... En reflet(s) à 4. Kleines romantisches Album

After Quatre manières d'oiseau, the Concerto à plumes is a new tribute to the order of birds. Throughout these three movements for solo clarinet, the music is inspired by the energy of these birds (here cormorant, sparrows and starlings), the contrast between their stillness, their light gait and their sudden flashes of brilliance. If the piece does not use contemporary techniques, it remains no less demanding, both in terms of the quality of emission and the lightness of the fingers as well as the mastery of detachment. The writing is rich in contrasting nuances, large intervals, asymmetrical measures… The vivacity reaches its peak in the last movement, Étourneaux, with its Eastern European colors. The ensemble nevertheless remains accessible to third-cycle instrumentalists. Guillaume Druel