Dear subscribers,
Welcome to this forty-fourth edition of Classical Instants, your letter exclusively dedicated to classical music and opera.
An edition under the sign of the 150 years of one of our greatest writers:
Marcel Proust
.
The latter was not just the simple music lover that has often been described.
He was a passionate musicographer, very familiar with the fashions of his time.
This is evidenced by the carefully crafted program for the after-dinner concert he organized in July 1907 at the Ritz in tribute to
Gaston Calmette
.
A program that the young
Théotime Langlois de Swarte
and
Tanguy de Williencourt
bring back to us with exquisite refinement, in their latest album at
Harmonia Mundi
.
The innumerable musical references secretly inserted in
The Search for Lost Time
, which the exegete
Cécile Leblanc
reveals to us
in the libretto of this album, and especially in her past work
Marcel Proust, music writer
, bear witness to this as well
.
The researcher
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