Sonia Wieder-Atherton was Augustin Trapenard’s guest.
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“I chose music for its ability to say things I couldn’t understand in words. Music also tells a story, and the cello was my first storytelling tool.
A tale in two stages, “like freeze-frames, like incursions into time”: first Couperin’s Les leçons de ténèbres, or the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah.
Prophecy is the time of the future. Before the destruction and the tears: “we hear the song of the prophet who mourns, but the possibility that it won’t happen still exists”.
