Bruno Mantovani

Even more than the magnificent melodic lines of rare inventiveness, it's the pianistic accompaniment formulas ("pattern" in English, or "formel" in German) that fascinate me in Schubert's Lieder. Ofte...

METAL takes its title from the names of its two performers and dedicatees, Paul MEyer and Michel PorTAL. This brief divertissement for two clarinets is for the most part homorhythmic, so that contrapu...

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

The title Blue girl with red wagon alludes to a painting by the American Robert Guinan. It was on the occasion of an exhibition of this artist's work at the Villa Medici that I wrote this piece for a...

The violin-cello duo has a mythical place in 20th century music, with some of the pieces devoted to it being absolute masterpieces (I'm thinking of Maurice Ravel's Sonata in particular). Yet, for a co...

Due to the importance of its rich history and the breadth of its repertoire, the string quartet has, over time, become a mythical ensemble, approached by composers with a mixture of enthusiasm and tre...

Due to the importance of its rich history and the breadth of its repertoire, the string quartet has, over time, become a mythical ensemble, approached by composers with a mixture of enthusiasm and tre...

I did not write Little Italy 'for' the viola, but 'against' it! The main issue here is the creation of dense polyphony for an instrument that is generally treated melodically. The illusion of a double...

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

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...

Armenia is an exceptional source for singers and instrumentalists specialised in classical repertoire. It is also a country where traditional music is particularly developed and expressive. The emblem...

The highly virtuoso yet unstable work Bug was given its first performance on 6 February 1999 during Mériel festival by its dedicatee Philippe Soured. It is a musical metaphor of the disarray caused by...