Program

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  I - PROUST IN LOVE — Reynaldo & Marcel
  
  “One is always inspired when speaking of what one loves. The truth is that one should never speak of anything else.” (Letter from Proust to Hahn)
  
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  Songs & Waltzes
  

  Si mes vers avaient des ailes
  Infidélité
  Mai
  Dans la nuit

  Valse pour piano: Pas vite, simplement (à l'ombre rêveuse de Chopin)

  À Chloris
  Tyndaris
  Fêtes galantes
  Quand je fus pris au pavillon

  Valse pour piano: Avec élégance

  L'heure exquise

   

  Reynaldo Hahn
  (1874-1947)
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  II. THE LITTLE PHRASE — Swann & Odette
  
  “. . . the little phrase by Vinteuil which was, so to speak, the national anthem of their love.” (from Swann’s Way)
  
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  Passage from “Swann in Love”
  

  “In Search of Lost Time” Swann’s Way, Vol. 1

            translated and read by Richard Howard

   

  Marcel Proust
  (1871-1922)
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  Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75 (1885)
  

  Allegro Agitato — Adagio 
  Allegro Moderato — Allegro Molto

   

  Camille Saint-Saëns
  (1835-1921)
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  III. SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT — Proust & Music
  
  “For some years Beethoven’s last quartets and the music of Franck has been my principal spiritual nourishment” (Proust to Mme. Albert Hecht, March 1916)
  
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  Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 7 (1878-79)
  

  Molto moderato
  Lento
  Allegro non troppo 

   

  César Franck
  (1822-1890)