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WORKS FOR /
WITH VIOLIN(S)
(catalogue from August
31st, 2010)
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LIST
Concertos – works
for solo violin
Duos – Trios – Quartets – Quintets – Septet
M.544 : Concerto n.1 (1996) [13']
for violin and orchestra
(2*-2*-2*-2* 2-0-0-0 Strings)
Full score: 20 (+4) pages
Reduction violin and piano: 11 (+1) pages
Solo violin part: 5 (+1) pages
Work yet to be
first-performed (!! please
contact the composer for first performance)
In two parts, the first one desolated and tragic, with
the cadenza almost at the beginning of the work, and the second one meditating and
profound, going away at the end towards high sounds (soloist part), towards
deep sounds (orchestra), and towards silence.
M.579 : Concerto n.2 (1998) [19’]
for violin and string
orchestra (6-6-4-4-1/ 2)
M.579: Full score: 58 (+3) pages
M.579a: Reduction with piano: 32 (+2) pages
Solo violin part: 12 (+2) pages
Performing material to be asked from the composer.
score excerpt (pdf)
First movement virtuoso
and passionate, the second calm and meditative, the third energetic. The cadenza, particularly expressive, is to be found at the end of the
second movement. First performance in Budapest, conducted by Tibor Varga, with Isabelle Lambelet as soloist.
M.607 : Concerto n.3 (1999) [20']
for violin and full orchestra
(3**-3*-3*-3* 4-3-3-1 T.-t.
Strings)
M.607: Full score: 51 (+2) pages
M.607a: Reduction with piano: 43 (+2) pages
Solo violin part: 17 (+1) pages
Performing material to be asked from the composer.
Presentation, score excerpts and audio
recording
In two parts. The first virtuoso and dramatic,
the second elegiac, tristamente semplice. Ordered by the Radio
Suisse Romande - Espace 2, compulsory piece of the International
Violin Competition Tibor Varga
- 2000. First performed by Ryoko
Yano, winner of the interpretation prize and 1st prize of the
Competition, and the Chamber Orchestra of Lithuania, conducted by Gilbert Varga.
M.629 : Double Concerto for pipa, violin and
orchestra (2002-5) [21']
(2*-2*-2*-2* 2-0-0-0 2Perc.
Strings)
64 (+6) pages
Pipa and violin part : 40 (+4) pages
Performing material to be
asked from the composer.
To be first performed soon !
Work written for the famous pipa
(chinese lute) player Yang
Jing, and the violinist Boris Livschitz. In three movements :
the first one alternates mysterious and energetic passages, the second one is
meditative. The third, Eruptivo, contains an
important cadenza for the soloists.
M.481 : Concerto for 15 soloist strings (1994) [20']
for 8 violins, 3 violas, 3
cellos and double bass
103 (+1) pages
Performing material to be asked from the composer.
Presentation, score excerpt and
audio recording
Each instrumentalist is at the same time soloist,
chamber musician and member of the orchestra. 3 movements: passionate, elegiac,
and the third more rhythmical, with successive cadenzas for each of the 15
soloists. First performed during the opening concert of the Tibor Varga Festival 1994, by the
members of the Festival Orchestra, conducted by Tibor
Varga.
M.497 : Fantasia (1994-5) [10']
for solo violin
8
(+1) pages
Very virtuoso work in its
middle part (fantastico), very expressive
starting and ending. Contains a fugue on the name of
BACH. Ordered by the Radio Suisse Romande - Espace 2, compulsory piece of the international violin
competition Tibor Varga -
1995.
M.585 : Soliloque (1998) [6']
for solo violin
2 (+1) pages
score excerpt (pdf)
Work of
great inner contemplation, between melancholy and serenity. First
performance in Morgins, 2002, by Jan Dobrzelewski,
during the festival “Flâneries Musicales de Champéry”.
M.633 : Complainte (2003)
[6']
for solo violin
5 (+2) pages
Presentation, score excerpt
and audio excerpts
Written at the request of Shlomo Mintz to be the compulsory piece of the International Violin
Competition of Sion (2003). Between rage and resignation, lamentation and anger.
