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26 FAURÉ ∙ THE MUSIC FOR CELLO AND PIANO Cédric Tiberghien: Yes, as a pianist I felt more resistance from the music as I worked on it! I often asked myself: why does he write like that, what’s he trying to say? I was left without an answer. The more you try to take this music apart, the more its miraculous equilibrium escapes you! I compare it to the principle of quantum physics: when you observe something, the simple fact of observing it changes its state. In Fauré everything is in the ‘in between’. You can’t clearly distinguish or separate melody and harmony. If you try to, the music resists you. The more you step back, the more you look at it as a whole, the more unified, the clearer his music appears. As long as you don’t try to interact with it too much, it flows naturally. To work on Fauré, you need to let go, to have confidence in the intrinsic beauty of his music. What was natural for Xavier from the start required that process of realisation on my part. I had to accept not to understand, but only to be amazed.