Catherine Ceylac receives the writer Eric-Emmanuel SCHMITT. Interviewed about Mozart, he explains: "If he is so popular, it is because he is a great comforter". Further on, he explains why he wanted to talk about Mozart: "I wanted to talk about Mozart, to talk about him as a guide, a teacher of life, a philosopher, someone who helps me to be a man...".
Dominique Verdailhan welcomes singer Claude Nougaro. Interviewed about the music that led him to the song, he explains: "My childhood was marked with the red and gold of the theatre and the amazing theatre that is the lyric, that really, it crossed me with emotions and then in my school childhood, I began to listen on the radio the first accents of a music from elsewhere, the jazz music".
Jean-Christophe AVERTY listened to Tino Rossi, Maurice Chevalier when he was a child; this compost broke out in 1942. Each song is a Proust madeleine. He refers to the program "Les Cinglés du music-hall", in which he associates a song with its social, historical context.
Eve Ruggieri receives Yann Queffelec who evokes her love for Mozart’s music. He explains the origin: "My mother played the "Turkish March" to me when I was a very small child and I remember the music even before I saw her on the piano and I believe that I linked with Mozart a kind of lifelong passion". He admits a special tenderness for the opera "Cosi fan tutte".
Catherine Ceylac receives Roselyne BACHELOT, MP RPR. Interviewed about her musical tastes, she says: "I love Callas and right now I live with "Carmen".
Alain DUAULT receives Jacques TOUBON, Minister of Culture and La Francophonie. On this occasion, Jacques Toubon evokes his love for the music of Schumann, he explains: "This is what is best in piano and then from the point of view of the atmosphere, it is probably what I prefer. I am not a great absolute piano lover, but Schumann on the other hand, I like it a lot".
BARBARA speaks of Jacques Brel "L'homme de spectacle le plus complet qui soit", of Brassens "L'homme qui écrit le mieux", of Johnny Hallyday "Un homme de spectacle que je trouve extraordinaire", of Nana Mouskouri "La femme qui chante le mieux en France", and then "I love Serge Gainsbourg, I love Nougaro, Françoise Hardy is a woman-flower, Madame Gréco a woman-fur...".
Interviewed, Jacques DUTRONC says of his musical tastes. What I like the most is middle jazz, the big jazz bands, everything that Charlie Parker did I like very much, and then in classical it’s Ravel".