Editions Henry Lemoine

Articulated in four sections, characterized by a long upbeat and a short downbeat for the first two, by an essay into the static, the memory of vestige of movement for the last two, this work recaptur...

In the earliest French poetry there is no rhyme, only assonance. There is assonance between two lines when the last stressed vowel is the same. It is immaterial whether the phenomenes or sounds immedi...

Rather than adopting the well-known practice in certain 16th-century polyphonic music of superimposing temporal planes, this work aims to superimpose or overprint various semantic planes to be found b...

[...] Michael Jarrell also skilfully uses the glittering timbres and harmonic entanglements in Eco II b (a variant of Eco II for voice and ensemble, itself derived from Eco for voice and piano. It elo...

Within Michael Jarrell's oeuvre, Cassandre represents the culmination and synthesis of an initial and extremely fruitful creative period, even if the selection of the work's text was 'dictated' to him...

Music for a While is a direct reference to the air by Henry Purcell, taken from his incidental music to the play 'Oedipus'. I was originally concerned with creating an ephemeral atmosphere which shoul...

The word 'rhizome' is a botanical term referring to the underground travelling stem. From one end grow new branches and new leaves, while the other end withers. As is demonstrated by its etymology, it...

The technique of Bebung (or 'vibrato' in English) was the basis for this piece. Bebung is a type of vibrato particular to the technique and construction of the clavichord. It is obtained by modifying...

Composed in 1995, the same year as Bebung (for clarinet, cello and instrumental ensemble), from which it is drawn, Aus Bebung is a long duo for clarinet and cello. It introduces, in different ways, th...

Taken from From the Leaves of Shadow (1991), a concerto for viola and orchestra in which the solo instrument must face, sometimes in direct opposition, a relatively imposing orchestral mass, ...more l...

Double bass, ensemble and electronic / Score

2/flA&2 picc.2/ca.3/clB.2/Cbn /2.2.2.1/3 perc/hp/cordes (3.2.2.1 a 5 cordes)

...Paysages avec figures absentes... was written for the violinist Isabelle Faust and dedicated to her.In this piece, I wanted to approach writing for violin and ensemble differently, and not reproduc...

I had already discovered texts from Gongora for some time in the bilingual edition of the Dogana, beautifully translated by Philippe Jaccotet. I found those poems were really rich, impossible to reduc...