Licht im Dunkel

Expressivity, intensely luminous colours and glowing harmonies in the vein of Duruflé and Ravel characterise Daniel Roth’s musical meditations on the three invocations of light as symbols of universal hope in a state of darkness. The three sections of his cycle Licht im Dunkel are inspired by the lines ‘Il y a l’espérance qui est la plus forte’, ‘Il y a l’amour qui est la plus forte’ and ‘Il y a la joie qui est la plus forte’. This is how Paul Claudel, in his dramatic oratorio Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, written in collaboration with Arthur Honegger, describes the rapture of his heroine in the luminous sphere of heavenly grace and redemption.