François-Bernard Mâche (b. 1935)
Styx (1984), for two pianos, four hands
Areg (1977), for two pianos
Mesarthim (1987), for two pianos
Léthé (1985), for two pianos, four hands
Nocturne (1981), for piano plus tape

Maurice Ohana (1913-1992)
Sorôn-Ngô (1969), for two pianos

 

Born into a family of musicians in 1935, François-Bernard Mâche studied classics and archaeology at the Ecole Normale Supérieur in Paris, while working under Pierre Schaeffer at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales and in Olivier Messiaen's class at the Conservatoire. This musical background left him with a fascination with nature, animal cries and primary elemental noises, and an interest in recorded sound. Many of his works mingle recorded noises and the sound of instruments, as in his Rituel d'oubli (1969), Korwar (1972) and Kassandra (1977). Other principal sources of inspiration have been literature and myth