DEBUSSY / DVORAK / ELGAR / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / PROKOFIEV / etc
Capriccio: Virtuoso pieces for violin & piano Renaud Capucon (violin) Jerome Ducros (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 18/May/2008 ] "Not since the emergence of Vengerov and Repin has such an exciting young violinist come our way." International Record Review |
FRANCK / GRIEG / DVORAK
Violin Sonatas Renaud Capucon (violin) / Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] Renaud Capuçon has established himself as an artist with a reputation for impeccable performances and fine interpretations of classics and lesser-known repertoire. From his most recent album with critically-acclaimed readings of the Bach Violin... |
MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto No.2 / Violin Concerto Renaud Capucon (violin) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Daniel Harding, conductor [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 19/Oct/2004 ] A new disc from the brilliant young French violinist Renaud Capuçon brings together two strongly contrasted works: Mendelssohn's luminous E minor concerto, one of the best-loved works in the repertoire, and Schumann's more introverted and... |
J S BACH / VASKS
Distant Light Renaud Capuçon & Celine Frisch (violins) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe [ Erato / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] Renaud Capuçon's first recording as both soloist and conductor is also his first recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He has chosen to juxtapose Bach's violin concertos in A minor and E major with a haunting concerto written more than 350... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2 Renaud Capuçon, Christoph Koncz (violins), Gérard Caussé, Marie Chilemme (violas) & Gautier Capuçon, Clemens Hagen (cellos) [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Jun/2017 ] "Best of all, the musicians find a near-ideal balance of urgency and patience - the hallmark of a great Brahms interpretation." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - June 2017 |
HALVORSEN / KODALY / TANGUY / SCHULHOFF / GHYS
Face a face: Duos for violin and cello Renaud Capucon (violin) Gautier Capucon (cello) [ Virgin Erato Classics / CD - released 21/Jul/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - The brothers Renaud and Gautier Capuçon take the stage alone in five duets for violin and cello. |
SAINT-SAENS
La Muse et le Poète [Violin & Cello Concertos] Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Lionel Bringuier [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Violinist Renaud Capuçon and his cellist brother Gautier are joined by the young French conductor Lionel Bringuier and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for a programme of works by Camille Saint-Saëns. |
DELERUE / LEGRAND / KOSMA / PETIT / YARED / ROUBAIX / etc
Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Les Siècles, Duncan Ward [ Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Following his beloved and best-selling 2018 album of music from popular films, Renaud Capuçon returns to the magical world of cinema in Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II. The violinist has dedicated this sequel to 19 titles written by French film... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: La Mer / Images Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2018 ] Debussy began composing La Mer in 1904, in Burgundy, but as he wrote to fellow composer André Messager, his memories of the sea were "worth more than a reality whose charm generally weighs too heavily on the imagination". He continued to work on the... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Concertos Riccardo Minasi (violin & direction), Johannes Hinterholzer (horn) / Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (harpsichord, conductor) [ Warner / Erato Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] The period-instrument orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro, founded in 2012, has rapidly built a substantial international reputation. It now boasts two chief conductors: Riccardo Minasi, the Italian violinist and musicologist, and Maxim Emelyanychev, the young... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman (The Tales of Hoffman) (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Jose van Dam, Natalie Dessay, Sumi Jo / l'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano [ Erato / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] "With Nagano taking a light, airy view and using the most scholarly text available, this new version certainly has its place." (Gramophone) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman (The Tales of Hoffman) (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Jose van Dam, Natalie Dessay, Sumi Jo / l'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano [ Erato Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Kent Nagano uses Kaye's complete edition preserving the recitatives. He balances this by taking quite a brisk view of the tempi and the pacing of the piece." MusicWeb |
PURCELL
Purcell Edition (The Indian Queen, The Tempest, Dioclesian, Timon of Athens) Rosemary Hardy, Dinah Harris, Jennifer Smith, Lynne Dawson, Rogers Covey-Crump etc / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists, John Elliot Gardiner [ Warner Erato / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The choral singing is especially fine, with the close of the work movingly expressive… for The Tempest, Gardiner demonstrates how delightful it is, a masterly collection, in performances both polished and stylish and with excellent solo and choral... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (complete opera recorded in 1991) Ruggero Raimondi (Boris Godunov), Paul Plishka, Kenneth Riegel, Nicolai Gedda, Galina Vishneyevskaya / National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropov [ Erato / Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2018 ] "Ruggero Raimondi's Boris is sung firmly and lyrically. He responds to the elegance to be found in Mussorgsky's brief, speech-inflected phrases, and some scenes, notably his final exchanges with his son, are movingly done." (Gramophone) |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Achante et Céphise (complete) Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, David Witczak, Judith Van Wanroij /Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Alexis Kossenko [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/Nov/2021 ] "...this is an invigorating and joyous revival of a musically rich opera." BBC Music Christmas 2021 Opera Choice |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte (Saltzburg Festival 2020) Saltzburg Festival / Elsa Dreisig, Marianne Crebassa, Lea Desandre, Bogdan Volkov, André Schuen / Joana Mallwitz (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] "It's frankly difficult to imagine a better-cast Così today...Mallwitz really makes Mozart's score zing, keeping the Vienna Philharmonic light on their toes" Gramophone Magazine June 2021 DVD of the Month |
J. S. BACH
Italian Concerto / Chromatic fantasy & fugue / Four duets Scott Ross (harpischord) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 25/May/2015 ] Reissued at a special price |
RODRIGO / TARREGA / WALTON / BRITTEN / BACH / BROUWER / etc
Great Masterworks Of the Guitar [5 CD set] Sharon Isbin (guitar) [ Erato Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2017 ] The many faces of the guitar are explored by Sharon Isbin, hailed as "the pre-eminent guitarist of our time" and twice a Grammy Award winner. Its origins in the lute are acknowledged in the four graceful suites composed by Johann Sebastian Bach,... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos Shunske Sato / Il Pomo d'Oro, Zefira Valova [ Erato / CD - released 26/Oct/2018 ] "The smaller-sized ripieno is always in step with light and dance. Where tempi are suitable throughout and the faster movements are dynamic and punchy, the passages of flourish in the slower movements are also tastefully rendered. " Nicholas Butler/M |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (Complete Opera) Jennifer Smith, Gillian Fisher, Elisabeth Priday / English Baroque, John Elliot Gardiner [ Erato / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "Solo singing for the most part is excellent, with Stephen Varcoe outstanding among the men." *** Three Stars (Penguin Stereo Guide) |