Weaving a link between the past and the future, the turn of a century expressed through the music of Brahms and Alban Berg Jérôme Comte, how did the idea for this album come to you? "Two reasons: first of all, my meeting with the pianist Denis Pascal, with whom the essential rapport needed to tackle Brahms’s two Sonatas op. 120 naturally developed, two indispensable masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire. Then, my desire to weave a link between the past and the future at the turn of the century, perhaps due to professional deformation from my position as principal clarinet at L'Ensemble Intercontemporain."