Voir, Ensemble, Maintenant : These three cantatas come together first of all through the evocation of nature, which is an essential theme in Guillevic’s work, with a characteristic way of identifying with flowers, rocks, or even with blackbirds or butterflies, which is both troubling and marvellous. As if to find an original fusion with the world, without it being a question of forgetting oneself.
CD ‘Voir, Ensemble, Maintenant’ September 2012, Label Inconnu LI 12-0301, distribution Codæx
Instrumental ensemble brought together by the city of Belley, conducted by Benoît Fromanger.
(This work was first recorded on the CD “Echos d’artistes”, Lyrinx Lyr 2250, ensemble Télémaque conducted by Raoul Lay).
Difficulty rating: difficult
Eugène Guillevic (poems from several collections)
French
Soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and string trio (violin, viola, cello)
15 minutes approx.
10 poems linked in a cycle: Habitations, Voir, Ballet, Couchant, Où, La légende, Ouverture, Chanson, Tenir, Battement
First part of the Voir, Ensemble, Maintenant triptych