Théotime Langlois De Swarte and Tanguy De Williencourt's new CD is Gramophone's ‘Editor's Choice of the month’
Théotime Langlois De Swarte and Tanguy De Williencourt new CD ‘Proust, Le Concert Retrouvé’ is Gramophone’s ‘Editor's Choice’ for May 2021’
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What makes the album so incredibly moving, though, is the way it takes us into Proust’s mind. The infinite subtleties of his fiction, teasing out complex gradations of feeling and sensibility, find their counterparts in sound here. Listening to it complete and in the correct running order, you realise that Proust’s programme, almost imperceptibly darkening in mood as it goes, both suggests in embryo the emotional trajectory of À la recherche du temps perdu and lays bare the remarkable musical imagination that informs it. The almost daunting near-juxtaposition of Couperin with Wagner is indicative of his tremendous breadth of reference. And his understanding of the closeness in temperament between Schumann and Fauré is little short of astounding. Proust describes the Fauré Sonata in Sodome et Gomorrhe as ‘inquiet, tourmenté, schumannesque’, which is precisely what it is, and precisely how it sounds here, in close proximity to ‘Des Abends’. It’s a breathtaking, astonishing disc, and I cannot recommend it too highly.
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Watch Théotime Langlois de Swarte (Violin Stradivari “Davidoff” 1708) and Tanguy de Williencourt (piano Érard 1891) give a short presentation of ‘Proust, Le Concert Retrouvé’
‘‘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