Instrumentation: for tenor, choir, two trumpets and organ

Duration: 12' 00"

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute, choir and two percussion

Texts: Thérèse Harvey-Loup

I. Elle - II. Guerre - III. Soleil-Feu.

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for organ

...I have set myself free from traditional formal organ writing, where nolens volens, the principle of imitation, or the fugue, if one so wishes, plays a role which I believe to be exaggerated.

Duration: 15' 00"

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Thérèse Harvey-Loup

Text: Thérèse Loup.

Duration: 16' 00"

Instrumentation: for harpsichord

'Crève-coeur' - 'Pluie' - 'Message' - 'Mille et un soleils de joie'

Duration: 9' 00"

Instrumentation: for piano

I. Sur trois marches de marbre rose - II. Stèle - III. Folie.

Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for soprano, piano and brass (two trumpets and two trombones)

Texts: Norbert Moret

Text: Norbert Moret.

Duration: 19' 00"

Instrumentation: for string orchestra, organ, three trombones and four percussionists

'Tempête de vie' - 'Solitude vierge' - 'Fusée vers l'Etoile'

Duration: 30' 00"

Instrumentation: for baritone solo, string orchestra and two trumpets

Texts: Norbert Moret

I.: ‘Temps de l'absurde’, ‘Parcours intérieur I’, ‘Chanson’; II.: ‘Non-Temps’, ‘Parcours intérieur II’; III.: ‘Temps de l'Etoile’. "Not so much a meditation as a tentative question and an imploring cry in consideration of daily violence, hopelessness and uncertainty, hypocrisy and stupidity, the fading of the individual and society, which so betrays the overall decline of the world."

Duration: 40' 00"

Instrumentation: for two string orchestras

I. Pourquoi - II. Ombre dansante du songe - III. Abîme - IV. Extase - V. Aux quatre vents.

Duration: 21' 00"

Lyrical scenes

Instrumentation: for soprano solo, violoncello and orchestra (0.2.1.ca.0.3/0.3.3.0/4perc/str)

Texts: Walt Whitman

On the theme of Tristan and Isolde. Based on 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman: 'My love' - 'With my Inebriate Soul'.

Duration: 42' 00"

Three visions evoking Man

Instrumentation: for soprano solo, two children's choirs, girl's choir, large choir and orchestra (0.3(ca).0.3(cbn/4.3.3.0/4perc.3church bells/3org/str)

Texts: Norbert Moret

For the 500th anniversary of Fribourg's entry into the Swiss Confederation.

Duration: 45' 00"

Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello and chamber orchestra (0.0.0.0/2.2.0.0/2perc/str)

"...I desperately wanted to write a composition free from angst and oppression and, in line with this, dreams and joy are expressed in the leading part."

Duration: 22' 00"

Instrumentation: for speaker and chamber ensemble (portative organ, regal, harpsichord, violin, double-bass, trumpet, bass clarinet)

Texts: Tristan Corbière

For these works I have turned to recitative and not simply a musical setting of the words; music is already inherent in the poems of Tristan Corbiere. When I came to add new sounds to them, I found that this was only feasible from the outer idea, to complete the poem through strong stereotypes, and individualistic sound colours, allowing them to blend with each other.

Duration: 8' 00"

Opera in one act

Instrumentation: for Mezzo-soprano, Tenor,

Texts: Norbert Moret

People: Clytaemnestra, Electra, Orestes.

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: for quartet (vibraphone, bass clarinet, regal organ, positive organ)

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.3(bcl).3(cbn)/0.0.0.0/4perc/str)

'Ceins ton front' - 'Au temple de l'amour' - 'Vent d'ouest'

Duration: 25' 00"

I. Nuée blessée - II. Bulles dansantes - chimères cristallines - III. Quand passe le dieu.

Duration: 26' 00"

Instrumentation: (0.0.2(bcl)0/1.1.0.0/1perc) and string sextet

- Chanson (pour passer le temps)
- Chanson d’amour
- Chanson du vent d’ouest


Duration: 26' 00"

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/perc/str)

Duration: 1' 40"

Instrumentation: for soprano and orchestra (2.2.3(bcl).3(cbn)/4.3.3.0/4perc) and a string sextet

Texts: Susette Gontard

Texts are taken from the letters of Susette Gontard to Hölderlin.

Duration: 23' 00"

Instrumentation: (2hn/cel/2perc/str)

I. Lumière vaporeuse - II. Dialogue avec l'Etoile - III. Azur fascinant (Sérénade tessinoise).

Duration: 20' 00"

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (2(pic).1.1.1/1.1.0.0/2perc/str)

I. Sacrifice - II. Elégie - III. Cloches de vie.
These three pieces more or less illustrate the experience of Hiroshima 1945: An outbreak of tragedy, suppressed gasps and painful laments of the victims, concluding with a song of hope.


Duration: 12' 00"

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.1.2.bcl.0/3.2.2.0/3perc/10.10.8.8.6)

Duration: 14' 00"

Instrumentation: for a-cappella choir

Duration: 8' 30"

Instrumentation: for viola and organ

Duration: 8' 30"

Instrumentation: for oboe, horn, violoncello, percussion and orchestra

I. Badinierie - II. Valse - III. Fête.

Duration: 17' 00"

Instrumentation: for violin and harp

Duration: 6' 00"

Instrumentation: for baritone and piano

Texts: Charles d'Orléans, Arthur Rimbaud

Text: Charles d'Orléans, Arthur Rimbaud.

Duration: 6' 00"

Instrumentation: for violoncello

Duration: 7' 00"

Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra

I. Sur la pointe de la feuille - une perle de rosée frémissante - II. Ciel bleu sur blés d'or - III. Dans le ciel profond - une alouette trille l'espoir.

Duration: 18' 00"

Instrumentation: (1.1.1.1/0.1.0.0/2perc/str)

I. Le soir au fond des bois - II. Romance - III. Burlesque.

Duration: 21' 00"

Instrumentation: (pic.1.0.ca.0.1/2.2.2.0/2perc/str)

I. Langues de feu - II. Mystérieuses chapelles - III. Rires-Chansons.

Duration: 25' 00"

Instrumentation: (1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/2perc/str)

I. Rêver - II. Aimer - III. Chanter.

Duration: 23' 00"

Instrumentation: (2.2.1.3/2.2.2.0/3perc/str)

Duration: 8' 00"