Although very different from the ""Tango en skaï"", this piece has also brought me a certain measure of fame as a composer, and has been recorded dozens of times. Itwas originally written for guitar, double bass and percussion, following a major operation I underwent in the early 1980s. Its three movements are an explicitportrayal of that very particular period of my life: first the chaotic ""India"" (before the operation), then the ""Largo"" (during it) and finally the ""Fuoco"", in which theunrestrained rhythms depict a veritable incarnation of my return to life (and several guitarists often play this last movement as an independent piece). I can but begrateful for the success of the ""Libra Sonatine"", a triptych which has familiar sounds for today's youth at the crossroads of this new and changing century. (R.D.)