Les Lamentations du Phoenix — orchestra version substantially expands the 2010–11 ensemble work into a concerto for piano and orchestra. Composed in 2017, it preserves the original dramatic trajectory — from mysterious stillness through eruptions of anger towards a final withdrawal — while enlarging its scale, instrumental forces and expressive range.

The piano, already central to the earlier work, now assumes a fully concertante role. Expressive and virtuosic solo writing confronts an orchestra that moves between individual voices and shifting collective masses. Melodic lines, sudden impacts and accumulating densities continually reshape the relationship between soloist and ensemble, carrying the music between melancholy, violence and resonance.

The phoenix is approached not as a literal narrative of destruction and rebirth, but as an image through which contrasting emotional states are transformed. Moments of force and expansion gradually recede towards a more fragile and suspended state, preserving the arch-like form of the original while opening it into a broader confrontation between pianistic individuality and orchestral space.