Camille Thomas & Julien Brocal – II Larghetto (excerpt) from Piano concerto No.1 in E minor,

CELLO Camille Thomas PIANO Julien Brocal VIDEO DIRECTOR Julien Hanck - Arpeggio Films Filmed at Abbaye de Clairvaux Thank you to the Ministère de la Justice staff at the Abbaye de Clairvaux for their warm welcome About this video : In a letter to Tytus, Chopin wrote: “this larghetto is not intended to create a powerful effect; it is rather a romance, calm and melancholy, giving the impression of someone gazing gently towards a place that reminds him of a thousand happy memories. It’s a sort of moonlit reverie on a beautiful spring evening.“ A journey in three chapters to discover Chopin’s life through the sound of the cello. The most ambitious project of the Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas. Camille Thomas plays on the Franchomme’s mythical cello - the Stradivarius Feuermann. The Chopin’s sonata for cello and piano was dedicated to his friend Auguste-Joseph Franchomme. Franchomme transcribed the Chopin’s piano pieces for cello after knowing Chop