Absence
4 mixed voices
Poem by Paul Eluard
(2001)
Duration : 3’30
First performance on january 14th 2003, in the Blagnac’s church by the chamber choir Les Eléments conducted by Joël Suhubiette.
Publisher: Editions Jobert
Beginning :
The poem :
My forehead against the glass like the watchmen of grief
Sky whose night I have surpassed
Plains so small in my open hands
In their double horizon inert indifferent
My forehead against the glass like the watchmen of grief
I look for you beyond all expectation
Beyond even myself
And no longer know loving you so
Which of us two is absent.
Paul Eluard
“Love, Poetry”