Magic Circus
2004
Wind octet
11 mn
• World premiere: 01/06/2005, Conservatoire,
• Publisher: Gérard Billaudot.
• Scoring: 2 oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns.
• Commissioned by Orchestre national de Lille.
Tightrope walkers, sad clowns, hybrid and uproarious brass bands: it is in this circus decor that this piece for wind octet evolves. But a Felliniesque circus, a circus where the most unbridled vitality suddenly descends into enigma, where the apparent vulgarity runs alongside underlying drama, where dreams are pierced with bursts of laughter.
Absurd waltz themes, memories of old melodies from La strada or other films… Burlesque and offbeat mechanics, so many characters bumping into each other on several levels, at times in several tempi to call to mind this joyfully crepuscular twirling.
Thierry Escaich
Translation: Eileen-Rose McFadden
- Après l’Aurore
- Cérémonial
- Choral’s Dream
- Comme l’écho d’une fantaisie
- Ground I
- Ground II
- Ground III
- Ground IV
- Ground V
- Ground VI
- Lettres mêlées
- Introït à l’Office des ténèbres
- Le Bal
- Psalmodie à l’Office des ténèbres
- Scènes de bal
- Scènes d’enfant au crépuscule
- Short Stories
- Sopra la Folia
- Spring’s Dance
- Tango virtuoso (arr. for clarinets)
- Tango virtuoso
- Tanz-Fantasie trp & organ
- Tanz-Fantasie trp & piano
- Trio américain (“Suppliques”)
- Trois Intermezzi
- Variations gothiques
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
- Concerto for Organ No. 1
- Concerto for Organ No. 2
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- Concerto for Violin, Oboe and Orchestra
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
- Élégie
- Fantaisie concertante
- La Nuit des Chants (Concerto for viola)
- Le Chant des ténèbres (clar. & strings)
- Le Chant des ténèbres (solo sax & 12 sax)
- Miroir d’ombres
- Quatre Visages du temps (Concerto for Organ No. 3)
- Résurgences
- Scherzo fantasque