While recording their album The Vinteuil Sonata, which explores Marcel Proust’s musical inspirations, sisters Maria and Nathalie Milstein were filmed playing the two Reynaldo Hahn song transcriptions that appear on the Mirare disc. This film is by UNIK ACCESS (images Bénédicte Banet and sound Franck Jaffrès).
The video and recording was partly funded by Maria Milstein’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship prize.
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