Michael Jarrell

I had already discovered texts from Gongora for some time in the bilingual edition of the Dogana, beautifully translated by Philippe Jaccotet. I found those poems were really rich, impossible to reduc...

...mais les images restent... is taken from the piano concerto Abschied, premiered at the Salzbourg festival in August 2001. This concerto is strongly associated with the memory and history of my fath...

Propos de Michael Jarrell recueillis par Stéphane Friederich "Quelle est la genèse de la partition ?" Au départ, je n'avais pas l'idée de composer une oeuvre en six parties plus ou moins brèves. J'ai...

Jarrell's music never ceases to confront the question of time. To stop on a chosen page, skip several lines, return, dream, reflect... It is an act of concentration in the present that makes what was...

All these hieroglyphs drawn from right to left in mirror-fashion, broken up by an attempt to describe and understand a world laden with mystery and the unknown, are exceptional in that they all emanat...

The AMS who commissioned this piece requested that it should have some relation with the work of Bach. The various 'conversions' to be found in this piece are applied to original Bach material taken f...

Rather than adopting the well-known practice in certain 16th-century polyphonic music of superimposing temporal planes, this work aims to superimpose or overprint various semantic planes to be found b...

A resurgence is a reappearance in the form of a spring that emerges from the ground, such as the reappearance of an underground water table. It was not difficult to find a title, because when I set to...

Amplificated flute bass/doublebass and 4 percussions / Score

Within Michael Jarrell's oeuvre, Cassandre represents the culmination and synthesis of an initial and extremely fruitful creative period, even if the selection of the work's text was ''dictated'' to h...

It was after reading the brief testimony reproduced below, that I had the idea of writing Mémoires. This rather private memory reflects a completely different reality from that found in history books....