Jean-Pierre Leguay
In illo tempore
Jean-Pierre Leguay
In illo tempore
- Instrumentation Clarinet
- Composer Jean-Pierre Leguay
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Editions Henry Lemoine
- Order no. LEMO29741
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Description:
Like Madrigal III d'Etoilé, then Aube and Madrigal IX de Granit, In illo tempore is the fruit of a revisiting of another of my works, Allegramente for clarinet and organ in 2019 (commissioned by Radio-France). In Allegramente, I have isolated the clarinet part, removing it from the companionship of the organ, its harmonic colorations, registrations, outbursts, echoes... I eliminated what was obviously only justified by the organ's collaboration, to allow the free specificity of the now autonomous clarinet to express itself fully. What followed was a global inventory of the situation, an inventory of information to be reinterrogated, reorganized, processed and re-composed, in a reinvented approach. The disconnection from the organ gave this rethought approach all the flavor and openness of an original project. From the Allegramente clarinet, I borrowed whole fragments, or smaller ones, sometimes in the form of simple traces, whose perspectives, dialogues, contours, contexts and malleability I re-examined, reworked and rearranged. In response to new calls, the order of these events is often modified: distancing, tightening, inversions; also changes or inflections of tempi, dynamics, articulations - some additions of texts absent from Allegramente. The result is a new work, at once heir to the original - through its borrowings, the nature of the configurations addressed, the proximity of its vocabulary - and glossary of the original deposit, but with its own reoriented objectives. Music that remembers. In illo tempore - "In those days" - unfolds in three complementary episodes, with a choice of two versions of the third: bass clarinet, or, again, Bb clarinet. The beginning of the work and the entire last episode (bass clarinet version) come entirely from Allegramente. Sinuous, the clarinet is in turn feline, spidery, singing, quick, dazzling, in a rhapsodic kaleidoscope ranging from the silky initial pianissimo to the near-silence bordering on breathlessness in the final extreme bass.Jean-Pierre Leguay