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Lucas Debargue

4 days ago

Happy to present to you my PIANO TRIO no. 2 !👇YOUTUBE link in comments. 👇Here it is : the June premiere in Festival des Forêts - Compiègne (France), played by the incomparable David Castrobalbi and Alexandre Castro-Balbi, recorded and filmed by the impeccable Charly Mandon - Chronos Productions.
::: A little more about the creation of the trio.
When I finished working on the 3rd (!) version of my first piano trio in February 2019, I could hardly imagine I would write a second one 5 years after - and for the same friends, with whom we play together as a trio for 10 years already !
“In what style do you write?”, “What’s your music about?” - these questions, often asked to me as a composer, don’t reflect anything I could associate with my writing. I don’t compose in any “style”; this word, for me, has nothing to do with music but with a certain way of looking at it (rather than listening), putting it into boxes. Neither do I write “about” anything. I hear music inside me and do my best to transcribe it with notes.
The initial inspiration can come at any time: for this trio, the main theme (which opens the piece directly, without introduction) simply appeared in my mind while I was on vacation for a day in August 2024 at my father’s place in the south of France. I wrote down this four-bar melody, and then the music “worked by itself” in my mind for a while before I could write it down. The second theme came to me naturally, derived from the first — they’re rhythmically complementary and not very opposed in character. During this phase, I can hear the theme in the bass, or in the major mode, or modulating, or augmented, diminished, reversed… The music develops like a lucid dream. I never use any instrument, so as not to “pollute” the process with what I would see as self-indulgent instrumentalism: I reserve composition at the instrument for the moment of improvisation.
The first movement was entirely sketched in September 2024.The idea for the second movement, a restless scherzo, directly derives from the main theme of the first movement and introduces all the musical material for the third — also derived from the original thematic material exposed in the first movement. It demands merciless virtuosity and nerve from all three musicians.The third movement, a largo, imposed itself as a finale. While the first two movements are in classical sonata form, this one required a custom-made structure, tending toward symphonic grandeur.
I never think of particular feelings, colors, or atmospheres when I compose: I am simply swimming in the music itself. But afterwards, it’s very common for me to poetically associate some of my pieces with words - and also share the « making off » of it as I just did, a posteriori. With this trio, I somehow associate the first two movements with “the sea” and the last one with a prayer. But that doesn’t mean the music is supposed to communicate this specifically to the listener: someone may hear fire where someone else hears water, etc. I don’t believe that music can describe anything; when it seems to, it’s because words have been added to it as an introduction or a comment.
I hope you enjoy this music as much as I do… LD" ... Voir plusVoir moins

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