“Fugitif”: a French word meaning “fleeting”, “evanescent”, but also “ephemeral” and “transitory”. This concept has been explored by various composers, each offering their own unique interpretation.

Published by Da Vinci Publishing, this CD is intended as a reflection on the transience not only of music, but of all reality. Impermanence and fleetingness are the very essence of all things and all manifestations, and music is perhaps the art form in which the concept of “fugitif” finds its ultimate expression. Sound is intangible and fleeting.

Through a journey that weaves together different composers and sensibilities, the program explores the idea of the musical fragment as a space of revelation. Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives op. 22 lies at the heart of this project, where the fleeting moment is continuously transformed into an intimate diary, a premonition, and a visionary landscape. Alongside them, Clara Schumann’s Pièces fugitives op. 15 demonstrate a refined ability to subtly and originally challenge the conventions of the sonata form. The journey then continues with the piano cycles of Samuil Maykapar and three exquisite pieces by Moritz Moszkowski, outlining a constellation of miniatures that are fluid, elegant, poetic, and at times restless.

More than a simple anthology, Pensées fugitives takes shape as a reflection on fleetingness as an authentic aesthetic category: sound emerges as an intangible and temporary medium, yet one capable of unlocking profound emotional truths. Providing a backdrop to the entire project are the verses of the Symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont, whose spiritual presence lends the journey an evocative dimension suspended between appearance and fading, memory and vision.