Diptyque pour le Tibet

These two short movements are like a postscript to my work Thibet, fragments after Segalen: they partly use the same musical material, but no longer refer to Segalen. Pespective and expression change; the music is more abstract. The title of the first part bears the Tibetan name for Tibet, that of the second one is a wink at Capra's film, Lost Horizon. These two parts are dedicated to free Tibet and they clearly could have been named “Requiem for Tibet”. This work is the first in a collection of studies which are all short pieces for various chamber ensembles - studies in character, composition and listening, whose challenge lies at least as much in the musical quality necessary for their interpretation as in their more or less difficult execution.

Une transcription en a été réalisée pour clarinette (sib) et alto.