CAPRICCIO

Composer: Various Other participants: Renaud Capuçon, Jérôme Ducros – Piano – 2007

‘Not since the emergence of Vengerov and Repin has such an exciting young violinist come my way.’

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‘Capriccio’ sees French violinist Renaud Capuçon, now in his early 30s, paying tribute to legendary violinists of the 20th century, including Kreisler, Heifetz, Milstein and Menuhin. This appetising selection of short pieces – virtuosic and lyrical, original compositions, transcriptions and arrangements – demonstrates the captivating charm the violin can exert.

Composer: Various
Renaud Capuçon, Violin
Jérôme Ducros, Piano

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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
01 / On Wings of Song Op.34 no.2 2.21

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
02 / The Bee Op.13 no.9 arr. August Wilhelmj 1.11
03 / Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III, D.839) arr. Renaud Capuçon 4.09

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) édité par Jascha Heifetz
04 / La Capricieuse Op.17 3.51

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) trans. Jascha Heifetz
05 / Humoreske in B flat major Op.107 no.1 3.06

Josef Suk (1847-1935)
06 / Un poco triste Op.17 no.3 3.38

Antonín Dvořák trans. Fritz Kreisler
07 / Slavonic Dance in A minor d’après Op.46 no.2 & Op.72 no.1 3.04

Grigoras Dinicu (1889-1949) arr. Jascha Heifetz
08 / Hora staccato 2.00

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) trans. Pavel Kochanski
09 / Roxana’s Song extrait de King Roger 5.24

Claude Debussy (1832-1918) trans. A. Roelens
10 / Clair de lune extrait de Suite bergamasque 4.15

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) arr. Samuel Dushkin
11 / Russian Song 3.21

Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) arr. Jascha Heifetz
12 / Masks extrait de Romeo and Juliet 2.02

Piotr Iliych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
13 / Valse sentimentale in F minor Op.51 no.6 3.23

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) arr. Fritz Kreisler
14 / Dance of the blessed spirits (Ballet des ombres heureuses) extrait d’Orfeo ed Euridice 3.45

Erich Korngold (1897-1957)
15 / Garden scene (extrait de la Suite ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Op.11) 5.13

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) arr. Vasa Prihoda
16 / Der Rosenkavalier, Waltz 7.11
17 / Ein einsamer Quelle Op.9 no.2 3.31

Ede Poldini (1869-1957) trans. Fritz Kreisler
18 / Poupée valsante 2.22

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
19 / Liebesleid 3.13

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
20 / Er, der Herrlichste von allem extrait de Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42 no.2 2.39
21 / Du Ring am meinem Finger extrait de Frauenliebe und Leben Op.42 no.4 2.19

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Capuçon, with pianist Jérôme Ducros, also his partner for a Virgin Classics Schubert recital released in 2006, has selected favourite encore pieces such as Kreisler’s mercurial Liebesleid and Dvorák’s lilting Humoreske (arranged by Heifetz), tender episodes like Debussy’s Clair de lune and Tchaikovsky’s Valse sentimentale, works by the Romantics – Schubert (with the Ave Maria arranged by Capuçon himself), Mendelssohn and Schumann (transcriptions of numbers from the song cycle Frauenliebe und –Leben), and by composers of the 20th century – Strauss, Prokofiev, Szymanowski, Stravinsky, Korngold and the Romanian Grigoras Dinicu (reputedly judged by Heifetz as the greatest violinist he had ever heard).