Editions Henry Lemoine

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...

Art d'écho (identical in French pronunciation to the term 'Art deco') was composed in July 1998 at the request of Charles Frey, the artistic director of the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, to whom the wor...

Besetzung: Flutes - Hautbois - Clarinettes - Saxophones Alto + Tenor - Cors - Trompettes - Trombones - Percussion - Piano - Violons - Altos - Violoncelles - Contrebasses

Recordings:1 CD Accord (461 947-2)Hugues Dufourt: La Maison du Sourd - Lucifer d'après PollockOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, P.-Y. Artaud, E. Pomarico1 CD Timpani (1C1195)Hugues Dufourt: Lu...

Par-delà, a work for symphonic orchestra (without oboe or viola) composed in 1994, is the nodal point of Lévinas' creation. Indeed, it does make use of preceding 'studies': the joint bells and the mic...