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BERCEUSE (lullaby) for string quartet

Short piece for students at the end of the first year of instrument.

(semi-tone 2d/3d & 1st/2d fingers)

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SUITE FOR VIOLIN SOLO. The style is contemporary, but in the prolongation of Eugène Ysaÿe's spirit, it is: writing first for the violin, and through the violin, and with the unique goal of moving.

1st movement: lento, espressivo, and sonorous, based on the quotation of an original poem:

"…In the heart of my silence

I seek the echo of your smile…"

A continual quarry, interrupted with silences, interrogations…

2d movement: tormented, brutal, here also on an original quotation:

"… my only star

my only light

In this Ocean where I navigate,

In this storm

my unique compas,

that's the light of your glance…"

From the greatest brutality, slowly merges a single note : an "A" at diverse hights, bringing slowly calm and peace.

3d movement: Written on a sentence in Wallony dialect, quoted by Ysaÿe in his "Chant d'hiver".

"…Inspite of all, it seems that I can perceive

the song from our water,

quivering under the ice."

From a dust of small, short, trebble notes, sharp like those cristals of iced snow when they hit the face, sometime shortly interrupted to listen to that A in harmonics, merge slowly the fragments of a melody, sensual and painful…

POEM FOR 2 VIOLINS : the style is the same as in the preceeding piece. The two violins taking part equally in the dialog. Each of the 2 movements has as a title, a quotation, a piece of a sentence, heard or read once as a teenager, and burried then in the memory… original title was actually : Phrases…

First movement: "…the world is a desert!"

On long holded double-stops, exchanged between first and second violin, phrases, exclamations, interrogations spout out, melodic fragments, tender or passionate…

Second movement: "…it's born in us, and one must receive it with gratitude…"

From nothing, a haze of small short notes, on aleatory rythms (but within strictly established rules) raises slowly, changes, metamorphoses into a song, a melodic line rolling and unrolling itself, from one violin to the other, in a sort of voluptuous game, advancing more and more toward expression and tenderness, and in the same time enlarging the ambitus, finaly returning to nothing.

NB: In the joint preview, the general structure of the second movement has been a little (very little) adapted to be used as support for one of the poems from « Drôle de planète », and thus, doesn't follow exactly the rules given for the execution of it.

CHANSON TRISTE

(Dedicated to my daughter, Aurore)

Short and easy concert piece (violin & harp or piano) for students in their 3d or 4th year of instrument.