Part 2
Le Cimetière Marin is a meditation on the poem of Paul Valery. Contrapuntal, delicately dissonant, and scored for a medium-sized orchestra, it makes a promising introduction for those unacquainted with Valen's music. The work was included in one of this year's I.S.C.M. concerts in Osio, where Valen spent most of his life. From 1938 until his death last year he lived in retirement in a remote part of Western Norway. Eric Warr