William Christie, Cultiver l’émotion. Conversation with Emmanuel Resche-Caserta

10 × 19 cm 224 pages softback september 2021 retail price: 13.99 €

Emmanuel Resche-Caserta is a Franco-Italian violinist born in 1988. After studying literature, art history and political sciences, he decided to devote himself exclusively to ancient music. He trained at the cnsmdp, in Barcelona and Palermo, and at the Juilliard School in New York where he met William Christie. In 2017 he went on to become the solo violinist with Les Arts Florissants orchestra.

Cultiver l’émotion

WILLIAM CHRISTIE

Cultivate emotion

Conversation with Emmanuel Resche-Caserta

“Dreaming means reaching out to people, as I have always done. I want to make people happy. That I know. Music has an ability to win hearts. That’s why, for my well-being, I don’t want to become the director of a foundation and retire to Thiré. That’s impossible. I like hunting, I’m curious, I like to travel. I’m a seducer. In my finest moments, I have been able to turn seduction into a noble art. Naturally I’m obsessed by Thiré and by the project. I constantly travel back and forth to see how the work is progressing and check on my garden, but there are other things in life. I can’t imagine life without concerts. I’ve been told I’ve reached an age where I should slow down. I always just smile back.” William Christie

Aharpsichord player, orchestra conductor, teacher, passionate gardener, and member of the Fine Arts academy who has lived in France since 1971, the American William Christie is the artisan of one of the most remarkable musical adventures in the last forty years. In 2018 he created the Arts Florissants-William Christie Foundation, dedicated to teaching baroque music and gardens, to which he has decided to devote his heritage. For this series of previously unpublished interviews, William Christie elected to confide in his lead violinist, Emmanuel Resche-Caserta. Far from a critical assessment, this book offers an open conversation about music, the arts and life, a touching portrait of the musician’s personal world. Even though there is a generation between the two musicians, the interviews reveal their sincere friendship and deep mutual trust.

Together they talk about the aesthetics, exploration and career of the Franco-American conductor, from his childhood in the United States via the mythical Arys, to the challenges that inspire William Christie today. The interviews cover the travelogue of his six month world tour from New York to Venice, via London, Saragossa, Paris and Thiré, as well as his daily and personal life.