David Chaillou
Légendes (cycle)
Duration: 45'
Solos:
piano
Légendes (cycle)
Video
Work introduction
The word "legend" suggests to everyone a distant and wonderful story, which is reinvented each time it is told. There is no longer any present or past, we enter the borderless space of the imaginary and the timeless. In composing "Legendes", I wanted to create on the piano the same idea of blurring the gap between past and present, and of freedom of the imagination. The 10 pieces of music are presented as an inner journey, a listening itinerary that forms a kind of narrative thread without words.
Illusions, mirages, deformations, echoes, all these effects on which Le?gendes plays where achieved through a form of intimacy with the piano.
The play on contrasts (distance and proximity, emptiness and fullness) and the approach on the harmonic texture attempt to create a new sound space that could be described as a spectra-tonal halo.
David Chaillou (2020)
INDEX
1 - Les mains nues...............1 2 - Blocs............................. 26 3 - Empreintes.................... 30 4 - Mirages..........................44 5 - Pluies blanches............. 53 6 - Temps inverses..............67 7 - Voix parallèles............... 88 8 - Légende........................ 99 9 - Plein air........................ 105 10 - Final........................... 119
The cycle was recorded by the Finnish pianist Laura Mikkola for Fuga Libera : https://outhere-music.com/fr/albums/legendes