Renaud Capuçon
Renaud Capuçon is among France's top violinists, with a repertory that includes contemporary music as well as French and German standards. He is a major star of the Erato label's roster.
Capuçon was born in Chambéry in the French Alps on January 27, 1976. He began studies at the local conservatory at age four. His brother is cellist Gautier Capuçon, and the two have performed and recorded together, notably in the Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102. At 14, Renaud entered the Conservatoire de Paris, studying there with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds, winning top prizes in chamber music and violin upon graduation. He went on to study with Isaac Stern and has played Stern's Guarneri del Gesù violin in performance. In 1996, he founded the Rencontres artistiques de Bel-Air festival in La Ravoire, near Chambéry, and headed it until 2010; in 2013, he established a new Easter festival in Aix-en-Provence. In 1997, Capuçon was named concertmaster of the European Youth Orchestra under conductor Claudio Abbado. He remained in the position for three years, by which time he had already launched his recording career on the Virgin Classics label with a 1999 recording of Schubert works for violin and piano.
In the early 2000s, Capuçon gained considerable celebrity as both a performer and recording artist. He often performs French music by the likes of Franck, Ravel, and Dutilleux, but he is also at home in German music from Beethoven to Brahms. Capuçon also performs works by Kodály, Halvorsen, Erwin Schulhoff, and more, as well as contemporary works such as the 2002 Sonata for violin and cello by Éric Tanguy and a 2015 violin concerto he commissioned from Wolfgang Rihm. Capuçon has performed with numerous major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony, and he is an enthusiastic chamber music player who has collaborated with pianists Nicholas Angelich, Martha Argerich, and Hélène Grimaud, among others. He has recorded well over 60 albums, mostly for the related Virgin Classics and Erato labels, including a complete cycle of Beethoven's violin sonatas with pianist Frank Braley. In 2021, Capuçon issued three new albums, one of Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, one of chamber works by contemporary composer Michael Jarrell, and one of Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa, on which he conducted the Orchestre Chambre de Lausanne.
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Quatuors pour piano & cordes
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Nicholas Angelich
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 13 Oct 2008
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Brahms: Piano Trios
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 15 Mar 2004
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Beethoven, Schumann, Franck
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Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 18 Nov 2022
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Concertos - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on 21 Oct 2016
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Un violon à Paris
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 12 Nov 2021
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Fauré : Complete chamber music for strings & piano
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Quatuor Ébène, Gérard Caussé, Michel Dalberto
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5 Sep 2011
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Beethoven, Schumann, Franck (Extended Edition)
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Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 18 Nov 2022
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Le Violon Roi
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 22 Feb 2013
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50 - Dvorák: Piano Trio No. 3 (Live)
Renaud Capuçon, Kian Soltani, Lahav Shani
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 12 Apr 2019
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Schubert: Trout Quintet, D. 667
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley, Gérard Caussé
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Nov 2004
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Double Concerto & Quintette avec clarinette
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Paul Meyer, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 15 Oct 2007
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Beethoven & Korngold: Violin Concertos
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 2 Oct 2009
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Classical - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on 21 Oct 2016
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Escaich: Oeuvres Symphoniques (Lille)
Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Michiyoshi Inouë, Paul Polivnick, Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon
Classical - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on 1 Jan 2007
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Le Boeuf sur le toit
Renaud Capuçon, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Daniel Harding
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 2001
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Main Theme From "Schindler's List"
Film Soundtracks - Released by Warner Classics on 13 Jul 2018
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Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Keyboard Nos 3-6
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Mar 2019
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Beethoven : Sonates pour violon et piano (Intégrale)
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 13 Sep 2010
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Camille Saint-Saëns : La Muse et le Poète - Concertos pour violon n°3 - Concerto pour violoncelle n°1
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Lionel Bringuier, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Concertos - Released by Warner Classics International on 7 Oct 2013
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Franck, Grieg, Dvorak: Sonatas for violin & piano
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