She concedes it in a whisper, like a confidence:
“When I held it in my hands for the first time, when I started to slide the bow on its strings, I felt overwhelmed by its story.
But it was not an intellectual emotion.
It was physical.
I really had heart palpitations.
A little mystical too, no doubt.
His instrument, Salomé Gasselin could talk about it for hours.
While the Folle Journée de Nantes, where this native of Bauges is performing this weekend, is in full swing, the young 29-year-old musician does not let go of a sole.
Even during meals.
“Most of the other musicians leave their instrument in the room next door, or a few meters further.
I prefer to keep it under the table
,” she laughs in a warm voice that evokes the fatness and roundness of her viol.
A Simon Bongars from 1653.
"In any case, that's what you think you read on the original label, but the latter is half erased"
, concedes that…
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