Click to enlarge
Emmanuel Krivine conducts "Der Abstieg" with l'Orchestre Français des Jeunes at Cité de la Musique, Paris, September 2001



 
for orchestra (1995-1996)
This ends like a star I have not succeeded in extinguishing, but I have repulsed so far that I no longer see it, "... not yet, yet already...". A star that I know shines out there, but the light of which no longer reaches me. It is a slim dissonance in suspension and which, in the course of time, fades away. It vibrates, but I no longer sense it. I only know that it is there and that it will resolve in the shining consonance of oblivion.

Program Notes

Excerpts

Publisher: Durand-Salabert-Eschig, Paris
                 Boosey & Hawkes, New York
                 agent for North America

Orchestra: =4 =4 =4 3 - 4 4 +3 1 - tmp+4 - 2hp - pno - str
Duration: 13'

Premiere: Olivier Messiaen Hall (Radio France)
Radio France/Festival Presence
February 3, 1996

French National Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Daniel