The episode title circulated in press listings is blunt: « Si on n’entend plus la voix des artistes ukrainiens, le pays n’existe plus » (9 April 2026). On France Musique’s « L’invité(e) du jour », Natacha Kudritskaya presents her Couperin album for 1001 Notes and speaks as both pianist and cultural advocate.
The argument is not metaphorical. Since 2022 she has repeated that a nation’s existence is inseparable from its living culture — concerts cancelled, musicians displaced, archives threatened. Silence on stages is not neutrality; it is erasure.
Couperin supplies the poetic counterweight: titles filled with birds — travellers, lovers, fragile mechanisms — allow her to discuss migration without turning the interview into a bulletin of horrors. Baroque grace carries contemporary urgency.
Listeners hear extracts from the new recording and conversation about Salle Gaveau, upcoming dates, and solidarity networks. For the festival, this broadcast is the sound of an artist we present in July: technically lucid, politically articulate, unwilling to separate beauty from responsibility.
Follow the link to the full podcast; pair it with the Matinale episode (same week) for a double portrait — morning poetry and daytime debate.
