Renaud Capuçon, Les Siècles, Duncan Ward – Les choses de la vie (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon, Les Siècles, Duncan Ward – Les choses de la vie (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:01 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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Six years after the success of the album “Cinema”, here is the long-awaited new tribute by the violinist Renaud Capuçon to the French composers of film music.
“The idea of this new disc bringing together French film music composers was born about ten years ago during conversations with my friend Jacques Chancel. He told me a lot about Georges Delerue and Pierre Schoendorfer, who had worked together on Dien Bien Phu. Two or three years ago, thinking back on these conversations, I rediscovered Delerue’s music, and I realized what an extraordinary composer he was. In tribute to their talent, to the friendship between these men who have now disappeared, I wanted to make this album around the most eminent French composers of the 7th Art: Delerue, Sarde, Legrand, Jarre, Kosma, de Roubaix, Petit, Cosma, Lai, Yared, Rombi, Desplat. And through their music, make you relive magical moments with the unforgettable Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montant, Philippe Noiret, Louis de Funès and so many others. May these Things of life give you as many stars in your eyes as we had recording them with The Centuries and Duncan Ward.”

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Renaud Capuçon – Les choses de la vie (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:01 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classique
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Renaud Capuçon, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang & Guillaume Bellom – Mozart: Piano Quartets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang & Guillaume Bellom – Mozart: Piano Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:43 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Classical
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Renaud Capuçon’s exciting new Mozart project for Deutsche Grammophon comprises three albums and two STAGE+ performances, all to come before the end of the year. Together they encompass the artist’s multi-faceted career as concerto soloist, chamber musician, artistic director and mentor to outstanding young talent. Mozart: The Violin Concertos, recorded with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (OCL), of which Capuçon is Artistic Director, is scheduled for release on 29 September 2023. Recorded with three of the emerging artists mentored by Capuçon, Mozart: The Piano Quartets will follow on 10 November, and will inaugurate the Capuçon-DG Beau Soir imprint. The violinist’s trilogy of 2023 Mozart albums will be launched, meanwhile, with the release on 23 June of Mozart: Sonatas for piano and violin, made with American pianist Kit Armstrong.

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Renaud Capuçon, Orchestre De Chambre De Lausanne – Mozart: The Violin Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon, Orchestre De Chambre De Lausanne – Mozart: The Violin Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:51 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mozart: The Violin Concertos, recorded with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (OCL), of which Capuçon is Artistic Director. Mozart has been at the heart of the OCL’s repertoire since its foundation in 1942, and the orchestra’s extensive discography already includes acclaimed recordings of the composer’s complete piano concertos and serenades and other works. Now Mozart: The Violin Concertos reflects the rapport that Renaud Capuçon and the OCL have developed since the former became the ensemble’s Artistic Director at the start of the 2021 22 season.

Assuming the dual role of soloist and director, Capuçon turned to the subtle musical complexities of the concertos armed with a feeling for their spontaneity and a determination to bring them to life in the moment. Recorded last September at Lausanne’s Théâtre de Beaulieu, the 2-CD album also includes the Rondo in C major K 373 and Adagio in E major K 261.

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Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili – Franck, Grieg & Dvořák: Works for Violin (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon, Khatia Buniatishvili – Franck, Grieg & Dvořák: Works for Violin (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:17 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics

It was living legend Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon’s frequent duo partner and Khatia Buniatishvili’s mentor, who played musical matchmaker and brought these two brilliant performers together. Their concerts at Lugano Festival in 2012 were such a resounding success that the friendship stuck. Capuçon has been praised for his “intensely lyrical” tone and “gloriously rich sound” (BBC Music Magazine).

His poised, expressive playing provides the ideal counterbalance to the impassioned pianism of 27-year-old Khatia Buniatishvili, the “fiery young star” (The Independent) hailed by Argerich as “a young pianist of extraordinary talent. I was impressed by her exceptional pianistic gift, natural musicality, imagination and her brilliant virtuosity.” Together, the pair has devised a delectable program of Romantic sonatas for violin and piano – all, extraordinarily, composed within a year in 1886-87. César Franck’s Sonata in A major is one of the finest in the genre, beloved for its soaring melodies and sensuous, light-filled final movement. “Khatia and I met over Franck’s sonata,” Capuçon recalls. “This is the sonata that sealed our musical partnership, the sheer joy of playing together.”

