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

Concerts par oeuvres

Performances

Season Date Concert Member(s)
2023-24 L'être contre le vent Matthias Krüger