Editions Henry Lemoine

For the 25th anniversary concert of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, John Nelson suggested I should write a symphonic tribute, and we mischievously decided Dame Feli...

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...

Orchestration : 2.2.3(clB).3(Cbn) / 4.0.0.0 / 2perc / hp / synth / strings

The Geneva-born composer Michael Jarrell writes music based on the idea of dialogue. Most of his recent works for large ensemble place one or more soloists in relation to a massed orchestral sound, ei...

Antiphysis. The title does not allude to any Dionysian chaos. It is rather quite the contrary. Antiphysis, the rejection of naturalism in any form: ordinary senses, bursts of overwhelming force, diver...

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...

Electic Guitar And Orchestra

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...

Inspired by the famous painting by Gustave Courbet (1866), which had once belonged to Jacques Lacan and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, L'Origine du monde was commissioned by the French government and...