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Renaud Capuçon – Un violon à Paris (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Un violon à Paris (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:13 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

During the first lockdown in France, Renaud Capuçon played a new piece every day to lift the spirits of his fans on social media, accompanied by pianist Guillaume Bellom from their respective homes – they received an enthusiastic response. A crossover collection of short, streaming friendly, lean-back pieces.

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Renaud Capuçon – Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50 – Dvorák: Piano Trio No. 3 (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50 – Dvorák: Piano Trio No. 3 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:27 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

This recording features two major works of the chamber repertoire – one by Antonín Dvořák, the other by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The two composers were contemporaries, born just a year apart: Tchaikovsky in 1840 and Dvořák in 1841. In the 1880s (Tchaikovsky’s Op.50 dates from 1881, Dvořák’s Op.65 from 1883), neither man was known for his chamber music – Tchaikovsky’s reputation was based on his opera and ballet scores (works such as Eugene Onegin and Swan Lake), while Dvořák had made his name with works influenced by Slavonic folk music (the Moravian Duets and Slavonic Dances). Each of these two piano trios therefore has its own unique character, and both works signal new directions in the style of their respective composers.

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Renaud Capuçon – Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No. 1, Cello Sonata No. 1 & Piano Trio No. 2 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No. 1, Cello Sonata No. 1 & Piano Trio No. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:50 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

It’s always a good thing when a new recording fills a hole in the catalogue, and this all-Saint-Saëns chamber programme from seasoned collaborators Renaud Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou and Edgar Moreau is one of those. Firstly because, while there already exists a generous smattering of readings of the first violin and cello sonatas from a range of top names, they tend not to be paired with each other. Plus, they’ve never been paired with the magnificent Piano Trio No. 2, which itself has been much less recorded. Add the fact that here we have not just three of France’s finest artists, but among them the pianist who carried off Gramophone’s “2019 Recording of the Year” precisely for his Saint-Saëns (recording of Concertos Nos. 2 & 5), and there’s a whole host of reasons why this album deserves your full attention.

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Renaud Capuçon – Renaud Capuçon plays Rihm, Dusapin & Mantovani (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Renaud Capuçon plays Rihm, Dusapin & Mantovani (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:41 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics

Firmly established as one of the world’s greatest violinists, Renaud Capuçon career both on the stage and as a recording artist has spanned a wide gamut of concerto repertoire, chamber music and recitals. He has a reputation for impeccable performances and fine interpretations of classics and lesser-known repertoire, from his most recent albums with critically-acclaimed readings of the Bach Violin Concertos and the Vasks Violin Concerto, and a recital disc with Khatia Buniatishvili, to the Beethoven / Korngold and Brahms/Berg concertos, Renaud has become known for the breadth of his repertoire, his world-class chamber music partners, and the quality of his playing.

Celebrating his 40th birthday this year, Capuçon presents three world-premiere recordings of violin concertos written for and dedicated to him by three of today’s most exciting composers: Wolfgang Rihm, Pascal Dusapin and Bruno Mantovani – with the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris, Wiener Symphoniker and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the conductors Myung-Whun Chung and Philippe Jordan.

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Renaud Capuçon – Renaud Capuçon : Lalo: Symphonie espagnole – Bruch: Violin Concerto (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Renaud Capuçon : Lalo: Symphonie espagnole – Bruch: Violin Concerto (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:48 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics

Renaud Capuçon exudes a youthful air, but, now firmly established as one of the world’s leading violinists, he celebrates his 40th birthday on 27 January 2016. This release of the best-known works of three composers – Edouard Lalo, Pablo de Sarasate and Max Bruch – marks this important personal occasion in a suitably festive fashion. Capuçon made the recordings with Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris at the orchestra’s new home, the French capital’s Philharmonie, which opened in early 2015 and was immediately hailed for its superb acoustics. The Bruch concerto became the first piece to be recorded there, in May 2015. As it happens, Capuçon shares a birthday with Edouard Lalo, born in 1823 – and with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart too! As Renaud Capuçon explains: “These three works, first heard between 1868 and 1878, are among the most famous in the history of the violin, and there are links of friendship and respect between their three composers – Lalo, Sarasate and Bruch: Lalo dedicated his Symphonie espagnole to Sarasate [born in northern Spain and one of the most celebrated violinists of his time]. Bruch dedicated his Scottish Fantasy to Sarasate some years later, but it was the great Joseph Joachim who gave the first performance of Bruch’s Concerto No 1.”

