Thierry Huillet - Thierry Huillet / Un requiem & prélude pour alto et orchestre (2019) Hi-Res

A Requiem by Thierry Huillet is, like Brahms’ “German Requiem”, a non-liturgical spiritual work, which explores in a personal way the theme of rest in death. She uses texts from the Requiem liturgy, in Latin, Italian and Spanish, putting the music of languages at the service of the music of the notes, but also French poems that highlight the relationship between Death and Light, oscillating between poignant feelings and calming the soul. These French poems cover four areas: mother-child, man-soldier, father-child, love of the couple.
Prelude for viola and string orchestra by Thierry Huillet, is a transcription, by the composer, of the first part of “Prélude, Chemin de Croix et Résurrection” for cello and organ. The “Prelude” offers a spiritual vision of the setting of Judea 2000 years ago. It unrolls an ample, sung and expressive sentence on the viola, a great emotional spiral in which all the elements of the coming drama are already in germ. This song is accompanied by the iridescent harmony, then more and more dense, of the orchestra, until the climax, a real cry of the viola, charged with human suffering. The piece ends in an atmosphere nimbed in a soft light, like an inverted cinematographic zoom.