Philippe Manoury - Selected Compositions

Selected Compositions

Operas

• 60e Parallèle for 9 singers, large orchestra and electronics (1995–1996)
• K… (2001)
• La Frontière, Chamber Opera for 6 singers, 9 instruments and electronics (2003)
• La Nuit de Gutenberg, opera in a prologue and 12 scenes. Premiered at the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, 24 September 2011

Orchestral works

• Numéro huit, op. 8 (1980, revised 1987)
• Pentaphone, 5 Pieces for large orchestra, op. 24 (1993)
• Prelude and Wait (1995)
• Sound and Fury (1999)

Chamber music

• Numéro cinq for piano and 13 instruments, op. 5 (1976)
• Instantanés (1983)
• Version La Rochelle, op. 10a (1983)
• Version Étude, op. 10b (1983)
• Version Baden-Baden, op. 10c (1985)
• La Partition du Ciel and de l’Enfer, op. 19 (1989)
• Passacaille pour Tokyo for piano and 17 instruments (1994)
• Fragments pour un portrait, 7 Pieces for ensemble of 30 instruments (1998)
• Épitaphe for 7 instruments, op. 29 (1995)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for 10 instruments (2004)
• Identités remarquables for 23 instruments (2005)
• Strange Ritual for 21 instruments (2005)
• Focus (1973)
• Le Tempérament variable (1978)
• String Quartet, op. 6 (1978)
• Musique I for 2 harps, guitar, mandolin and 2 percussionists (1986)
• Musique II for 7 brass (2.2.2.1) and 2 marimbas, op. 14 (1986)
• Petit aleph (1986)
• Solo de vibraphone (1986)
• Le Livre des claviers, Six pieces for 6 percussionists (1987)
• Deux mélodies (1988)
• Michigan Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1992)
• Gestes for string trio (1992)
• Métal for sixxens sextett (1995)
• Ultima for clarinet, cello and piano (1996)
• Last for bass-clarinet and bass-marimba (1997)

Live electronics

• Zeitlauf for choir, 14 instruments and electronics, op. 9 (1982)
• Jupiter for flute and live electronics, op. 15a (1987, revised 1992)
• Pluton for piano and live electronics (1988, revised 1989)
• Neptune for 3 percussionists and live electronics, op. 21 (1991)
• En écho for soprano and live electronics (1993–1994); words by Emmanuel Hocquart
• Partita I for viola and live electronics (2006)

Piano

• Sonate for 2 pianos (1972, revised 1994)
• Cryptophonos (1974)
• Puzzle (1975)
• Toccata (1998) from de « Passacaille pour Tokyo »
• La Ville (…Première sonate) (2001–2002)

Vocal

• Aleph for 4 singers and orchestra (1985–1987)
• Xanadu for soprano and clarinet (1989); words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Chronophonies I and II for mezzo-soprano, baritone-bass and large orchestra (1994)
• Douze moments for mezzo-soprano and large orchestra (1998)
• Slova for choir (2001–2002)
• Fragments d'Héraclite for choir (2003)
• Noon for soprano, choir, large orchestra, and electronics (2003)
• Blackout, Melodrama for alto and 13 instruments (2004)
• On-iron for choir, electronics and video (2005)