(A) Op.48 Septembre

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Septembre Op.48 (2019)

September Op.48 was played by the Ensemble Diachronie
at the Phénix center in Fribourg in Switzerland on October 30, 2021

Go to the site of the Diachronie Ensemble : diachronie.ch

September was written between September 13th and September 30th, 2019. It consists of 4 parts. Besides the imposed choice of instrumentation, I remained quite minimalist concerning the percussion. I had no preconceived plan before I started. The initial piano chord in the first part generated most of the ideas for the piece. Nevertheless, very quickly, it occurred to me that the silences would become an important element, to varying degrees, throughout the 4 parts of the composition. These silences would punctuate moments of tension and horizontal and vertical retention. The composition followed a fairly natural flow, undergoing very little change once the end point was set. At one point I had the wish to change the original order of the parts for reasons of balance, but after listening several times, this idea quickly turned out to be unnatural. It seemed clear in my mind that each movement had lead the next one.

flute (alto flute, piccolo), Bb clarinet, percussion ( tom, wood-block, cowbell, xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel), piano, violin, violoncello
timing : 13'00''

For the concert on october 30, 2021
The Ensemble Diachronie was composed of :

Kuo Yu-Hsuan : flute, alto flute, piccolo,
Katharina Oberson : Bb clarinet
Luca Musy : percussion
Etienne Murith : piano
Cyrille Pürro : violin
Guillaume Bouillon : violoncello

Olivier Murith : conductor