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Renaud Capucon

Richard Strauss - Wiener Symphoniker, Petr Popelka

Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: January 31, 2025

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My Favorite Deutsche Grammophon Album by... Renaud Capuçon
1 Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 8_ I. Allegro  
2 II. Lento ma non troppo  
3 III. Rondo. Prestissimo  
4 Violin Sonata, Op. 18_ I. Allegro ma non troppo  
5 II. Improvisation. Andante cantabile  
6 III. Finale. Andante - Allegro  
7 Daphne-Etude, TrV 272b  
8 Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 13_ I. Allegro  
9 II. Scherzo. Presto  
10 III. Andante  
11 IV. Finale. Vivace  
12 Capriccio, Op. 85_ Introduction (Sextet)  
13 Metamorphosen, TrV 290 (Arr. Leopold for String Septet)  
14 Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40_ I. Der Held  
15 II. Des Helden Widersacher  
16 III. Des Helden Gefa¨hrtin  
17 IV. Des Helden Walstatt _Battle Scene  
18 V. Des Helden Friedenswerke  
19 VI. Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung  
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Violinist Renaud Capuçon pays homage to one of his favourite composers with a compilation of chamber and orchestral works from the innovative late-Romantic soundworld of RichardStrauss. Set for release digitally and on 3 CDs, the album is bookended by a new recording of the youthful Violin Concerto, which Capuçon performs with the Wiener Symphoniker and Petr Popelka, and a reading of Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”) from 2000, in which the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester was led by Capuçon and conducted by Seiji Ozawa. Renaud has also chosen to include the Violin Sonata, Piano Quartet, Sextet from Capriccio and string septet arrangement of Metamorphosen, as well as the Daphne-Etude for solo violin. 

His Richard Strauss album is released with the central movement of the Violin Sonata available to stream or download. On the same day as the album, the Lento, ma non troppo second movement of the Violin Concerto. 

“It’s a bit quirky, but I love it,” says Renaud Capuçon of Strauss’s Violin Concerto in D minor, which the composer wrote in 1882, when he was just 17. The work is relatively seldom performed – perhaps, suggests Capuçon, because it is “very difficult, comparable to Schumann’s Violin Concerto”. Traditional in form, the work is full of colour – from the dramatic opening Allegro to the mercurial finale, via the lyrical central slow movement – and reveals Strauss’s early mastery of orchestration. Under the baton of Petr Popelka, Capuçon and the Wiener Symphoniker establish a close dialogue, capturing every change in mood.

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