The Chants de captivité represent seven ‘visions’ brought back from my visits to Clairvaux prison in 2008 and 2009. Fugitive visions, as Prokofiev would say, but interior, elegiac, between the real and the imaginary: the seven pieces are composed from an ostinato, an implacable figure of time, from which emanates a song, in spite of everything, against all odds.
Recording, extracts: CD “Clairvaux, Or les murs …”, label Aeon AECD 1092, distribution Harmonia Mundi. Régis Pasquier, violin, François-René Duchâble, piano
Difficulty rating: medium to difficult
Instrumental music
Violin and piano
2 minutes
Detailed cycle: parts 1 to 7.
There are 6 parts in preparation for male choir, violin and piano, based on poems by prisoners of the Second World War.
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