"2015 is the year I wanted to mark in honor of Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday. My professional career began by working for Boulez in 1981. [...] Now, in 2015, we have the opening of the Philharmonie de Paris.

Pierre Boulez’ on-going combat at the heart of public life, arts and media, for almost seven decades, is exceptional in history of music. This solo CD is the reissue of three major works of the repertoire. 'Dialogue de l’ombre double' by Pierre Boulez for bassoon and electronics, that I wanted to record alongside the 'Sequenza XII' for solo bassoon by Luciano Berio and 'Torsion for bassoon and CD' by Olga Neuwirth. Berio was a friend of very beginning and has created a quite revolutionary approach to the bassoon. We were able to work together for almost ten years before the world premiere of 'Sequenza XII', in June 1995, while in November of the same year I created the version of 'Dialogue de l’ombre double' for bassoon and electronics. [...]

With 'Dialogue de l'ombre double', Boulez stage-manages the bassoon in a ritual incantation while Olga Neuwirth asks the bassoonist to journey through the labyrinths of Daniel Libeskind’s “bold” architecture. Boulez conducted the works of Olga Neuwirth with major orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic." - Patrick Gallois