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Vents et lyres

(2024-25)

recorder solo (different recorders and in addition passages for mezzo soprano voice), 3(II=alto, III=picc)23(III=bcl)2-2211-02-hp-strings

Duration: 21'

Vents et lyres (“Winds and Lyres”)

commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,  Lucie Horsch (with support from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust) and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

premiere October 15, 2025, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Lucie Horsch and the RCO conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev

published by Fennica Gehrman

  1. Les récifs, les bacchantes

  2. Autrefois (La lyre d’Orphée par Jean-François Dandrieu)

  3. La lyre d’Orphée

Text by Sappho (a fragment in the 1st movement) and Louise Ackermann (the poem La lyre d’Orphée in 2. and 3. movement)