| Title: | Eclairs sur l'Au-Delà |
| English title: | Illuminations of the Beyond |
| Genre: | orchestral |
| Composition Date: | 1988-92 |
| Publisher: | Leduc (Paris) |
| Instrumentation: | 10.4.10.4, 6.5.3.3, crotales, glockenspiel, xylophone, xylorimba, marimba, 10 percussion, 16.16.14.12.10 |
| Duration: | 62 minutes |
| Premiere: | 5 November, 1992, Avery Fisher Hall, New York (New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta conductor) . |
| Dedication: | |
| Movements: |
- Apparition du Christ glorieux [Vision of Christ Glorified]
- La constellation du Sagittaire [The Constellation of Sagitarius]
- L'Oiseau-lyre et la Ville-Fiancée [The lyre bird and the bridal city]
- Les élus marqués du scaeu [The elect marked with the seal]
- Demeurer dans l'Amour . . . [Abide in love]
- Les sept anges aux sept trompettes [The seven angels with the seven trumpets]
- Et Dieu essuiera toute larme de leurs yeux . . . [And God will wipe away all the tears from their eyes . . .]
- Les étoiles et la Gloire [The stars and the glory]
- Plusiers oiseaux des arbres de la Vie [More birds than there are living trees]
- Le chemin de l'invisible [The way of the invisible]
- Le Christ, lumière du Paradis [Christ, light of paradise]
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| Notes: |
- Commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the New York Philharmonic.
- Composed under the working title Prélude.
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