Résonances

In So nah, so fern (So close, so distant), the memory of the composer Luc Brewaeys, — dedicatee of this piece by Philippe Hurel — is subconsciously omnipresent, like a rustle of leaves, inspired by an invisible wind.

Like Virginia Woolf’s description of the sound of Big Ben in Mrs Dalloway – ‘The leaden circles dissolved in the air’ – Clara Iannotta in D’après similarly looks at the aftermath of the bells’ clangorous peal as it melts into its surroundings.

Who knows what the endless ripples on the serene surface of calm water reveal? The diptych El agua y la muerte from Filip Rathé plunges into the dark depths of Federico García Lorca's poems, full of reverberations of Arab-Andalusian culture.