Le Passeur de brumes for alto saxophone and string quartet
Reference EAL 441
Gréco Casadesus 11 p (+18)
The Passer of Mists
He comes from nowhere. Previously, he passed suns, moons and stars. But these, at the end of their expedition, faded away even faster, shrouded by disillusionment. Then he decided to welcome the shadow, the indefinable, the diaphanous and the subjective. He instilled a very particular movement to these elements and went on the roads of the imaginary, wrapped in his colony of mists.
At the bend of a universe, he meets a string quartet. Anchored in its certainties, this one tried to submerge the abyss of time with idle discussions and endless quarrels. The passer-by of mists then interferes, blurs the tracks of intransigent knowledge and interrupts sterile exchanges: the surprise is great. But the sense of hospitality takes over: we welcome him and we even let him speak. To the set of strings that gets bogged down, he shows an unsuspected path; he speaks of luminous fogs, composed of inner stars and water; he evokes the sabotaging secrets and the power of the unsaid; he depicts the banal but perfectible obviousnesses, the improbable but authentic truths, the reasons that are always wrong. We listen to him. From his words emanates a glow. Each one feels differently, but they all see their identity in reverse light, thus more radiant. Through music their exchanges become symbiotic.
However, the ferryman does not wait to know if he is convincing: he delegates a few mists and leaves, enveloped in even thicker fogs.
In any case the way is never traced...
Gréco Casadesus
An endearing piece which it is impossible to summarize here but which we can only encourage to discover. This composer, well known for his film music, deserves to be also known for all his works. ( Music Education)
