Rare classics
Calmette, the controversial editor of Le Figaro. The choice of music, from a pièce de clavecin by Couperin to Liszt’s transcription of the from Wagner’s , provides a remarkable insight in the mind of this most fastidious, yet at the same time most impassioned, of music lovers. Fauré’s first Violin Sonata sits at the heart of the programme, a work Proust describes in as ‘inquiet, tourmenté, schumannesque’.
