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
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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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Renaud Capuçon, Kit Armstrong – Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:57:55 minutes | 4,88 GB | Genre: Classical
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This 4-CD album of Mozart’s ’16 Sonatas for Violin and Piano’, played by Renaud Capuçon and Kit Armstrong, showcases the brilliance of the composer’s chamber music and mastery of both instruments. The sonatas have been central to this duo’s partnership since they made their debut together with the works at the 2016 Salzburg Mozartwoche.
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Renaud Capuçon, Martha Argerich – Beethoven, Schumann, Franck (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:15 minutes | 836 MB | Genre: Classical
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French violinist Renaud Capuçon enjoys international renown as a soloist and chamber musician, is artistic director of several festivals, and is also known for his commitment to promoting and supporting younger artists and for commissioning compositions. Now he signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon and the first album on the yellow label is not long in coming: a duo album with three of the most beautiful sonatas for violin and piano – accompanied by pianist Martha Argerich. The two are now a seasoned duo and have been playing on the stages of international festivals and concert halls for 20 years.
The concert heard here was recorded live in April 2022 at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence. It was dedicated to American pianist Nicholas Angelich, a friend and colleague who had died just days before. The program includes three major works for violin and piano: Schumann’s Sonata No. 1, Op. 105, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”), and Franck’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major
“It’s a real live recording,” Capuçon says, “you rarely get something like this in the studio. Of course, it’s an honor for me to play these pieces with Martha, but at the same time it feels natural. She coaxes things out of me like no one else.”
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Khatia Buniatishvili & Renaud Capuçon – Franck: Violin Sonata, FWV 8 – Dvořák: Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:12 minutes | 889 MB | Genre: Classical
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Renaud Capuçon and Khatia Buniatishvili: Great Violin Sonatas by Franck, Grieg and Dvorak.
Great classical repertoire, discoveries, chamber music, concert literature at the highest level: the violinist Renaud Capuçon inspires as a soloist in all areas. He celebrated the power of world harmony with Bach’s concertos and the modern counterpart of Peteris Vasks, had styles communicated with each other with the concertos of Beethoven and Korngold as well as Brahms and Berg, and ensured one of the most distinguished large-scale chamber music projects of recent years with a complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas. He is now continuing on this path – alongside the young, award-winning Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.
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Renaud Capuçon – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:38 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Renaud Capuçon recognises Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as “a highlight of the violin repertoire”, but it has taken him some time to add it to his discography. “For years, I refused to play it,” he explains. “I’d heard it too much in the corridors of the Métro in Paris and as holding music on the phone. But once I’d accepted to play it, I was blown away by the power of the music … I realised that it’s famous because it’s amazing! It’s a masterpiece. I’ve now played it frequently with Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and it feels fresh and new every time.” He has chosen to complement Vivaldi’s four concertos with two sparkling concertos composed in Paris some 40 years after Vivaldi’s death. They are by Chevalier de Saint-George (1745-1799), born in Guadeloupe of French and African descent, who became a prominent and influential figure in Paris. He has been described in the New York Times as a composer who holds a “truly unique place in Western classical music history”.
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