Editions Henry Lemoine

Absolute pitch, as compared the relative pitch, is the ability to identify a musical note without any reference. In the Western World, only one person out of 10.000 has an 'active' absolute pitch, mea...

NN: Sophie, how did you approach rhythm when you learned to play piano ?SA: I approached it in the classical way, through music theory. Obviously rhythm is quite abstract and you start to get a feel f...

Recording:1 CD Mirare (MIR159)Claire Désert (piano)Trio Wanderer

Le livre de Jeb is not a direct reference to the Old Testament, as the title might lead one to believe! The piece is a portrait of the dedicatee, pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, whose initials are the b...

Trei II is based on an earlier piece for solo voice which dealt with the phenomena of the 'triplication', of a person ('Trei' means three in old French), and the psychological inability to express one...

A 'trace' is the visible sign that remains of an object now absent, but which was present. The 'écart' (gap) could be seen as the time difference between the first supposed experience of this object a...

I have always felt attracted to dance and often thought I would like to write music for a ballet. By that I mean music specially composed for dance, music that would be written, if possible, in collab...

In their diversity, the first three pieces on this programme, written between 1989 and 1996, display many similarities and qualities that can, moreover, be spotted in Michael Jarrell's work. The attra...

pour violoncelle et 4 groupes instrumentaux