Noces noires
Werner Lambersy, Annette Vande Gorne
Programme notes
To Werner Lambersy
At the start a poet’s commission
The music
The form
The meaning
Francis Dhomont writes about Noces noires:
“Dead. The listing of her eyes has lost the horizon. / Coupling with a jolt, the body shunted onto a siding. Making up the new convoy through the intricate railway switches of pain.”
In Noces noires, the text is first and foremost. It tells us of the death of a woman, a mother, the pain, the inevitable solitude. Brief images, fierce, charged with a pent-up emotion. And if it isn’t, at first listening, completely grasped, it’s because the message is rich, the ideas dense.
But it only takes a few snatches, here and there, to entice one to enter the grave and tender universe created by the author’s own voice, his text rendered without emphasis, almost in a whisper. With modesty and good sense, the musician stays behind the scenes. But the finesse of innumerable variations on the sound-symbols keep the ear and the heart spellbound.
February 17, 1988, Eurakousma 18-22 concert, Montréal
Noces noires [Black Wedding] was realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain (Belgium) in 1986 and was presented on October 2, 1986 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (France). Narrator
Premiere
- October 2, 1986, Concert, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
- Writer(s): Werner Lambersy
- Composer(s): Annette Vande Gorne
- Year of composition: 1986
- Duration: 34:14
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- ISRC: CAD509511290
