Richard Sakal

Double bass, ensemble and electronic / Score

2/flA&2 picc.2/ca.3/clB.2/Cbn /2.2.2.1/3 perc/hp/cordes (3.2.2.1 a 5 cordes)

...Paysages avec figures absentes... was written for the violinist Isabelle Faust and dedicated to her.In this piece, I wanted to approach writing for violin and ensemble differently, and not reproduc...

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...

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 him...

...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...