Ciels d'or is a journey that takes the listener from dusk to dawn. The light and the skies are ablaze at the dawn and at the end of the night, creating transitional moments that poets and composers seize upon: Rosy Wertheim and Edith Lejet write of the blazing twilight, Garcia Lorca and Elisenda Fabregas of the exacerbated sensuality of the burning sun, Edith Canat de Chizy's Litanie of spiritual light, while Diglee and Josephine Stephenson's Aube (dawn), commissioned by the Trio Haydée and premiered in 2024, poetically touches on the memory of pale, chilling daylight.

The night, at the heart of these plays of light, is sometimes nightmarish, consuming the poet in Grace Williams' Songs of Sleep, sometimes the site of a floating dream, in Reflets by Maeterlinck and Lili Boulanger. Its pure darkness allows Louise-Zoé Gouirand-Gentil's twinkling stars to stand out.

Birds, harbingers of both night (particularly in Pauline Viardot’s Roussignolet) and day, accompany these luminous crossings, these moments of mingling between night and day, then human beings allow themselves to intimately touch and be touched. These are the moments to which the birds give voice.

Performers
Trio Haydée