Work sketched out during my musical composition residency at Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto. Excerpts from Tôge Sankichi’s famous Poèmes de la bombe atomique are set against Paul Celan’s no less famous poem Engführung.
The score remains in draft form.
Difficulty rating: difficult
Paul Celan, Tôge Sankichi
French, German, Japanese
solo violin, lyric soprano, contralto, mixed vocal ensemble, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 3 bassoons, set of chromatic gongs, tam-tam, bass drum, accordion, cymbalum, violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello and double bass
Duration : between 30 and 40 minutes