L’Esprit de l’Eau – Jean-Marie Machado

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L’Esprit de l’Eau – Jean-Marie Machado

Double concerto for piano, tuba and symphony orchestra.

Composition in five movements:
– Larmes éveil du fleuve céleste
– Brume invisible
– Danse sur un jardin de givre
– Feuilles de neige en équilibre
– Saga des vagues

Duration 25mn

Premiere: September 29, 2017 by Jean-Marie Machado, François Thuillier and the Orchestre National d’Ile de France.

Woodwinds:
Two flutes in C (with the possibility of an alto flute and a piccolo flute)
One oboe
One English horn
Two clarinets in Bb (with the possibility of a bass clarinet)
Two bassoons

Brass instruments:
Two horns in F
One trumpet in Bb
One flugelhorn in Bb
One trombone

Strings:
Violins 1 per 6
Violins 2 per 6
Violas per 4
Cellos per 4
Double basses per 2

Percussions:
( 3 people )
Glockenspiel
Cymbals / Tam / Gong and others
Timpani / and ethno set drums*
( *set created with ethnic percussion on a stand played with mallets )
1 Vibraphone
1 Marimba
1 xylophone