Renaud Capucon

Renaud Capuçon – Beethoven, Schumann, Franck (Extended Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:27:24 minutes | 879 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 encouraging and supporting younger artists and for commissioning new music. Now, in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, he releases his first album on the Yellow Label: a duo album with three of the most beautiful sonatas for violin and piano – accompanied by pianist Martha Argerich.
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Renaud Capuçon – Les choses de la vie (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:01 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classique
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Renaud Capuçon – Un violon à Paris (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:13 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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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)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:27 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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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)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:50 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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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)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:41 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Classical
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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)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:48 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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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)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:15 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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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)
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)
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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