Xavier Dayer

Xavier Dayer/Ensemble Cairn

Archive 2007

Music

Xavier Dayer
To the Sea (a tribute to Cy Twombly) for flute alto
Promenade de Ricardo Reis, for guitar solo
Sonnet XXIV for soprano, flute and guitar
Based on Fernando Pessoa
D’un amour lancé, for viola and violin
Chants de la première veilleuse, for soprano and alto saxophone
Based on Fernando Pessoa
Shall I Revisit These Same Differing Fields, (Sonnet XX) for violin,
cello and piano, based on Fernando Pessoa
Mais je me suis enfui, for flute, oboe, violin, viola and cello

Marie-Adeline Henry, soprano
Ensemble Cairn
With the help of Pro Helvetia and Sacem

While highlighting the link between human beings and the voice, the ‘‘original instrument’’, this young Swiss composer is also drawn to the moments when language is more like a colour – where music and poetry overlap. He has found fertile ground in the work of Fernando Pessoa, a poet of the “in-between”. His music probes our memory and memories – like a game at the edge of the void, or a “book of disquiet.”