Quatre Visages du temps (Concerto for Organ No. 3)

2017

Organ & orchestra

32 min

World premiere: 18/07/2017, Ishikawa Ongakudo, Kanazawa (Japan) – Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Michiyoshi Inoue (direction).

European premiere: 25/11/2017, Auditorium, Lyon (France) – Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestre national de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin (cond.).
• American premiere: 06/07/2018, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City (USA) – Thierry Escaich (organ), Kansas City Summer Festival Orchestra, Matthew Shepard (cond.).
• Russian premiere: 19/10/2018, Théâtre Mariinski, Saint-Petersburg – Thierry Escaich (organ), The Mariinsky Orchestra, Mischa Damev (cond.).
• German premiere: 25/01/2019, Kulturpalast, Dresde – Olivier Latry (organ), Dresdner Philharmonie, Stépohane Denève (cond.).
• Hungarian premiere: 8/02/2023, Müpa, Budapest – Thierry Escaich (organ), Concerto Budapest, Gábor Káli (cond.).
• Polish premiere: 17/03/2023, NOSPR, Katowice – Karol Mossakowski (organ), NOSPR, Lawrence Foster (cond.).
• Dutch premiere: 10/02/2024, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam – Thierry Escaich (organ), Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Sacha Gotzel (cond.).

• Scoring: 2.2.2.2 – 2.2.2.0 – 2 percussions, strings, solo organ.

• Commissioned by Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Auditorium-Orchestre national de Lyon and American Guild of Organists.

• Publisher: Gérard Billaudot.