Editions Henry Lemoine

This short piece, which was composed at the request of its dedicatee Anne-Cécile Cuniot (who gave its first performance on 4 August 2001 in Cambridge), is a veritable study on the art of theatre. It i...

Writing for an orchestral instrument and piano is one of the most difficult composition exercises I know of. The natural hierarchy that springs up between the single-line 'soloist' and the 'accompanis...

Unanswered questions shares the solo flute from Ethers, but the sober, intimist character inferred by its intention - in other times, the piece would have been entitled Tombeau de Dominique Troncin -...

Arrangements: Yvon Rivoal and Georges Lambert

To approach work of chamber music, this collection proposes 4 small pieces conceived as real 'duets' for the first years. These themes, stemming from songs of our childhood, are known but derive in a...

In writing these 40 studies of jazz, I endeavoured to offer fun, easy and progressive tunes to all the musicians who wish to master this style of music as quickly as possible, in particular to the flu...

In writing these 40 studies of jazz, I endeavoured to offer fun, easy and progressive tunes to all the musicians who wish to master this style of music as quickly as possible, in particular to the flu...

Le Fou à pattes bleues (The Blue-Footed Booby)

These short pieces are not transcriptions of traditional melodies *, but rather, pieces springing from the composer' s cultural imagination, enriched by the music from various world cultures he has li...

The Duel with Cudgels (Dos Forasteros) is one of the 'black paintings' by Goya (1820-1823), from the Country-house of the Deaf-Man, which can be viewed at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Goya depicts two...

Audio samples: - De Kaboul, l'afghane, à Ephèse, la grecque, l'ombre de l'Empire Perse- Tango libre à Buenos Aires CD : '...d'Orient en Occident...' Jacques Riou (flute) Reiri Taniguchi Letourmy (pian...