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 A journey in three chapters to discover Chopin s life through the sound of the cello. The most ambitious project of the FrancoBelgian cellist Camille Thomas. Camille Thomas plays on the Franchommes mythical cello the Stradivarius Feuermann. The Chopins sonata for cello and piano was dedicated to his friend AugusteJoseph Franchomme. Franchomme transcribed the Chopins piano pieces for cello after knowing Chop