Évocation III
2008
Organ
5 mn
• World premiere: 27/09/2008, Cathedral, Graz (Austria) – finalists of the Graz International Organ Competition.
• Publisher: Alphonse Leduc.
Composed in 2008 for the final round of the International Organ Competition in Graz, Austria, Évocation III paraphrases the chorale Nun komm der Heiden Heiland. The chorale is equally well-represented in the Protestant hymn tradition as in Catholic Gregorian chant [as the melody is based on the Advent hymn Veni redemptor gentium]. If my first Évocation thrived on reminiscences of baroque music and oriental melismas and the second structured itself on the idea of an obsessive ritual punctuated by fragments of musical personalities scattered like an expressionistic stained-glass window, my third Évocation explores the world of echoes and of canons in all forms. From the beginning of the composition, the chorale phrases, exposed with the flexibility of Gregorian melodies, seem to become entangled; whirling in a kind of echo chamber. These are more crisscrossing, sonorous layers than counterpoint. This resonant, and slightly evanescent, ambiance will later be reprised and orchestrated in Psalmos, my Symphonie Concertante, composed in 2016 for the Cincinnati Orchestra. The central section of the Évocation, more agitated, feverish, sees these compact dialogues between manuals accentuated. The writing, in a myriad of echoes, reaches a climax before subsiding in a harmonically-colored and more serene coda, finally attaining the suspenseful ending.
- Aria (piano)
- Cantus I (cello)
- Cantus II (harp)
- Cantus III (oboe)
- City Lights (clarinet or saxophone)
- Étude flash-back (piano)
- Étude jazz (piano)
- Études baroques (piano)
- Études impressionnistes (piano)
- Jeux de doubles (piano)
- Les Litanies de l'ombre (piano)
- Lutte (saxophone)
- Nun komm (violin)
- Prélude et Fugue (accordion)
- Vers les cimes
- Après l’Aurore
- Capriccios (clarinet/accordion)
- Cérémonial
- Choral’s Dream
- Comme l’écho d’une fantaisie
- Ground I
- Ground II
- Ground III
- Ground IV
- Ground V
- Ground VI
- Introït à l’Office des ténèbres
- Le Bal
- Lettres mêlées
- 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 guitar and string orchestra
- Concerto for Flute 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