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TRIO METRAL 19 Generally speaking, we like to tell each other stories, to describe landscapes and sensations: that helps us to look for the sound we want, to find the right emotion. It’s easier to convey an emotion to the audience when that emotion is sufficiently defined for us to relate it to specific mental images. Justine — Of the three works on this disc, this trio is probably the one in which our interpretation has developed the most – which is partly because it’s a key repertory work that we’ve frequently been asked to play. But that’s not all. With the specific impetus of preparing for the recording, we started to work on the sound in a new way. Sometimes Joseph and I would remove half the length of the bow so as to work on the tension we invested in a phrase, in a note. The biggest issue was how to make this music live through sheer sound rather than rhetoric or construction. Victor — The recording turned out to be an edifying experience for our perception of this trio. In a sense, we relearned the work by drawing a line under our habits and reflexes, not remaining content with just recording our interpretation ‘as it stood’.