Excerpt
12/02/2000 - Stuttgart - Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart - D: Manfred Schreier
The title Les Lettres enlacées (Intertwined Letters) refers to a style of writing based on two melody lines that overlap, pile up, cross over and finally return to a more or less parallel position.
The piece should therefore be thought of as true polyphony. The movement gives rise to a form of expression and energy whose origins lie in the tangled lines of Romantic piano music, especially that of Schumann and Brahms.
