L’Excellence de demain à la Fondation Louis Vuitton

By Raphaëlle Blin, 17 June 2018

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“Un concert sans prétention mais de haute volée”

Reviewed at Auditorium de la Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris on 16 June 2018

Programme to include:

Bizet, Carmen Suite no. 1

Paganini, Variations on One String on a theme from Rossini's Moses in Egypt

Popper, Requiem, for three cellos and piano, Op.66

Dvořák, From the Bohemian Forest (Ze Sumavy): Silent Woods, Op.68 no.5

Wilson, Lamentation

Lalo, Cello Concerto in D minor

Rachmaninov, Vocalise, Op.34 no.14

Sollima, Marche

Gautier Capuçon, Cello

Samuel Parent, Piano

Caroline Sypniewski, Cello

Shizuka Mitsui, Cello

Anouchka Hack, Cello

Sarina Zhang, Cello

Kristina Winiarski, Cello

Raphaël Jouan, Cello

A boisterous opening at the Dvořák Prague Festival

Frank Kuznik, 5th September

Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra leave a lot to the imagination in a fiery treatment of two signature Dvořák works.

***11

War and Peace in Aix-en-Provence

Charlotte Gardner, 25th April

Gautier Capuçon, Pierre Bleuse and the Orchestre du Festival Casals bring a devastating Shostakovich First Cello Concerto to Aix-en-Provence's Festival de Pâques.

*****

Perfectly weighted conversation: Szeps-Znaider, Capuçon and Buchbinder

Charlotte Gardner, 11th November

Three become one as Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Gautier Capuçon and Rudolf Buchbinder bring Schubert to London.

****1

A true partnership of equals: Gautier Capuçon and Kim Bernard

Chris Garlick, 27th November

French pianist Kim Bernard, the first laureate of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon, performs with the Foundation's founder at London's Wigmore Hall.

****1

Masterful music-making from Thibaudet, Batiashvili and Capuçon

Susan Stempleski, 24th October

The stellar trio display their individual and collective talents in a captivating program of music by Haydn, Ravel and Mendelssohn.

*****

Dawn x 3 with Gautier Capuçon, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony

Kevin Wells, 13th April

Gautier Capuçon gives the US premiere of Thierry Escaich's second cello concerto, Les Chants de l’aube.

***11

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Raphaëlle Blin

Elève en musicologie au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Raphaëlle s’est d’abord formée à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure en histoire et à l’Ecole du Louvre en histoire de l’art. Mélomane depuis son plus jeune âge, elle poursuit actuellement ses études en violoncelle et en piano au conservatoire.