In numerous passages from "In Search of Lost Time", Marcel Proust describes an imaginary violin and piano sonata composed by the fictitious Monsieur Vinteuil. The attention to detail in his descriptions has led to the search for a real model for this work, which many composers have believed to be César Franck’s Violin Sonata. A performance of this work is interspersed here with readings of passages from Proust’s novel.

00:00 Reading 1: Swann's Way, in "In Search of Lost Time"

César Franck (1822-1890)
Sonata in A major for violin and piano
04:27 Allegretto molto moderato
10:28 Reading 2: Swann's Way, in "In Search of Lost Time"
13:25 Allegro
21:31 Reading 3: Swann's Way, in "In Search of Lost Time"
25:12 Recitativo-Fantasía. Molto moderato
32:32 Reading 4: Swann's Way, in "In Search of Lost Time"
34:48 Allegretto poco mosso

Birgit Kolar, violin. Malcolm Martineau, piano. Carlos Hipólito, narrator

Concert "The Vinteuil Sonata" from the cycle "The Musical Universe of Marcel Proust"
https://www.march.es/events/100830/

24 May 2017
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

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