A hint to the title of my friend Guillaume Métayers collection of sonnets (Caractères, 2017), Libre Jeu is in three movements. The three movements may be played individually. When conceiving them, I had in mind the characteristic style Bach uses when writing for solo string instruments (violin or cello).

As I tend to place more emphasis on harmony, I decided to treat an essentially monodie instrument in a way that would create the impression of a harmonie, even polyphonie texture. Hence a me...