Tribulations d'un ecureuil lambda

( solo piano ) 2002

Third opus for my instrument, wrote after Rhythmics and Repetitives. After this concert creation and with help of Helene Berger' suggestions, I begin to write solo piano works in an identical vein... During one of my usual walks, I bump into a squirrel. The fear of my presence gives him great excitement. It amazes, amuses and inspires me. This squirrel Lambda, as I call him, is going to be the origin of these 7 transcendent solo piano works... Like in all my piano compositions, inspiration comes to me on the keyboard. It's not the case in my orchestral works where pencil and score are the lonely masters. It emerges that they always own this pianistic improvisation character. The major part of my work on them, during the writing time, is more similar to architect job, sculpting and pottering. After a first abstract and global approach, I shape the musical material by subtraction better than addition technic. While working on this musical matter of which the "primary soup" was a chaos of notes, I deeply felt the Michelangelo Buenarotti's commentary that said "not scuplter rule them, the releasing only of their rock gangue"...
Works are fast, positive, joyful. The performer needs an updated XXth century classical and jazz piano level...

	I.	Eveil	Very difficult	2 '03 "
	II.	Affaires	Very difficult	2 '05 "
	III.	Dejeuner	Difficult	2 '05 "
	IV.	Sieste	Quite easy	2 ' 37"
	V.	Decrassage	Very difficult	1 '28 "
	VI.	Rangement	Difficult	1 '25 "
	VII.	Crepuscule	Quite difficult	2 '27 "
		Total time		14 '21 "