In the immense edifice of À la Recherche du temps perdu, what reader of Proust's does not remember the eminent poetic role played by Vinteuil's Sonata for violin and piano, with its magnetic "little phrase"? The three scores offered in this programme deliver the quintessence of the genre in the French sphere: the perfect balance of the four movements of Fauré's Sonata (1875), full of melodic charm; the feverish intensity of Saint-Saëns' score (1885), which is said to have been a direct inspiration for Proust; the modernity shaded with jazz of Ravel's work (1927), with its fearsomely virtuoso Finale.
Types
- Music
- Music
- Classical music
- Concert