CLAUDE VIVIER- Bouchara

- Lonely Child
- Prologue pour un Marco Polo
- Zipangu

SCHÖNBERG ENSEMBLE
ASKO ENSEMBLE
conducted by REINBERT DE LEEUW

CD 454 231-2
PHILIPS

- "I'm not the one writing my music," Claude Vivier once said. "Perhaps it's written by the flowers I smelled, a gesture I made, people I saw, the stars, you never know..."
Vivier was born in Montréal and died in Paris in 1983. He studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. He developed a highly personal musical style as well as a language of song existing of series of syllables, plucking them from different languages such as Dutch, Italian and Balinese.