Editions Henry Lemoine

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...

Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3(2picc).3(1ca).3(clB).3(Cbn) / 4.3.3.1 / pno / cel / hp / timb / 3perc / 14.12.10.8.6

What I sought in all musical expression through the sublimation of the instrumental gesture (and its reverse) is found, taken to its poetic extreme of contradiction in the orchestra: the orchestra is...

Vermeer's Woman in blue reading a letter [La Liseuse] is not only a depiction of life in Holland in the 17th century, but also has deeply metaphysical elements in it - a tribute to inner nature, memor...

In the mind of a composer, the concept of method is pivotal. At the beginning of this work, an opening figure provides the initial presentation of musical material that will, after a pause, be taken u...

What fascinates me in Schubert's lieder, more even than the unusually creative melodic lines, is the number of piano accompaniment patterns (or Formel in German). These repetitive elements often conve...

Orchestra. Instrumentation: 2(2picc&flA&flB).1(ca).2(2clB).1(Cbn) / 1.2(trpB).2(trbA).0 / 2perc / 2pno / acdn / hp / 3.2.2.1(à 5 cordes)

Does speed in music help precision? Does it sweep away any question? Would it not be akin to a silence resulting from centrifugal forces? I have long wondered whether speed participated in erasure or...

To begin with: a desire for lightness, flexibility, versatility, the preoccupation with avoiding grandiloquence and rhetorical effects as much as possible.Few violent and forthright contours, but rath...

It is at once a continuation of Murail's previous explorations and a radically new departure. Whereas most of his previous music relied essentially on continuous transformation of the material, Time a...

Sables returns to certain preoccupations addressed in Altitude 8000, and takes them further: an absence of punctual events (no percussive sounds), extreme continuity (no silence, aside from the beginn...