Concert

Trio Rombach for clarinet, cello and piano
Echo's Bones for soprano, clarinet and piano
Ictus creation for bass clarinet
Romeo & Juliet, by Olivier Cadiot: Now the Fields... extract from the opera, version for soprano, clarinet, cello

Commissioned or revived by the ensemble Accroche Note directed by Armand Angster, these compositions favour the physics of the musical phrase, its rhythms, its cuts, its attenuations then its returns. It is music that goes quickly, conjuring energy networks, then exhausts itself into a subtle and tender digression, before starting again, like the phoenix rising from its ashes. Fairly close, in the end, to Samuel Beckett's Echo's Bones, the very young poet with his rapid but substantial language, whose five chiselled works are spoken in the second movement of the concert, echoing the texts written by Olivier Cadiot, recited by Pascal Dusapin himself. ADB