Les Céphéides

Allain Gaussin: Les céphéides, trio for violin, cello and piano - AL 30 735 For more than forty years, Allain Gaussin, fascinated by astrophysics, has found a major source of inspiration in observing the cosmos, as attest a numberof works going from Vent solaire (1974) to Philae (2015), by way of L_x001A_Harmonie des sphères (2006).

Ten years later, the 'Messiaen du Pays de la Meije' Festival hosted the first performance of the piano trio Les Céphéides. Themusical journey enables the listener to enter a space 'just as impalpable and fragile' as that in which moves each Cepheid variable x001A this star whose brightness varies over regular periods according to two elements: the diameterof the heavenly body and the temperature reading of its surface.