SKU: HL.49019232
ISBN 9790001179911. UPC: 884088907624. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches.
Although the composer Thierry Pecou mostly does without experimental playing techniques, an exemplary modern harp sound emerges from among soft whispering sounds and massive chord clusters. Tone colours associatively modelled on the sparkling green of jade crystallize.Pecou composed 'Harpe de jade' for the international harp competition of the Cite des Arts in Paris. The work is dedicated to the internationally renowned harpist Isabelle Moretti. 'Harpe de jade' is the first work of the young French composer published by Schott Music.
SKU: HL.49019416
ISBN 9790001191067. UPC: 884088925635. 9.25x12.0x0.325 inches.
Thierry Pecou's demanding Sextet for piano and wind quintet can be played by students and professional ensembles alike. The composer got his inspiration to write this piece from listening to a gamelan orchestra at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. What mattered to Pecou in this composition, however, was not just imitating the music styles of Bali or Java. The Sextet rather gives a very personal answer to the intensive impression the exotic sounds had made on the composer. Smoothly flowing lines in the flute part emerge next to fine-tuned chord clusters, echoing the original sound spectrum of gamelan gongs.
SKU: HL.49044450
ISBN 9790001198639. 9.0x12.0x0.124 inches.
This work is part of a cycle of five short pieces for a single instrument and piano, focused on the five ages in the cosmogony of Ancient Mexican civilisation. The peoples of the Mexican highlands believe that time follows specific cycles and that the world was created following the pattern of 'trial and error'. The creation of the world is divided into several periods which are termed 'suns' (we are currently living in the fifth phase named 'Ollin'). Each period will be brought to an end through a natural catastrophe.Solei-Feu refers to the first attempt to create a world out of a rain of fire (nahui quiahuitl).The element of fire is reflected in the musical soundscape of this work, constructed from rampant, rhythmic motifs, fragmented splinters, spinning upswings and impacts reverberating through space. An intimate dialogue develops between violin and piano on the basis of extremely simple figures. Interconnecting lines and dense musical material are thrown against each other in a play of contrasting registers and blended tonal colouring, creating a mysterious and disturbing mythological universe coloured by its ontological pessimism. Thierry PecouSoleil-Feu refers to the first attempt to create a world out of a rain of fire (nahui quiahuitl) as described in the cosmogony of Ancient Mexican civilisation. The element of fire is reflected in the musical soundscape of this work; rampant, rhythmic motifs, fragmented splinters, spinning upswings and impacts reverberating through space create a mysterious and disturbing mythological universe coloured by its ontological pessimism. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49044453
ISBN 9790001197007. UPC: 888680077587. 9.25x12.0x0.4 inches. Latin.
For me, as someone who considers myself far removed from Christian spirituality and closer to the concept of Immanence than to any form of Transcendence, it was obvious to me that I would not compose a Miserere comparable to Alesandro Scarlatti's Lamentazioni. It was also my wish to theatricalise the subject matter, following pagan rituals which appear to have been retained in the monastic Tenebrae services up to Renaissance times. In the series of sequences in which silence plays a prominent role, a path leads to strange rites in which the listeners are invited to stamp their feet on the ground, creating waves of thundering sound, or accompany the chanting of texts. Three sopranos take on an instrumental role, deploying a broad range of vocal sounds from aspirations to screams. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49045470
ISBN 9790001201353. 9.0x12.0x0.15 inches.
These seven settings for piano solo, like the original chamber music cycle, are evocative of the unscrupulous period of the slave trade: 'For me, the meaning of this work lies in the lasting remembrance, the reverent ceremony, not solely the emotionalism and contemplation of the prayer, but contemplation of the mind. Beyond the confines of memory, I would like to express the inconceivable, but in the greatest possible concentration without effects and dramatisation, like 'a mute tocsin bell'. (Thierry Pecou).
SKU: HL.49045135
ISBN 9790001202121. 8.25x11.75x0.374 inches. French.
