This recording of chamber works by Ravel performed by Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley may not be the most electrifying, but it has a richness of feeling and movement that draws the listener along for a thoroughly enjoyable ride. The opening of the Piano Trio is delicately ethereal and atmospheric, but then it builds to grand heights. ...
All too often, chamber music collaborations between established, accomplished soloists do not yield favorable results. Merely putting together virtuosic musicians does not mean they will play well together. Such is not the case with this recording of Martha Argerich's 2006 festival in Lugano. This album represents an amazing synthesis of well ...
Instead of forming a permanent chamber ensemble, violinist Renaud Capuçon and his brother, cellist Gautier Capuçon, prefer to work with different partners, whom they choose for particular skills and strong affinities for a given project. For this double-disc of Brahms' Piano Trios, they have enlisted pianist Nicholas Angelich, a friend and ...
Violinist Renaud Capuçon and cellist Gautier Capuçon, both phenomenally talented performers, combine their distinct artistic personalities in these truly scintillating renditions of duos for violin and cello. If Renaud's brilliance is somewhat distant and reserved, Gautier's tone, even when he's busy displaying his mind-boggling virtuosity, ...
This 2004 Virgin CD of Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major, "Trout," appears merely to be a vehicle to promote the label's roster of rising talents, and questions about this apparently ad hoc ensemble's cohesiveness and cooperation may well be raised. It is clear that pianist Frank Braley dominates the proceedings as the leader and that the ...
Martha Argerich and Friends is drawn from recitals given during the first three years of the Martha Argerich Project Lugano Festival. Chamber music and mentoring young musicians have been two constants in Argerich's career, and the two are the reasons behind the project. The festival gives more experienced or well-known performers and those who ...
This isn't the first time Martha Argerich has recorded Brahms' Sonata for pianos (2) in F minor, Op. 34b. The first time was in 1993 with pianist Alexandre Rabinovitch on a disc of Brahms' piano music for two players. This time it's with Lilya Zilberstein on a disc with Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor recorded at the 2002 Lugano Festival. ...
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 ...
Martha Argerich does not give solo piano recitals anymore. She does something better: she plays duo piano and chamber music with her friends and students. She's been doing it for a couple of decades, and willful as she is, she probably won't change. Besides, when it comes to duo piano and chamber music recitals, Argerich with her friends and ...
Listeners should not get too excited about the third work on this disc, the Cello Concerto in D major (Hob. VIIb.4); this is clearly not a composition by Haydn. While the liner notes describe this concerto as a work of "unknown authorship," rejecting the attribution "to a certain Constanzi," Haydn scholars rightly identify the composer as Giovanni ...
The intense-looking trio of pianist Frank Braley and violin-cello brother duo Renaud and Gautier Capuçon has made a critical splash with innovative performances of standard chamber-music repertory in which they move confidently as a unit despite whatever unorthodoxies they may be propounding. Schubert's pair of trios, filled out with two shorter ...
This remarkable disc features recordings of two live performances from 2002 at Martha Argerich's Lugano Festival: César Franck's Sonata for piano and violin, played by Alexandre Gurning and Renaud Capuçon, and Rachmaninov's Sonata for cello and piano, performed by Capuçon and Lilya Zilberstein. The CD cover and the liner notes mistakenly identify ...
The Dvorák Cello Concerto has become one of the most iconic concertos in the instrument's repertoire, having been recorded (often more than once) by the vast majority of cellists who typically perform concertos. With so many recordings out there, it's difficult for new recordings and new cellists to distinguish themselves. Cellist Gautier Capuçon, ...
In his program notes for this CD, Philippe Jaroussky persuasively argues that, particularly because the traditional repertoire for counter tenors is so small (and much of the Baroque material was in fact written for castrati, an entirely different voice type), there is no reason counter tenors should not explore a broader variety of vocal material ...
With this two-disc set of the piano quartets, Nicholas Angelich proves conclusively that he is the best Brahms pianist of his generation. His previous Brahms recordings -- a 2005 disc of the violin sonatas with Renaud Capuçon, a 2006 solo collection featuring the Paganini Variations, a 2007 solo collection of the late piano works, and a 2008 disc ...
The nearly uninterrupted string of strong, successful albums produced by cellist Gautier Capuçon (and indeed his violinist brother, Renaud) demonstrates that the CD debut Face à Face was not just a fluke produced by child prodigies. Rather, Face à Face was a springboard for what has proven to be an enduring career and ever-improving musicianship. ...
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