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On ne choisit pas impunément de constituer un trio à cordes quand on est musiciens de jazz – Français de surcroît ! – sans qu’immanquablement à un moment ou à un autre vienne planer sur la musique que l’on invente l’ombre immense de Django Reinhardt.

The program on this CD focuses on two essential aspects of Pierre Boulez's uvre: his love of theater and his consistent search for ways of spatializing sounds through electronics.In "Dialogue de l'ombre double" from 1985 it is still a pre-produced tape recorded by the interpreter himself which, together with the live sounds, symbolizes the clarinetist's "double shadow". In "Anthèmes 2", written around ten years later, the acoustic labyrinth in which the soloist finds herself is generated entirely by means of live electronics. The basic idea for this was already laid out in "Anthèmes 1" for solo violin, created in 1991 as a mandatory work for the Yehudi Menuhin competition.Pierre Boulez has worked with the SWR Experimental Studio since it was founded in the early 1970s. In this recording the instrumental parts were excellently cast with Carolin and Jorg Widmann.

Pierre Boulez (b. 1925), French composer, conductor, and music theorist, is regarded as a leading composer of the post-Webern serialist movement who also embraced elements of aleatory and electronics. As a child Boulez demonstrated a formidable aptitude in mathematics, but left for Paris in 1942 to enroll in the Paris Conservatoire. His studies there often ran into difficulties, as he was rapidly developing revolutionary – "Praise be to amnesia" – attitudes towards all things traditional. But two decisive influences during those years helped to shape his musical personality.