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The title Attracteurs étranges ('Strange Attractors') alludes to that new universe of mathematics, the 'chaotic' world where one regroups fractals, the study of turbulence or population evolution. Cer...

Selected by Pierre-André Valade

We have chosen to present two versions of this score: one version for flute and harp, which is faithful to Ravi Shankar's manuscript, and this version, for flute and guitar as arranged by Valade and A...

This pièce is a respiration. It is short, with fullness, as a peaceful gesture, something simple and natural. I wish nothing but to hear the flutist love his instrument in it.

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...

Unanswered questions shares the solo flute from Ethers, but the sober, intimist character inferred by its intention - in other times, the piece would have been entitled Tombeau de Dominique Troncin -...

Le Fou à pattes bleues (The Blue-Footed Booby)

Michael Jarrell's series of 'Assonances', like Berio's 'Sequenze', is basically cyclical, although the pieces are not necessarily written for solo instrument. The composer himself considers them rathe...

Jean-Marc Singier conceived his Bouts-rimés burinés in acknowledgement to his former composition teacher. They start off as brief, separate motifs which are altered and then transformed as variations...