TANGUY DE WILLIENCOURT and THÉOTIME LANGLOIS DE SWARTE release new CD ‘PROUST-LE CONCERT RETROUVÉ’ with harmonia mundi

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 the composer 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 Proust’s novel, ‘In Search Of Lost Time’.

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‘‘A few months after a marvellous disc entitled ‘The Mad Lover’ Théotime Langlois de Swarte brings a new proof of his art - and of his eclecticism... the violinist brings to everything he touches a poetry and a correctness of feeling which indicate an outstanding performer... Hahn's ‘L'Heure exquise’, a piece in which the sound grain of T. Langlois de Swarte gives us a magical moment.

The pianist, Tanguy de Williencourt, shows himself to be a total accomplice of his partner, attentive to the slightest inflection of the bow: an admirable duo.

On the solo piano side, the result is just as convincing, whether with Schumann, Chopin, Couperin or Fauré.’’

Alain Cochard - concertclassics.com