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Renaud Capuçon – Elgar: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Elgar: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:15 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Conductor Simon Rattle is familiar with the rhapsodic Violin Concerto. In 1997, EMI Classics had published a version that became famous. It featured English violinist Nigel Kennedy, full of panache and wild virtuosity, especially in the final Allegro molto that must be taken both flexibly and firmly. The squaring of the circle! Kennedy and Rattle were exemplary. Here, Simon Rattle benefits from a much finer orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the quintessential Elgarian phalanx, whose tradition of performances in this field was revived in the last two decades by Sir Colin Davis (who died in 2013).

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Renaud Capuçon – Cinema (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Cinema (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:15 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Firmly established as one of the world’s greatest violinists, Renaud Capucon’s career both on the stage and as a recording artist has spanned a wide gamut of concerto repertoire, chamber music and recitals. He has a reputation for impeccable performances and fine interpretations of classics and lesser-known repertoire, from his most recent albums with critically-acclaimed readings of the Bach Violin Concertos and the Vasks Violin Concerto, and a recital disc with Khatia Buniatishvili, to the Beethoven / Korngold and Brahms/Berg concertos, Renaud has become known for the breadth of his repertoire, his world-class chamber music partners, and the quality of is playing.

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Renaud Capuçon – Brahms: String Sextets (Live from Aix Easter Festival 2016) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Brahms: String Sextets (Live from Aix Easter Festival 2016) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:47 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics

For the first time since their recording of Saint-Saëns La Muse et le Poète in 2013, the French brothers reunite for a recording of two of the great pillars of Romantic chamber music – Brahms’ string sextets.

At the peak of the musical powers, they both appear regularly throughout the world on all the major concert hall platforms. Alongside their solo careers, performing chamber music with friends has always been an important part of their lives, and here they are joined by Austrian violinist Christoph Koncz, French violists Marie Chilemme and Gérard Caussé, and Austrian cellist Clemens Hagen.

The sextets are amongst the most joyful and skilfully-written works of the Romantic chamber music canon. While his own voice as a composer can clearly be heard, outside influences from the great Classical era composers such as Schubert and Beethoven are also in evidence.

The second sextet was written around the time Brahms became close to a young singer called Agathe von Siebold, so close in fact that many of their acquaintances thought they would eventually marry. Brahms however refused to be tied down and Agathe broke off the relationship.

Near the end of the exposition of the first movement, the first and second violins together spell “Agathe” by playing the notes A-G-A-D-H-E, leading many to deem this work as dedicated to her. After completing the work Brahms wrote to a friend, “Here I have freed myself from my last love.”

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Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capucon, Frank Braley – Beethoven: Piano Trios No. 5, “Ghost” & No. 7, “Archduke” (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capucon, Frank Braley – Beethoven: Piano Trios No. 5, “Ghost” & No. 7, “Archduke” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:47 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato/Warner Classics

Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley, well established as chamber-music partners, perform two of Beethoven’s greatest piano trios, the ‘Ghost’ and the ‘Archduke’. “Together, all three musicians have the quality that is the most priceless of all in playing chamber music,” wrote The Guardian when the Capuçons and Braley played the ‘Archduke’ at London’s Wigmore Hall, “they listen intently to each other and always take note of what they do. Their account of the Archduke Trio … had a tremendous sense of organic coherence.”

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Renaud Capuçon – Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Renaud Capuçon – Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:09 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Renaud Capuçon expands his wide-ranging concerto discography with Bartók’s two violin concertos. Composed almost three decades apart, they are highly contrasted, inhabiting very different emotional and musical worlds. Partnering Capuçon is the London Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Guest Conductor, François-Xavier Roth.

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