You don't have to be a believer to experience the comfort and transcendence that certain sacred music offers. Passions, lessons of darkness, Easter oratorios… These works, which for many are among the most inspired and inspiring in the history of music, usually flourish everywhere, in churches and concert halls, in days before Easter Sunday. Attracting an audience of both faithful and "simple" music lovers. An observation shared by the founder of the Folle Journée de Nantes, René Martin, who directs several sacred music festivals in France. It was to respond to this audience that he had the idea of proposing to pianist Anne Queffélec, always animated by this quest for transcendence, to post every day since Tuesday and until this evening, "times of meditation in music ”.
When I play, I don't play for a tablet but for the invisible. It's not that far from concerts. When I play for an audience, I always hope to address their invisible part
Anne QueffélecShort pieces, selected according to the day, calling for contemplation, introspection, but also the hope that time suggests
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