Creation : 08 December 2018 at Marmoutier, France
Musicians : 3 percussionists
Comissioner : Percussions de Strasbourg
Duration : 12′
After having written several long plays for various cast sizes, I turn to miniature for the second time. I am also taking advantage of this return to a certain form of apparent simplicity to focus on instruments of indefinite height (temple blocks, wooden drums, various metals without a fixed height, skins, various percussive objects, etc.), whereas my work for percussion had hitherto focused on keyboards. These Three Miniatures for Three Percussionists will also take on a hieratic character dictated by recent personal events and also by my growing interest, at the age of over sixty, in the realm of the sacred.
Philippe Hurel