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Lemoine MURAIL TRISTAN - UNE LETTRE DE VINCENT

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Creation

02/01/2018 - Stuttgart (Germany), Eclat Festival, Theaterhaus - Ensemble L'Itétrie
Sponsor

Eclat Festival and the Itinerary
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A Letter from Vincent, for flute and cello, is the most recent piece here (2018). It is part of the Portulan cycle, a cycle of chamber music pieces in development, which currently comprises eight pieces, written for various instrumental combinations among an ensemble of eight musicians. Portulans were ancient maritime atlases, often adorned with illuminations, which traced the coasts and indicated the main landmarks to the medieval navigator then without a compass. Each piece in the cycle refers to something, place, journey, reading, aesthetic experience, of particular significance to me. The starting point of the Letter of Vincent is a childhood memory: a book that I had been given, on Van Gogh, where, in addition to reproductions of his works, one could find some of the letters that 'he wrote to his brother Theo, who regularly sent him money, paintings, colors. I had been very impressed, and moved, as much by the painting as by the content of these letters, at the same time naive, poignant, begging, sometimes desperate, often quite disjointed, jumping from one idea to another. Much later, I found these letters, in particular a small booklet containing the last letters, those he wrote from Auvers-sur-Oise, during the last months of his life, and these childhood emotions returned. The piece begins with a short motif of four notes, which evokes the words "My dear Theo", with which all of Vincent's letters begin. This motif will be transformed throughout the work, and mingle with various other elements - in particular very rapid exchanges between harmonics of flute and cello, according to the technique known as hiccup, a metaphor for a pictorial technique dear to Van Gogh, which consists of the accumulation of small touches of paint. Today I live in this Provence that Van Gogh had chosen to find his colorful palette. Some evenings, the full moon rises behind the large cypress trees in the garden ...

Tristan Murail,
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