French Poetry

Émile Martel

Pour orchestre et poète seul

Écrits des Forges; distributed by Diffusion Prologue

ISBN 2-89046-366-4

Pour orchestre et poète seul is an astonishing meditation upon music that stimulates poetic reflection. The world of music echoes that of language, and in questioning the effects of sound, paradoxically, the words seem to vibrate, composing a lovely variation against a backdrop of silence.

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