Special envoy to La Roque-d'Anthéron (Bouches-du-Rhône)
The photos scroll to the rhythm of Gluck's little melody.
The camera fixes his face in close-up.
Behind those long eyelashes, which so fascinated Martha Argerich the day they first met, her clear eyes of "blissful spirit" misted with tears.
Is he thinking of the one playing on the recording?
His heroine, Guiomar Novaes,
"passion of a life since childhood"
?
To this childhood, where
"loneliness has always been there"
, as confirmed by a moving letter from his father, a few shots later.
Unless he is thinking of music.
To those three minutes of a moment of grace taken from
Orfeo e euridice
, arranged by the virtuoso Giovanni Sgambati in the 19th century.
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These thirty-eight very simple bars, Nelson Freire had made a favorite encore.
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