Still Dream

The music of Philippe Fénelon stands in constant dialogue with the history of art and literature. He draws from traditional genres (madrigal, concerto, string quartet) and has more than one hundred instrumental and vocal works in his catalogue. The seven pieces on CD 1 (composed between 1980 and 1994) all refer to multiple wanderings through literature, visual art or cities that renew the musical concepts: mythology (Les Combats nocturnes), astronomy (Halley), music (Stockhausen in Épilogue, Bach in the Two Epigrams), ethnography (Zabak), a fresco by Tiepolo (Omaggio) and poetry (Notti) ... These various sources of inspiration would nourish the works to come. The two pieces on CD 2 (Still Dream, composed between 2012 and 2022, and Paléomusique from 2014) are part of this wandering through the arts and, more generally, through a world that never ceases to show its diversity and its broad mix of aesthetics and genres.