Partituren für Orchester

Time Stretch (on Gesualdo) takes as its starting point Gesualdo's S'io non miro non moro from Book 5 of the Madrigals. From this short piece for five voices I derived a harmonic tapestry of 130 chords...

Commissioned by the Pelléas Chamber Orchestra and its conductor Benjamin Levy in 2006, Lumen II is similar to its older sister Lumen, composed 5 years earlier, in its quest for luminosity, but leans i...

Gris Cendre is based on Samuel Beckett's text Lessness, which Ludovic Janvier, with the author's permission, translated as the word 'Sans' (Lessness). No other translation for the word he coined in En...

By the greatest fluke, in 2007 the two principal European orchestral conducting competitions proposed that I write an original work, which would be a requirement for the candidates. Finding the coinci...

Contes cruels for two electric guitars and orchestra is not a double concerto per se: the guitars are stealthy intruders within the orchestra and give the cruel tales an unusual colour. The second gui...

Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3.2.2.1 / 2.1.1.1 / 6perc / 2oM / org élect / synth / guit électr

Since I began writing music, the idea of conflict is one of my primary preoccupations. It has fuelled both my fondness for the concerto genre, and for spatialization. Over the last several years, I ha...

...Le ciel, tout à l'heure encore si limpide, soudain se trouble horriblement...(...The sky, recently so clear, suddenly becomes horribly murky...) On the nature... of musicality Michael Jarrell, born...

This concerns a work particularly representative of a type of painting that flourished in the 10th and 11th centuries during the reign of the Northern Sung Dynasty (960-1127), which brought renewed un...

With his new work Postludium, Bruno Mantovani proposes a prolongation to his opera Akhmatova. With its condensed musical language, and quick rippling gestures, it is not a question of a conclusion, bu...

1 CD Verso (VRS2143) Tesela (30o Aniversario Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi)