Join Camille Thomas as she presents music from her second Deutsche Grammophon album, Voice of Hope, against the backdrop of a series of beautiful Parisian settings. This film, in which the Franco-Belgian cellist talks about her repertoire choices and the power of music and other forms of culture to help us in times of adversity, features her performances of Ravel’s Kaddisch and an extract from Never Give Up – the concerto written for her by Fazil Say – as well as arrangements of songs and operatic excerpts by Purcell, Gluck, Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Massenet, Dvořák and Wagner. 

Fazil Say
Never Give Up (Cello Concerto): II Terror – Elegy
Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas: “When I am laid in Earth”
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: “Dalla sua pace”
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: “Casta diva”
Gaetano Donizetti
L’elisir d’amore: “Una furtiva lagrima”
Jules Massenet
Werther: “Pourquoi me réveiller”
Antonín Dvořák
Gypsy Melodies: IV Songs My Mother Taught Me
Richard Wagner
Wesendonck-Lieder: V Träume
Maurice Ravel
Deux mélodies hébraïques: I Kaddisch

Camille Thomas cello
Brussels Philharmonic
Mathieu Herzog
Stéphane Denève (Never Give Up)

Directed by Martin Mirabel