About Love

Universal and timeless, love remains an infinite source of beauty and creation.

"Composed in 1850, Schumann's Cello Concerto is a work that has always captivated and fascinated me. Its deeply Romantic character never slips into pathos. With depth, delicacy, and an inner fire, Robert Schumann creates a powerful and subtle dialogue between the cello and the orchestra.

Inspired by the elegance and clarity of the eighteenth century, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed in 1876 a work of luminous grace, in which the cello engages in a finely balanced dialogue with the orchestra: the Variations on a Rococo Theme, a work I have cherished for as long as I can remember"
- Julie Sévilla-Fraysse

"I wrote About Love for Julie Sévilla-Fraysse, inspired by her beautiful playing, which I admire so deeply, and by a friendship that means a great deal to me. Some feelings are easier to share through music than through words, and the cello, with its warmth and vulnerability, feels especially close to that kind of unguarded expression"
- Polina Nazaykinskaya"