"This ends like a star that I have not succeeded to extinquish but that I have pushed so far that I don't see it anymore, '…not yet, yet already…' A star that I know shines there, but the light of which does not reach me anymore. It is a fine dissonance that remains suspended and of which Time gives the rhythm to its progressive extinction. It vibrates, but I do not sense it anymore; I only know it is there and that it will resolve in the consonant radiance of oblivion."




 
Four singers and orchestra
Commissioned by Radio France - Fondation Beaumarchais/SACD
Libretto by Marc Gautron
1 - Prelude
2 - Dispute
3 - Somniloquy
4 - Interlude 1
5 - Lamentation
6 - Interlude 2		 7 - Sleep (1)
8 - Awakening
9 - Sleep (2)
10 - Death of Virgil
11 - Spiral
12 - Postlude

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

Singers: soprano, alto, tenor, bass-baritone
Orchestra: =4 =4 =4 =4 - 4 4 +3 1 - tmp+4 - 2hp - pno - str
Duration: 39' [6'18 4'40 3'59 1'27 4'00 1'04 2'48 3'18 1'59 6'33 1'52 4'56]

Premiere: Olivier Messiaen Hall (Radio France)
Radio France/Paris de la Musique
December 2, 2000

French National Orchestra
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Baritone: Matteo de Monti (Virgile)
Soprano: Isabel Soccoja(Véra)
Tenor: Robert Wörle (Léo)
Alto: Sylvie Sullé (Jane)
Recording: Premiere live recording
Radio France / France Musiques
January 6, 2001 broadcast