L'empire des lumières

Date of Composition: 1993

Duration: 5'

Category: Solo

Instrumentation: Piano

L'empire des lumières attempts to find musicl equivalents to the extraordinary tromp l'oeil of Rene Magritte's lamplit street scene beneath a blue sky. This is sought in three sources, a hesitant chrodal sequence in many tempi, a simple diatonic melodic fragment that incongrously follows this and a rapidly disappearing
act, pianissimo, over the entire range of the keyboard.

L'empire des lumières has been recorded by Jenny Q Chair on a Naxos CD 9.70216