1. Das Wort (The Word)
2. Prière (Pray)
3. Hymne (Hymn)
Poems from Marilène Meckler and Jean-Baptiste Robin

These three pieces were composed in the spring of 2020 during the first Lockdown of the French population in the face of the spread of the coronavirus.
This exceptional context was an unexpected link with the subject of the commission of the work: War, uncertainty, the union of peoples and the freedom regained in the aftermath of the Second World War.
It is therefore here both the crisis of 1939-45 which is expressed, but also, through its feelings, that of 2020. The unpublished texts alternate French and German, and illustrate the reunion of these two countries after the conflict ...

Text after L'horloge arrêtée, from Bouquets et prières (1843) by Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE (1786-1859)
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From Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
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text by Jean-Baptiste Robin
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This motet for the Advent period is a part of Livre de Notre-Dame.

This work offers several Emergences. Emergences in the sense that the work evokes an ascent from the abyss to the surface of the sea, into the clouds that form part of the ocean. Emergences also because the sounds of the choir are gradually transformed from a simple vowel into the saying of a poem.
Thus, the beginning of the work ? an evocation of ocean floors ? begins with a generally static melody where only a few vowels are pronounced by the voices. The choir sounds gradually change and form "words", or singers recite some names of these amazing beings who live from four thousand meters below sea?level.