No matter how prepared he was, he couldn't hold back his tears.
"If I had been told that one day I would cry at the end of the
Angels in my campaigns,
which I had to direct hundreds of times…"
, confides Henri Chalet, still overcome with emotion.
Last Saturday, for the first time since April 2019, the head of the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris returned to the cathedral for a single concert, with eight of its singers.
A performance without an audience but filmed by France Télévisions and in which also participated the soprano Julie Fuchs, the cellist Gautier Capuçon as well as the choral organist Yves Castagnet, installed at the keyboard of a positive organ conveyed for the occasion.
This moment of music
"Out of time, which was also a moment of hope for all the musicians gathered at that time"
, estimates Gautier Capuçon, will be broadcast on December 24 as part of an evening around Notre-Dame, presented by Stéphane Bern on France 2, before the broadcast of the mass of
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