Editions Henry Lemoine

[...] (Les Sept paroles) benefits from the most recent developments in vocal synthesis. Instead of computer intervention during the concert, an extensive collection of samples elaborated by the compos...

Sleeping Beauty', one of the most famous of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales, has been the object of numerous analyses, commentaries, and renditions of all sorts. Its motifs, typical of the genre (pact...

This is the second time that I have been asked to pay musical homage to Beethoven: following Riccardo Chailly's request, I incorporated the opening Bb from the Fourth Symphony into an orchestral piece...

Back to painting, with Leonard de Vinci, in ...d'ombres lointaines.... 'You will portray landscapes beneath wind and water, at down and at dusk. You will portray wind over land and over water, you wil...

For the 25th anniversary concert of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, John Nelson suggested I should write a symphonic tribute, and we mischievously decided Dame Feli...

Erstarrte Schatten (Symphonie VI) for orchestra, six solo voices and electronics, completes the triptych begun with Der Geograph (Symphonie IV) for orchestra with principal piano, and Die Tänzerin (Sy...

Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ramification you choose a path, which depends on the whole dynamic of the whole piece. Doing this, you leave quite a lot of ideas and fragments...

Musik existiert eigentlich nur im Konzert. Ein Komponist, der so denkt, steht vermutlich auch dem Abschluss eines eigenen Werkes kritisch gegenüber. Tatsächlich reklamiert Michael Jarrell schon seit d...

Orchestration : 2.2.3(clB).3(Cbn) / 4.0.0.0 / 2perc / hp / synth / strings

The Geneva-born composer Michael Jarrell writes music based on the idea of dialogue. Most of his recent works for large ensemble place one or more soloists in relation to a massed orchestral sound, ei...