Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – A concert at the time of Proust (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – A concert at the time of Proust (2021)
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On July 1st, 1907, Marcel Proust invited a few of his friends to a private concert he was hosting at the Ritz Hotel. In a letter he wrote two days later to Reynaldo Hahn, the host described the eclectic nature of the programme. Composers of his day were featured side by side with the masters of the past and of more recent date: Fauré, Wagner, Schumann, Chopin, and Couperin. In recreating the recital’s wide range of periods and styles, Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt also revive the intimacy of the Parisian fin-de-siècle salons and transport us into the fertile musical universe evoked in the pages of In Search of Lost Time.

‘Not only do I like, admire, and adore your music, I have fallen in love with it, and am still smitten,’ wrote the young Marcel Proust to Gabriel Fauré in 1897. And added, ‘I know your work well enough to write a 300-page volume about it.’ Clearly, In Search of Lost Time is not a book devoted to Fauré, but this composer occupies a more important place therein than has been noted. Along with Reynaldo Hahn, Fauré was the mentor and guiding light of the author’s early years when the young man drew on his conversations with the master and on a re-hearing of Fauré’s scores to expand his musical knowledge and creative thought: ‘I spoke at great length with Fauré last night,’ a 24-year-old Proust confided to Hahn as early as 1895.

Tracklist:
01. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – À Chloris (03:04)
02. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Fantasiestücke, Op. 12: Des Abends (03:42)
03. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major “Raindrop” (05:38)
04. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op.13: I. Allegro molto (08:37)
05. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op.13: II. Andante (06:39)
06. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op.13: III.Scherzo. Allegro Vivo (03:46)
07. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op.13: IV. Finale. Allegro quasi presto (05:05)
08. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Berceuse, Op. 16 (03:26)
09. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Second livre de pièces de Clavecin, Ordre VI: V. Les Barricades mystérieuses (02:27)
10. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Trois mélodies, Op. 7: I. Après un Reve (02:28)
11. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat, Op. 63 (08:37)
12. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – Isoldens Liebestod, S. 447 (After Richard Wagner “Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90”) (07:28)
13. Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt – 7 Chansons grises: V. L’Heure exquise (01:55)

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