Tristan Murail Klaviernoten

Instead of considering the Piano as a percussion instrument (hammers hitting strings) Territoires De l'Oubli emphasises a different idiomatic characteristic of the instrument: a group of strings whose...

Les Travaux et les Jours is connected in a certain way to Territoires de l'Oubli, but listening to the resonances of the piano in a different manner. The work also looks to resolve a formal problem: 9...

Cloches d'Adieu, et un sourire... ('Bells of Farewell, and a Smile...')This unpretentious little piece was written at the request of the German Radio, Deutschlandfunk, in memory of Olivier Messiaen.It...

La Mandragore ('The Mandrake')'Under the gallows grows the mandrake. At midnight, when the moon is full, it is picked beneath the hanged man who swings...'The mandrake: a Mediterranean plant used in w...

Comme un oeil... carries the influence of Messiaen - the piece was written for the entrance exam of the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, therefore before my studies with Messiaen. An allusi...

Estuaire was an attempt at appropriating the serial aesthetic for my own benefit - I was trying to make it say something that it couldn't say: coloured images, gestures, moving shapes. The enterprise...

Le mémorial de la Shoah à Berlin : implacables, des alignements de blocs de béton, tous semblables, tous différents, forment un immense quadrilatère, offrent des milliers de perspectives. Ma pièce ne...

Résurgence (ou La Sorgue à Fontaine de Vaucluse) Longtemps, la Fontaine (c'est-à-dire la source) de Vaucluse (vallis clausa : la vallée close), a été un lieu de légendes et de mystères. Un gigantesque...