Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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Gautier Capucon is too consummate a musician to opt for pale imitations. Working hand in glove with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, he delivers passionate and rhythmically incisive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: 2564606973
Label: Erato
Length: 67 minutes

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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107

Work length31:33

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Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg
Valéry Gergiev

I. Allegretto

Track length6:27

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II. Moderato

Track length13:50

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III. Cadenza

Track length6:31

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IV. Finale - Allegro con moto

Track length4:45

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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 126

Work length35:28

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Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Mariinsky Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg
Valéry Gergiev

I. Largo

Track length14:36

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II. Scherzo: Allegretto

Track length4:25

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III. Finale: Allegretto

Track length16:27

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“Capuçon and Gergiev deliver some grand and glorious moments” wrote Gramophone when the French cellist Gautier Capuçon and the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev last collaborated on a disc of Russian music for Erato – works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, released in 2010. The Daily Telegraph found that: “Capuçon [plays] with a blend of impeccable taste, Romantic ardour and technical aplomb ... Whether quizzical, rapturous, pensive or demonstrative, Capuçon has full measure of [the music] here in a performance of impressive stature.”

Now, the two musicians -- whose collaboration, again in Gramophone’s words, “was bound to strike sparks” – have come together for two live recordings, made in December 2013 at Paris’s Salle Pleyel and June 2014 at St. Petersbourg’s Mariinsky Thetre with the Mariinsky Orchestra. The works in question are Dmitri Shostakovich’s cello concertos Nos 1 and 2, both of which were written for Mstislav Rostropovich. The first was composed in 1959 (a year after the Central Committee of the Communist Party admitted that in 1948 there had been unjust condemnation of Shostakovich and other composers as ‘Formalist’), the second in 1966. The two concertos are different in spirit and shape: the first is often assertive and energetic, and features a huge cadenza for the cello that is almost a movement in its own right, while the second is introspective and enigmatic.

When Capuçon played the Concerto No.1 in New York in early 2014, the New York Times said: “Mr Capuçon played the work beautifully, negotiating its difficulties with seeming ease ... his elegance paid dividends ..., especially in the meditative Moderato and the brooding opening of the cadenza.” When he took the piece to Montreal, also in early 2014, the news website Pieuvre.ca reported that “[his] sensitive, virtuosic interpretation was rewarded with a long ovation.”

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December 2015

Gautier Capucon is too consummate a musician to opt for pale imitations. Working hand in glove with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, he delivers passionate and rhythmically incisive accounts…[there is] much to admire here, particularly in the way both soloist and orchestra ratchet up the emotional temperature throughout the course of the second movement [of the Second Concerto]

November 2015

Gautier Capucon immediately shows that his are interpretations to be reckoned with. His account of the first movement of the First Concerto brings to bear an exceptional variety of articulation where lesser players storm through regardless.

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