Every work of art is situated in the imagination," wrote Pierre Soulages half a century ago. For Edith Canat de Chizy, this is a fundamental principle that has guided her work as a composer since her very first works. Knowing the close links between painting and music, she has often wanted to confront the imagination of painters such as Whistler, Monet, Staël, Turner and more recently Soulages, with Outrenoir (2020) for solo viola and ensemble.
However different they may be in their approach, size and structure, these four pieces for chamber ensemble converge towards the same essential aim, summed up by this line from Victor Hugo: 'Everything is light'.