Renaud

Quelque soit le cadre dans lequel il s'exprime, Pedro Soler, fidèle à l'école primitive qui l'a formé, recherche l'épure, l'essence, la dynamique, la force du silence. La technique n'est pour lui qu'un moyen d'acquérir la puissance expressive du "cante jondo", le chant profond. Il ne pouvait donc que s'entendre avec Renaud Garcia-Fons, un contrebassiste proche de la tradition du flamenco, qu'il étudie et transpose sur son instrument.

Existing fans of brothers Renaud and Gautier Capuçon have likely been waiting with baited breath for their eventual and inevitable release of the Brahms Double Concerto, a work that would seem to have their names written all over it. Their premiere duo album, Face a Face, demonstrated their incredible technique, precision intonation, and inborn knack for playing together. Each brother's solo ventures, from Gautier's vivacious interpretation of the Haydn cello concertos and Renaud's insightful performance of Mendelssohn and Schumann, have been similarly highly regarded.

Avec plus de 2.000 entrées, ce dictionnaire répertorie les 300 chansons de Renaud, les musiciens et compositeurs qui ont travaillé avec lui, ses sources d'inspiration et ses passions, ses concerts, ses rôles au cinéma, les lieux où il a vécu ainsi que ses relations avec les femmes et avec des personnalités telles que Jacques Mesrine. …

Elgar's violin concerto - distinctively passionate and nostalgic - is one of the great late-Romantic concertos. "It is a huge piece," says Renaud Capuçon "both in terms of it's length and it's romantic and noble nature." This is Capuçon's first recording with Sir Simon Rattle, here conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. When Rattle chose Elgar's Enigma Variations for his inaugural concert as the LSO's music director in 2017, he was celebrating the close historic links between the composer and the orchestra. Not only did the LSO accompany Fritz Kreisler in the premiere of the violin concerto in 1910, Elgar became it's Principal Conductor the following year. Paired with the concerto on this album is his violin sonata, first performed in 1919. Renaud Capuçon, who calls the sonata "a work of nobility and tenderness", is joined by one of the leading British pianists of today, Stephen Hough.

“Arvo Pärt’s music takes us from darkness to light,” says Renaud Capuçon. “It looks relatively simple on paper, but each note needs to have its own life as it undergoes change. This music is not just relaxing – it has a depth and drama.” In Autumn 2021 Renaud Capuçon becomes Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. His first recording with the ensemble is devoted to the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and among the eight works on the album are Spiegel im Spiegel, Tabula Rasa and Silouan’s Song.