Thierry Pécou

Quando arrivi a un fiume... metti la mano nel suo ventre, senti l'energia, accarezza la sua potenza, recita la poesia dell'autrice americana Laura Tohe, cresciuta nella tradizione Navajo. Thierry Péoc...

Although the composer Thierry Pécou mostly does without experimental playing techniques, an exemplary modern harp sound emerges from among soft whispering sounds and massive chord clusters. Tone colou...

Like the work Les effets du jour (The Effects of Light), also the setting of a poem by Paul de Brancion, this composition identifies the ecological catastrophes confronting human beings as a result of...

This work was commissioned by the Latvian choir Kamer within the framework of a large-scale project centered round the topic 'the sun'. A poem by Paul de Brancion is interspersed with expressions and...

Dieses Stück, das auf einem Gedicht der Dichterin Léna Monnerot basiert, ist das Geschenk eines 22-jährigen verliebten Komponisten an seine Freundin. Offrande wurde 1988 in der Kathedrale von Bayeux v...

Thierry Pécous Chorwerk lehnt sich sich an das bekannte französische Kinderlied 'Ne pleure pas Jeannette' [Weine nicht, Jeannette] an. Obwohl die Harmonik erweitert und die Stimmen streckenweise wie I...

These seven settings for piano solo, like the original chamber music cycle, are evocative of the unscrupulous period of the slave trade: 'For me, the meaning of this work lies in the lasting remembran...

3 flauti e sequenze registrate.

'My fascination with the culture of the Navajo Native Americans and their healing ceremonies based on harmony and beauty motivated me to listen to ethnographic recordings of their songs, which are cus...

'My fascination with the culture of the Navajo Native Americans and their healing ceremonies based on harmony and beauty motivated me to listen to ethnographic recordings of their songs, which are cus...

The work is based on a verse from the tragedy The Trojan Women by Euripides: 'Beneath the wing of the wind, our vanquished country will be extinguished and will perish.' Of central importance is the s...

Dieses Werk in zwei Sätzen ist von der mexikanischen Marimba-Tradition inspiriert. Von Veracruz bis San Cristobal de la Casas ist mir diese fröhliche oder auch melancholische, jedoch immer festliche M...

This work is part of a cycle of five short pieces for a single instrument and piano, focused on the five ages in the cosmogony of Ancient Mexican civilisation. The peoples of the Mexican highlands bel...

Le Jardin de lumière wurde für Catherine Brisset und ihr ungewöhnliches Instrument, die Cristal Baschet, geschrieben. Dieses Instrument, eine Art erweitere Glasharmonika, wurde von den Gebrüdern Basch...

This composition is a response to the Trío Arbós enticing commission to include me in a series of works for piano trio by various composers that pay tribute to and enter into dialogue with the flamenc...

While Western polyphonic music achieved its pinnacle in the fugue, rhythmic polyphony of great complexity evolved in Cuba. It is particularly the 'batá' (drumming music originating in the Afro-Cuban '...

Als Auftragswerk für das Kronos Quartet entstanden, schildert diese Komposition facettenreich den Glanz des alten Ägyptens: Lyrisch-fließende Motive verbinden orientalische Melismen und majestätische...

Although the composer Thierry Pécou mostly does without experimental playing techniques, an exemplary modern harp sound emerges from among soft whispering sounds and massive chord clusters. Tone colou...