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  • Tristan Murail

  • C'est un jardin secret, ma sœur, ma fiancée, une fontaine close, une source scellée... (1976)

  • Editions Transatlantiques (World)
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • 4 min 15 s

Programme Note

C'est un jardin secret..., for viola, written as a wedding present for two of the composer's friends, is an exquisite miniature encapsulating many characteristics of Murail's music on an intimate scale. A short sequence of processes, featuring sliding tempi and subtle fluctuations of finger and bowing pressure, is neatly concluded by a mysterious ascending figure. The title is a quotation from the Song of Songs.

Julian Anderson