About This Song
About "Sonate pour hautbois et piano, Op. 185: Deploration (1962)" by Alexandre Gattet
Deploration is Poulenc's elegy for Prokofiev, written months before his own death. The oboe's long, unaccompanied line hangs like a thread of smoke over piano's hollow chords. Gattet plays with devastating restraintâeach phrase a quiet surrender, grief distilled into breath and silence.