But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone forever.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

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