Les Voix Humaines

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Composed by
Fran Barajas
Instrument(s)
bass clarinet, bass flute, cello, oboe, percussion, piano, viola, violin
With electronics
no
Work premiered
April 2022
Venue of the premiere
Musikene, Donostia (Spain)
Duration
10 minutes

Les Voix Humaines (written for the Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2022) takes its title from a well-known viola da gamba piece of Marin Marais, and deals with a similar concept of recreating a vocal quality with the instrumental means, that materializes as a long cantabile line transformed in time.

Chamber Ensemble (5-9 instruments)
Contemporary Classical Music
ensemble intercontemporain
instrumental
les voix humaines
microtonality
Young Composers