Caroline Charrière
L’air glisse...

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for mixed choir

Text/Lyrics: José-Flore Tappy
Level: intermediate / advanced
Languages: French
Duration: 2'20
Genre: contemporary
Series: Swiss Composers Series
Composed: 2015

Reference: V118
CHF11.00
Choir score
(minimum 10 copies)

Details

Published: 2022
Publisher: Editions Bim

Audio samples

V118 L air glisse

Composer

Caroline Charrière (1960-2018)

Born 1960 in Fribourg (Switzerland), Caroline Charrière has accomplished flute studies at the Lausanne Conservatory (with Pierre Wavre) and completed them with Aurèle Nicolet and at the Royal North... Read more

About L’air glisse...

In this short song, Caroline Charrière sets to music a poem by the Vaud poetess José-Flore Tappy. She dedicates it to the Fribourg politician Solange Berset, in gratitude for her commitment to the creation of her opera “Les trois soupirs” (libretto: Isabelle Daccord) at the Murten Classics festival in August 2015.

The atmosphere of this piece is infinitely peaceful. Everything is as it should be. The calm is so profound that it gives the feeling that the air is gliding over the necks of the birds. The music, entirely placed under the indication dolce, describes this state of awareness, reinforced by the lapping of the waves, which leads to a fusion between the human being and nature. The quasi-parallel melodic line at the beginning leads to the monodic statement “I close my eyes”, a tipping point towards a state of absolute trust represented by subtle and moving harmonic strata.

Irène Minder