La Lune Dans L'eau

NT 22 010 - Sophie Lacaze: La Lune dans l Eau, for young storytelling flautist In 1993, composer Sophie Lacaze chose the translucent timbre of the flute to explore the  mysterious origins  of vowels and their association with colours in Rimbaud s poem Voyelles (NT 14 451 Z). The composer s fascination with this age-old instrument has never ceased to grow, and was further impelled by her encounter with Pierre-Yves Artaud, to whom she dedicated Les quatre éléments and Het Lam Gods II. Sophie Lacaze has now produced a score for young storytelling flautist in La Lune dans L eau, a study miniature initially written for saxophone students and published in the Opensax collection (AL 30 701). Written for Year 3 and up, the piece delicately interlaces music and poetry, with the musician pronouncing aloud a haiku by Ueda Chôshû (1852-1932):  Though in a thousand shards / It is always there / The moon on water.  With a wide variety of techniques and performance indications, this volume is a veritable kaleidoscope of the flute s powers of expression, though this profusion never clouds the limpidity of a unique art: the art of simplicity.