Symétrie

La Légende de saint Nicolas (The Legend of Saint Nicholas) The Legend of Saint Nicholas was published on 1 January 1880 in the first issue of Saint-Nicolas: Journal illustré pour garçons et filles, a...

Recently discovered, Reynaldo Hahn's Sagesse cycle, inspired by Verlaine's collection, is among the works composed during his romantic relationship with Marcel Proust, between 1894 and 1896. He first...

In a tale by Anatole France, the king of Persia wanted to learn 'the universal history of men'. However, his scholars having taken so long in compiling the volumes, he will no longer have the time to...

My liking for Schehadé dates back to when I was very young. One of my aunts acted as secretary to the poet, and in the silken cocoon of those long afternoons when she was typing out the chansonnettes...

Those who feel intimidated by Le Soulier de satin or the Cinq Grandes Odes (and at the same time fascinated—and dwarfed—by their sheer immensity) are surprised, on opening his Phrases pour éventails,...

My liking for Schehadé dates back to when I was very young. One of my aunts acted as secretary to the poet, and in the silken cocoon of those long afternoons when she was typing out the chansonnettes...

Three poems by Charles Juliet were composed in 1999 for baritone Pierre-Yves Pruvot and pianist Charles Bouisset. These poems are taken from Ce pays du silence. (translation Philippe Do)

Missa Deo gratias - for children choir, mixed choir, two organs, two trumpets, two trombones and percussions - was premiered on Sunday, June 25, 2000, at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, in the pres...

In Victor Hugo's tremendous production it seems everyone can find their own path. I was myself fascinated in the sixties by the strange beauty of poems collected by poet André du Bouchet under the ext...

The "Vienese concert" is a cycle of five songs after the Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine and was composed when Olivier Greif was 23 years old. The manuscript provides the exact dates of composit...

Thirty years later, still very present is the memory of that Lausanne studio, crammed by the two pianos and three protagonists hearing for the first time the Petite Cantate while recording it. This is...

When I consider, with hindsight and possibly an element of forgetfulness, the mélodies I have written, I am struck by the fact that, with a few exceptions (Fargue, Verlaine, Schehadé, Cocteau), I have...

A few words about Poil de Carotte; a few words to admit that his experience is very remote from my own… I am lucky in having had a happy childhood, whence the constant and ever-increasing feelings of...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, Ivanhoé belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de R...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia's Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of...

Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens' production, Ode belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome....

Confronting the night is probably the first time a child feels destabilised. The familiar outlines of the bedroom fade away into the darkness, the comforting face of the mother disappears behind the d...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, Sous-Bois (Underwood) belongs with L'Été, Hymne and Dans la tempête to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the compe...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, Pendant la tempête belongs with L'Été, Hymne and Sous-Bois to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the competition fo...

Initially commissioned by the Réunion island territorial collectivity, this 3-movements piece integrated in its first version a Maloya traditional music group in the orchestral writing. In the second...

What can be said about Mauvais cœur—the text, that is—without resorting to paraphrase? It needs to be referred to in the same roundabout way in which it is written. Its mystery is as complete as it ha...

Those who feel intimidated by Le Soulier de satin or the Cinq Grandes Odes (and at the same time fascinated—and dwarfed—by their sheer immensity) are surprised, on opening his Phrases pour éventails,...

Those who feel intimidated by Le Soulier de satin or the Cinq Grandes Odes (and at the same time fascinated—and dwarfed—by their sheer immensity) are surprised, on opening his Phrases pour éventails,...

Apollinaire's poetry—like Verlaine's—is already almost music, so how could it not tempt a musician? But precisely, this attraction should put him on his guard. What is a virtue in poetry can turn agai...

With an ongoing attention, Heather Dohollau's sensitive and mysterious poetry leads us to the very core of things. And Nature brightens up, and here we are at the very location of poetry, of the very...