Julien Libeer, Camille Thomas

“To grasp the passing phrase or harmony – he did not know which – that had expanded his soul.” For Proust, music offers a way into our soul, famously represented by Vinteuil’s Sonata in À la recherche du temps perdu. Music casts an anchor to lost times, an ethereal magic that spans ages and epochs and leads us back to what is essential, opening a way to our memories and our most inexpressible spiritual states. This sonata by Franck, just like the songs of Duparc, Fauré and Saint-­Saëns, could stand in for that phrase from Vinteuil’s Sonata: they are recollections of the sublime.

Flagey