Tristan Murail - Winter Fragments (Audio + Full Score)

Tristan Murail - Winter Fragments, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics: [Macintosh, clavier MIDI, amplification reverb] (2000) Argento Chamber Ensemble Conductor - Michel Galante “As a rule I don’t like naming a piece before I’ve finished writing it, like counting your chickens before they’re hatched. The completed piece may well differ considerably from the initial project, which is a concept, ideas, sounds and images, while the finished product is sound, organised within time. There’s a gulf between the two. So this title has to be taken for what it’s worth. It is at one and the same time an acknowledgement of the festival where the piece is to be created (“Sounds of winter and today“), and the experience of a genuine winter last year, particularly where we now live, to the north of New York, a region of lakes and small mountains. The lake in front of our house was frozen over, and there were sixty centimetres of snow all round. Fo