M.655 : Petite Suite de
Danses (2006-7) [8’]
for violin and piano
22 (+3) pages with violin part : 10 pages
This little
dance suite consists of four movements (Polka, Dwarves Gallop, Totentanz - Dance of Death - and Dance of the wild man). It
is a transcription of four of the Swiss Dances,
originally written for four handed piano.
M.630 : Reflets (2003-4) [12']
for violin and percussion (1
percussionist)
22 (+4) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpt
Violin
and percussion give answer to one another, imitate, call, influence, attract or
repulse each other, as reflections of one another. The percussion part requires
a lot of timbres and ways of playing.
M.652 : Émergences (2006) [7']
for violin and accordion
10 (+3) pages
CD recording
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpt
This work has been written for Marianne Piketty and
Pascal Contet, on request of the Festival des
Musicales d’Auberive (France). It is a little
enigmatic work, basing itself on one hand on threatening, or even stormy
clusters, and on impassive tritones, and, on the
other hand, on lyrical of dreamy passages. The title can evoke the emergence of
forces of the Subconscious, the emergence of physical or meteorological
phenomena, or also the emergence of sonorous events, for instance the
pianissimo apparition of the violin under a forte of the accordion.
M.537 : Duo (1996) [9']
for violin and cello
10 (+1) pages
Energetic work. Free polyphony and imitation techniques at the service of a work full
of life and invention.
M.540 : Duo (1996) [11']
for violin and alto saxophone
13 (+1) pages
score excerpt (pdf)
Well level-headed parts, to avoid the saxophone
covering the violin. 4 movements: appassionato, dreamy, energico
and inner. An order of the Jeunesses
Musicales of Fribourg.
M.473 : Adagio (1993) [5']
for violin and piano
8 (+1) pages with violin part : 3 pages
Work of classical aspect, of bright simplicity. Very melodious violin part.
M.473b : Adagio (1993) [5']
for violin and organ
6 (+1) pages with violin part :
3 pages
Transcribed from the Adagio for violin and piano. Work of classical aspect, of bright simplicity. Very
melodious violin part.
M.520 : Trio (1995-6) [17']
for violin, cello and piano
35 (+1) pages ; violin and cello parts : 20 (+1)
pages – 20 (+1) pages
Presentation, score excerpts and audio excerpts
Tragic work,
with tensed climates, sometimes mysterious, even terrifying, a scherzo furioso and a more calm
ending. Commission of the Animae
Trio, which first performed it in Fribourg and at the Melos-Ethos Festival of
Bratislava.
M.552 : String trio (1997-8) [18’]
for violin, viola and
violoncello
26 (+2) pages
M.552a: performing material : 9 (+2), 10 (+1),
11 (+1) pages
Presentation, score excerpts and audio excerpts
Meditating work. The central part alternates growls of revolt and of resignation, even
grief. The appeased end moves off to inner silence. Commission
of Pro Helvetia for the Zurich String Trio, which first performed it during
August 2000 on the occasion of a tour in India and Sri Lanka.
M.587 : String quartet n.1 (1998-9) [17’]
for 2 violins, viola and
violoncello
12 (+1) pages
M.587a: performing material : 10 (+1), 3x8 (+1)
pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpts
Ordered for the Talich Quartet, which has
declared to have “enjoyed playing this lovely, thoughtful piece”. Single slow
movement of a distress as extreme as its expressive density. Feeling of resignation.
M.660 : Cyprès (2007) [3’20]
for string quartet (2 violins,
viola and violoncello)
5 (+2) pages
M.660a :
performing material : 4x2 (+1) pages
This
short work has been written on the occasion of the first performance of the
complete song cycle « Cypresses » by Dvorak, out of which Dvorak
himself had transcribed for string quartet 12 of the songs. The work has a
nostalgic character, and uses the melodic cells taken from the 15th
song of the cycle, which Dvorak hasn’t transcribed for quartet.
