Gramophone Magazine
May 2021
Recording of the Month

Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Theotime Langlois de Swart (violin)

Hahn, R: A Chloris
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 No. 1 'Des Abends'
Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop'
Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
Fauré: Berceuse, Op. 16
Couperin, F: Les baricades mistérieuses (from Pièces de clavecin II: Ordre 6ème in B flat)
Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1
Fauré: Nocturne No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 63
Liszt: Isolde's Liebestod (after Wagner), S447
Hahn, R: L'heure exquise

On 1 July 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.

"It’s a breathtaking, astonishing disc, and I cannot recommend it too highly." - Gramophone Magazine, May 2021.