Le Visage nuptial
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| Cantata by Pierre Boulez | |
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The composer in 1968
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| English | The Nuptial Face |
| Text | poem by René Char |
| Language | French |
| Composed | 1946–47, revised 1951 and 1989 |
| Performed | 4 December 1957: Cologne |
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Le Visage nuptial (The Nuptial Face) is a secular cantata for soprano, contralto, choir of women and orchestra by Pierre Boulez. Originally composed in 1946–47 on a poem by René Char for two voices, two ondes Martenot, piano and percussion, the work, revised in 1951–52 in a version for voices and orchestra, was premiered on 4 December 1957 in Cologne conducted by the composer. The score was further revised in 1989, removing the quarter tones present in the second and fifth parts of the 1951–52 version, while revising the orchestration. A version with final revisions by the composer was premiered on 25 February 2014 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris during the closing concert of the festival Présences of Radio France.
1 Conduite: Orchestre traité à la manière d'un orchestre de chambre sans les voix.
2 Gravité: Mouvement lent qui chante l'attente amoureuse en utilisant les micro-intervalles.
3 Le Visage nuptial: Apothéose de la relation amoureuse.
4 Evadné: Dialectique entre voix intérieures et orchestre du monde extérieur.
5 Post-scriptum: Rupture du couple, et retour à la solitude avec un orchestre sans les vents.
The performance duration is twenty minutes.
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