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24 CHAUSSON, RAVEL ∙ TRIOS FOR PIANO, VIOLIN AND CELLO Victor Metral: I would qualify the notion of light mentioned by Laure-Hélène. Obviously, it remains sombre in Chausson’s music and testifies to an emotion laden with the shadows of Late Romanticism. In Ravel, the light is produced by a flexible, galvanising, almost transcendental impulse. It’s a universe very much his own, which can’t be confused with that of Debussy, for example. Nowadays, performing artists can’t disregard the great recorded documents of the past. But that doesn’t mean it’s just a question of redoing what has already been admirably achieved. The requirements for performance, and even more so for recording, are no longer the same as they were fifty years ago. So we are following a tradition while also striving to be ourselves.