M.484 : Exils
(1994/7) [9']
for violin, cello and 2
percussionists
17 (+3) pages
Work yet to be
first-performed (!! please
contact the composer for first performance)
Non-traditional writing,
but easy to understand. Mystery, spelling passages, with superimposed tempi. Lyrical and nostalgic end, during which the violinist goes away and
leaves the hall while still playing.
M.675 : Offrande
Funèbre en hommage à Bach (2010) [5']
für Flöte, Geige, Cello und Orgel
10 (+2) Seiten
M.675a : Stimmen : 3 x 3 (+1) Seiten
Die Offrande Funèbre en hommage à Bach
(Traueropfer in Andenken an Bach) basiert sich auf 4 Themen :
ein klagendes, omnipräsentes Motiv ; das Thema des Musikalischen Opfers selbst
; ein lyrisches Thema, zuerst an der Flöte gespielt ; zuletzt, ein
chromatisches Bass-Ostinato, mal runtergehend, mal steigend. Diese vier Themen vermischen sich zunehmend, während die Orgel den Anfang
des „Ricercar a 3“ spielt. Das Ricercar löst sich nach dem Eintritt seiner 3.
Stimme allmählich auf. Uraufgeführt durch dem Auftraggeber, das Schweizer
Kammerensemble, am 20. August 2010 in Lenzburg.
M.618 : String quintet (2001-2) [17']
for 2 violins, 2 violas and
cello
28 (+1) pages
M.618a :
performing material : 3x13, 12, 14 pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpts
Commissioned by the Zurich String Quintet, this work
has been first performed during a tour in Finland and Lithuania, in July 2003.
A great movement, slow and oppressive, out of which
emerges a kind of running to the abyss based on an implacable ostinato.
M.627 : Quintet for flute and strings (2002-3) [14']
for flute, violin, 2 violas
and cello
33
(+2) pages
M.627a :
performing material :
16 pages + 4x12 pages
score excerpt (pdf)
Written for Alexandre Magnin and the Janacek
Quartet, full of dreamy nostalgia. The sonority of the Quintet is more
well-balanced, thanks to the use of a second viola instead of a second violin.
“There are to be found all human feelings in this Quintet” (A. Magnin).
M.668 : Quintet for clarinet and strings (2008) [12']
for clarinet, 2 violins,
viola and cello
37
(+2) pages
M.668a:
performing material : 10
(+1) pages – 10 (+1) pages – 12 (+1) pages – 11 (+1) pages – 11 (+1) pages
Commissioned by the Davos
Festival, first performed 2008 by Shirley Brill, clarinet, and the Terpsycordes Quartet. This work is built on several short cells,
developed, mixed and transmuted during the whole work. The counterpointed work
plays with the pitches (also in the extremes) and the oppositions between
diaphanous passages, nostalgic melodies, and more clashed and violent moments,
the whole generating progressively a mixing of the themes, of the melodic lines
and rhythms.
M.620 : Septet (2001) [18']
41
(+3) pages
M.620a :
performing material : 25
(+2) pages – 25 (+2) pages – 25 (+2) pages – 27 (+2) pages – 26 (+2) pages – 27
(+2) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpts
This
septet has been especially written for the formation of the Mittelland
Ensemble. Five movements linked together, mixing disquieting, tragic,
mysterious or melancholic aspects.
M.654 : Le Tombeau de Ravel
(2006) [6']
for tenor saxophone, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, guitar and percussion
14 (+5) pages
M.654a : performing
material : 2 (+2) pages – 2 (+2) pages – 3
(+2) pages – 3 (+2) pages – 2 (+3) pages
Presentation, score excerpt and audio excerpts
This work has been written for a project of the Compagnie
CH.AU, for which six composers have written one movement each, corresponding to
one of the parts of the Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel.
This piece inspires itself of the Menuet of the Tombeau de Couperin, and has principally an elegiac, tender
and nostalgic character. It has also been instrumented for a chamber orchestra.
In project :
Sonata
for violin and piano
Duo for
violin and viola
Duo for
violin and guitar
All commissions welcome!