the solo violin. 'I frequently like t...

His Instantanés are thus his way of saying, like Augustine: 'Present time cries that it cannot last long'. Here, the same figures unravel, each claiming its Present: in the first piece, in the urgency...

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...

...Le ciel, tout à l'heure encore si limpide, soudain se trouble horriblement...(...The sky, recently so clear, suddenly becomes horribly murky...) On the nature... of musicality Michael Jarrell, born...

Arranged by Jessica Greenbaum. For Voice, Piano. Composed 1974. Duration 2:45.

Trei II is based on an earlier piece for solo voice which dealt with the phenomena of the 'triplication', of a person ('Trei' means three in old French), and the psychological inability to express one...

A 'trace' is the visible sign that remains of an object now absent, but which was present. The 'écart' (gap) could be seen as the time difference between the first supposed experience of this object a...

I have always felt attracted to dance and often thought I would like to write music for a ballet. By that I mean music specially composed for dance, music that would be written, if possible, in collab...

In their diversity, the first three pieces on this programme, written between 1989 and 1996, display many similarities and qualities that can, moreover, be spotted in Michael Jarrell's work. The attra...