Bruno Mantovani: spartiti difficile

The title of this piano work refers to an Ornette Coleman jazz standard, Blue connotation. At the time of composition, the famous saxophonist had already shaken off the shackles of the rigid chorus-ve...

This short piece, which was composed at the request of its dedicatee Anne-Cécile Cuniot (who gave its first performance on 4 August 2001 in Cambridge), is a veritable study on the art of theatre. It i...

Writing for an orchestral instrument and piano is one of the most difficult composition exercises I know of. The natural hierarchy that springs up between the single-line 'soloist' and the 'accompanis...

Il lavoro più recente di questo programma, quello scritto appositamente per Sandro, si intitola Rondes de printemps (!), scritto sotto il sole di Percheron nel maggio 2020 in un mondo in cui un virus...

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...