Thierry Pecou lasst die untergegangenen Kulturen der Maya und Azteken in einer symphonisch-vokalen Musiksprache wieder auferstehen. Der geschmeidige Jaguar reprasentierte in den vorkolumbianischen Welten nicht nur die Macht des Konigs, er symbolisierte auch den nachtlichen Lauf der Sonne durch die todgeweihte Unterwelt.3 (3. auch Picc.) * 3 (3. auch Engl. Hr.) * 3 (3. auch Bassklar.) * 3 (3. auch Kfg.) - 4 * 3 (3. auch Piccolotrp. in B) * 3 * 1 - P. S. (I: Crot. * Beck. [crash] * hg. chin. Beck. * Tamt. * Bong. * Tomt. * gr. Tr. * chin. Bl. * Holzbl. * Cencerros; II: Crot. * Plattengl. * hg. Beck. * chin. Beck. * Gongs * thai. Gong * Tamt. * Tamt. [gross] * Bong. * Cong. * Tumba * gr. Tr. * Metal Chimes * Teponatzli [hoch]; III: P. * Crot. * geschlagene Beck. * chin. Beck. * gr. Nietenbeck. * thai. Gong * Tamt. * 2 Rahmentr. * gr. Tr. * Teponatzli [mittel]) (3 Spieler) - Str. (16 * 14 * 10 * 8 * 6).
SKU: HL.49045771
0.15 inches.
My fascination with the culture of the Navajo Native Americans and their healing ceremonies based on harmony and beauty motivated meto listen to ethnographic recordings of their songs, which are customarily accompanied by rattles and drums. A number of these songsinspired me to create two works for different instrumental ensembles for students at the Conservatoire de Versailles. Both pieces represent miniature versions of ceremonial events. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49045770
9.0x12.0x0.12 inches.
SKU: HL.49045047
ISBN 9790001127066. UPC: 888680735203. 9.0x12.0x0.065 inches.
This short piece for piano for four hands was inspired by a small painting by Alfred Sisley from the Musee de Rouen, which shows a sea wave in a Welsh coastal landscape. Pecou composed this work for his son and grandfather, for both are pianists.
SKU: HL.49019602
ISBN 9790001192767. UPC: 884088924126. 9.0x12.0x0.15 inches.
While Western polyphonic music achieved its pinnacle in the fugue, rhythmic polyphony of great complexity evolved in Cuba. It is particularly the 'bata' (drumming music originating in the Afro-Cuban 'Santeria' cult), the 'rumba' and the 'son' (ancestor of the famous 'salsa') which have provided me with my inspiration. I employ the quartet in the manner of a drumming ensemble and each individual string corresponds to the sound of a particular drum. The quartet plays on scordatura open strings employing a rich palette of percussive playing techniques recreating the different types of drumming attacks. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49045380
ISBN 9790001203487. UPC: 888680721268. 8.25x11.75x0.084 inches. French.
This work was commissioned by the Latvian choir Kamer within the framework of a large-scale project centered round the topic the sun. A poem by Paul de Brancion is interspersed with expressions and sayings taken from French folklore. The poetic text describing the contemporary anxiety that everything will be scorched by the sun as a result of global warming provides a response to popular opinion and cheerful idioms. The score is constructed like a descent into great depths, from the sunlight into darkness. The composition can also be combined with its sequel composition Au dessous des etoiles (Under the Stars) for mixed choir.Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49046028
ISBN 9790001166485. UPC: 841886026605.
Written for the timpanist Philippe Serra, this work is reminiscent of North American Indian tribal dances. The pulsation - relating to the earth and the landscape and, naturally, also to the circle (a symbol itself for the points of the compass and the cycle of life) - sets the character of the music, which exploits the sonic possibilities of the instrument as well as the evocative force of the pulsing beat itself on the timpani. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49046001
0.262 inches.
