Catherine Collard wished to meet Annie Girardot to express her admiration for her talent as an actress. This encounter led to a very open exchange about the similarities between the professions of actress and instrumentalist, as well as the difficulties specific to their artistic journeys. They also sincerely discuss the low periods they went through in their careers. To musically punctuate this program, Catherine Collard and Sonia Wieder-Atherton engage in a musical dialogue in studio 119 of Maison de la Radio, performing the 1st movement of Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in E minor op. 38, the finale of César Franck’s Sonata in A major, the 2nd movement of Frédéric Chopin’s Sonata in G minor op. 65, and an excerpt from Manuel de Falla’s Suite populaire espagnole.
