Lumières Cendrées – Alain Louvier
650,00€
Chamber music for 15 players
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Lumières Cendrées – Alain Louvier
Chamber music for 15 players
Premiere by the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain on July 29, 2021, Festival Messiaen.
Orchestra score and parts in digital version on sale.
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Author’s note
Written at the request of Bruno Mantovani for the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Lumières Cendrées takes up most of my research, deepened since the 1970s, first of all a personal micro-tonal language based on modal scales in quarter tones.
With time, a need for synthesis appears little by little, clearly expressed in this work. But Lumières Cendrées also has an autobiographical aspect, as the dedication attests:
.. to all the people who have illuminated my life and are now only ashes…
Beyond the allusion to the Moon, ash-colored, but discreetly illuminated by the Earth (astronomical sense of ashen light), this title, in the plural, will evoke the wonder of a child musician, or later dazzlements, forever imprinted in my memory.
I did not personally know all these beings-become-ashes…some of them passed on to me their knowledge, their science, their sounds…with others of these beings, I lived.
Many of them enlightened me, very young, with their music, their thoughts, their poetry.
Thus Beethoven willingly lent me three notes to begin my entry into Nature… and very quickly, adding a sharp, I met Bartok, Grieg, Couperin or Janacek, depending on the wind direction…
… éveil….d’impressions agréables…en arrivant à la campagne…ramages secrets…. (ces mots, ces courtes phrases, émaillant la partition, sont destinées à éclairer la poétique, donc l’interprétation) Les 24 quarts de ton arrivent assez vite dans le paysage, avec un alphabet personnel les reliant aux 26 lettres… Voilà pour le code secret….d’autres phrases sont plus explicites, évoquant des épisodes précis :
…Rome, bird-mystery….fugue in flashes…ancient birds…iridescent light…wandering ladders… …illuminated narrative…Licht…light…luce….lux…Liebe…the seven colors of the rising sun…
La lumière, présente dans beaucoup de mes titres, revêt ici des couleurs changeantes, comme la séduction précède le gris-cendre qui la recouvre.
Hommage aux « accords-couleurs » de mon maître Messiaen, que j’ose iriser de mon mode imparfait (entre majeur et mineur) ; celui de Canto di Natale (1976), ou d’Anneaux de Lumière (1983) où trônent deux pianos décalés d’un quart de ton, disposés comme un grand insecte. Unknown light until then, diffracting to infinity the resonances of the keyboards… total illumination that I still feel… follies campanaries…
…. glare…rings of light…fusion…light spectrum…dust of ants…
Coming from the heights and the depths, a Song of Ashes emerges and meanders in the middle of furtive, accelerated, agglomerated, desperate plainsongs… secretly transforming the ancestral Latin into an improbable melody…
… chant des Cendres…libera me Domine…cris ultimes…nuage de cendres…
Enfin la harpe, jusqu’alors presque muette, descend comme une caresse, puis avec puissance, accordée en tempérament heptaïque, ne gardant de l’orchestre que le LA… cette égalité parfaite entre les sept notes annonce une nouvelle musique :
…draperies heptaïques…victimae paschalis laudes…Äase mors et vita…vents de cendres…
Musique du futur, plus sereine, qui bannit altérations et dissonances, dont les mélodies étranges s’unissent au souffle des cendres effaçant le passé
…intimate letters…memento regina cancricans…
The Ashes alone will understand.
Additional information
| Delivery | Digital sheet music for immediate download |
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| Difficulty | |
| Duration | 15-20 mn |
| Formation | Ensemble, More than eight musicians |
| Instrument | Ensemble |
| Brand | Editions Francois Dhalmann |














