The French violinist Renaud Capuçon regularly pours his soul into his 286-year-old instrument. It’s one of only about 250 Guarneri violins that still exist. For his January Carnegie Hall debut, the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The appeal of a major romantic concerto to international violinists has lifted Elgar’s concerto out of the ...
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Renaud Capuçon, Violin Suisse Romande Orchestra Daniel Harding, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Renaud Capuçon, Violin Suisse Romande Orchestra Daniel ...
It has all the earmarks of a great movie score: sweeping soundscapes, stirring melodies. But it's actually a concert hall violin concerto by a composer whose day job was writing movie music. Violinist ...
Falling roughly halfway through a season rocked by podium shifts at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the cancellation of Yannick Nezet-Seguin came as a particularly bothersome blow. The French Canadian ...
Reporting from Paris — It is easy to imagine that a pair of French classical musical prodigies like the Capuçon brothers — who began to play their instruments before kindergarten — would not be ...
When superstar violinist Renaud Capuçon joins the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ludovic Morlot next week to perform Henri Dutilleux’s concerto “L’arbre des Songes” (“The Tree of Dreams”), ...
The exciting pianist Martha Argerich seems most comfortable on stage these days when she is egging on extravagantly gifted young players, such as the French brothers Renaud and Gautier Capucon. Last ...
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