Tombée
Jean-Luc Guionnet, composition — Barbara Dang, harpsichord
Tombée is a work for double-manual harpsichord conceived as a digital and sonic labyrinth, where the instrument becomes an architecture to be explored. Combining equal temperament with an invented tuning, it transforms instrumental gesture into both a musical and tactile journey. Drawing on baroque forms and experimental practices, the piece reinvents the dance suite through contrasts and disorientation. Each performance is unique and inevitably leads to the final dance, Tombée, an abstract homage to the musical “tombeau” tradition.
Piano Repertoire
- Dream - John Cage (1948)
- Waiting - John Cage
- Swinging - John Cage
- A room - John Cage (1943)
- One5 - John Cage (1990)
- Unintended piano music - Cornelius Cardew (1950-1960)
- Arpa Eolica - Henry Cowell (1923)
- Ostinato - Henry Cowell
- Clear Edge - Barbara Monk Feldman (1993)
- Piano piece 1952 - Morton Feldman (1952)
- Palai de mari - Morton Feldman (1986)
- Sam Lazaro Bros - Jurg Frey (1984)
- Spaces - Tom Johnson (1969)
- Twelve - Tom Johnson (2008)
- Tango - Tom Johnson
- Counting keys - Tom Johnson (1982)
- Same and Different - Tom Johnson (2004)
- Music for Piano With Magnetic Strings - Alvin Lucier (1999)
- Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums - Alvin Lucier (1992)
- Musica Callada Cahier 1,2,3,4 - Federico Mompou (1951)
- Paisajes - Federico Mompou (1942)
- Sur la pointe des pieds - Federico Mompou (1916)
- Vexations - Erik Satie
- Le Fils Des Etoiles - Erik Satie (1891)
- Music For John Cage - Linda Catlin Smith (1990)
Harpsichord Repertoire
- Tombée – Jean-Luc Guionnet
- Ouverture to Orpheus - Louis Andriessen
- Ostinato - Henry Cowell
- Corona - Toru Takemitsu
- Uppon La Mi Ré - Anonyme
- Shadow of Earth - Michael Pisaro-Liu
- Passacaglia ungherese - György Ligeti
- Sleeping Lady - Linda Catlin Smith
Organ Repertoire
- Souvenir - John Cage
- Pari Intervallo - Arvo Pârt