Éluard wrote this moving poem after the bombing of Guernica by the nazis in 1937. It was adapted in 2013 by Patrick Loiseleur for the Recontres Internationales de Cergy Pontoise and premiered by Sevan Manoukian.
Written in 2008 for the KABrass ensemble, those five pieces get the best ouf of brass instruments and picture the arrival of french composer Olivier Messiaen in paradise.
One froggy night in London... this piece for 11 instruments is written like the Ouverture of an imaginary opera on Guillaume Apollinaire's great song La romance du mal-aimé.