Le Pont de pierre is a cycle of four melodies for voice and piano based on texts by the philosopher. The first, which gives its title to the collection, flirts with functional tonality; the minor colors give it a melancholy that a repeated knell in the bass draws towards the funereal.

In "La vie passe" (Life Passes), the bells are omnipresent, with their effects of inharmonicity; marked morendo, the second part is bathed in a feeling of inevitability.

"Je crois, je n'y crois pas... " is t...