Orquoy is inspired by the music of ancient Andean civilisations. The work evokes the atmosphere of fiestas and collective rites: bright colours, the movements of bodies, the ritual consumption of alcohol, a sense of vertigo, the shrill flutes and the power of percussion instruments - this all contributes to a permanent saturation of the senses. For the Quechuas, whose music is characterised by pre-Hispanic elements, the composer is a shaman, wandering between the sphere of the supernatural and the human world. He coaxes melodies out of the Gods - this is the meaning of the word 'orquoy'. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49046564
ISBN 9781705126592. UPC: 842819113713.
This composition is a response to the Trio Arbos enticing commission to include me in a series of works for piano trio by various composers that pay tribute to and enter into dialogue with the flamenco. For the title of my piece I have chosen a verse by the great poet Miguel Hernandez, which has wonderfully captured the depth of the Spanish soul in which the flamenco resonates so strongly. (Thierry Pecou).
SKU: HL.49046696
UPC: 841886030985.
This work in two movements is inspired by the Mexican marimba tradition. From Veracruz to San Cristobal de la Casas, I have encountered this happy or melancholy, but always festive music. It is usually played on the street or on the terrace of a cafe by a group of one to five players on the same instrument. (Thierry Pecou).
SKU: HL.49045225
ISBN 9790001129602. 9.0x12.0x0.122 inches. French.
If a chanson is combined with a birthday celebration (in this case, that of the Ensemble Utopik who commissioned this new work), this inevitably brings back scenes of childhood. For me, Adieu Madras conjures up memories of the homeland of my family, and in particular Henri and Jacqueline Salvador whose wonderful TV programmes I watched during the 1970s. It is without doubt thanks to Henri Salvadors wonderful interpretation that this old chanson from Martinique, dating from the late eighteenth century and almost a national anthem both in Martinique and Guadeloupe, has also gained such popularity in France. Thierry Pecou.
SKU: HL.49044624
ISBN 9790001197021. 9.25x12.0x0.152 inches.
Thierry Pecou's work for clarinet (or saxophone) and piano represents the vitality of Cuban music: polyphonic rhythms, fast tempo and complex chord sequences convey the pure joie de vivre of South America.
SKU: HL.49019990
ISBN 9790001196413. 9.0x12.0x0.149 inches.
Mit seinem Werk fur Klavier solo stellt Thierry Pecou die Vitalitat der Musik Kubas dar: polyphone Rhythmen, schnelle Tempi und komplexe Akkordfolgen verspruhen die ausgelassene karibische Lebensfreude.
SKU: HL.49046291
ISBN 9781540069801. UPC: 888680976552.
This piece, based on a poem by the poet Lena Monnerot, is the gift of a 22-year-old love-loving composer to his girlfriend. Offrandewas premiered in 1988 in the Bayeux Cathedral by the French Army Echo, whose pianist Thierry Pecou was during his military service.
SKU: HL.49019803
ISBN 9790001193771. UPC: 888680009359. 9.25x12.0x0.4 inches.
SKU: HL.49046821
ISBN 9781705157244. UPC: 841886031388.
SKU: HL.49019993
ISBN 9790001194464. 9.25x12.0x0.395 inches.
SKU: HL.49044842
ISBN 9790001198066. 9.0x12.0x0.326 inches.
Als Auftragswerk fur das Kronos Quartet entstanden, schildert diese Komposition facettenreich den Glanz des alten Agyptens: Lyrisch-fliessende Motive verbinden orientalische Melismen und majestatische Hymnen zu einer exotischen Klangmischung.
SKU: HL.49045258
ISBN 9790001198103. UPC: 888680697495. 9.0x12.0x0.173 inches.
In dem von der Musik des tibetanischen Buddhismus inspirierten Werk imitieren Bassklarinette und Klavier durch spezielle Spieltechniken die typische Instrumente, die in rituellen Zeremonien zum Einsatz kommen.
SKU: HL.49044787
ISBN 9790001196406. 9.0x12.0x0.08 inches.
SKU: HL.49045042
ISBN 9790001203470. 8.25x11.75x0.047 inches. French.
Text in French.
