Anspruchsvolle Noten von Editions Henry Lemoine

Selected by Pierre-André Valade

This pièce is a respiration. It is short, with fullness, as a peaceful gesture, something simple and natural. I wish nothing but to hear the flutist love his instrument in it.

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 -...

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

Michael Jarrell's series of 'Assonances', like Berio's 'Sequenze', is basically cyclical, although the pieces are not necessarily written for solo instrument. The composer himself considers them rathe...