L'être contre le vent (2024)
Program notes
If I come, in ravishing garments,
Unto this brink, without horror, to breath the high foam,
Drink in through my eyes the vast and smiling bitterness,
A being against the wind, in the sharpest of air,
Receiving full in the face a call from the sea;
If the intense soul breathes, and there furiously swells
Sheer wave out of exhausted wave, and if the wave
Booms, to immolate a monster of naivety,
And comes from the high seas to vomit its profoundness
On this rock, from where spurts even to my very thoughts
A dazzling array of frozen glittering sparks,
And over all my skin bites a harsh awakening,
Well, in spite of myself, it needs must be, o Sun,
That I adore my heart where you come yourself to know,
Fresh and powerful return of the delight of birth,
Fire towards whom one elevates a virgin of blood
Under the golden species of a breast's thanksgiving!
Paul Valéry, The Young Fate (1917)
Composer
Year of composition
(2024)
Instrumentation
Improvisation composée. Pour orgue contrôlé par ordinateur et traitement électroacoustique en temps réel
Performances
Season | Date | Concert | Member(s) |
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2023-24 | L'être contre le vent | Matthias Krüger |