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Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon - Inventions (2006)

Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon - Inventions (2006)
  • Title: Inventions
  • Year Of Release: 2006
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:11:53
  • Total Size: 321 mb
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Tracklist

01. Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 (Transcr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
02. French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: IV. Air (Transcr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
03. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850: Prelude (Arr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
04. French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813: V. Menuet (Trancr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
05. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: V. Gavottes I & II (Transcr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
06. English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807: VII. Gigue (Transcr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
07. Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784 (Transcr. Neumann for Violin and Cello)
08. Duo pour violon & violoncelle Op. 7 No 1: I Tempo di minuetto
09. Duo pour violon & violoncelle Op. 7 No 1: II Allegretto vivace
10. Masques: I (Modéré)
11. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 30, Jeering Song. Allegro ironico (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
12. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 19, Allegretto (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
13. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 26, Moderato (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
14. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 28, Choral. Andante (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
15. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 34, Allegretto (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
16. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 35, Con moto (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
17. For Children, Sz. 42 "Hungarian Folk Melodies": No. 36, Drunkard's Song. Vivace (Arr. Kraeuter for Violin and Cello)
18. Masques: II (Rythmiquement et souple)
19. Duo pour violin & violoncelle (Composed in a concentration camp): I Allegro con fuocoo
20. Duo pour violin & violoncelle (Composed in a concentration camp): II Lento (inacheve)
21. Duo pour violon & violoncelle No 2 H.371: I Allegretto
22. Duo pour violon & violoncelle No 2 H.371: II Adagio
23. Duo pour violon & violoncelle No 2 H.371: III Poco allegro
24. Marche miniature viennoise

If you're put off by the idea of a whole CD of just violin and cello (Aude Capuçon only joins brothers Renaud and Gautier for the final three minutes), think again! There's an impressive range both in the music, with its central-European theme, and the performances. The Bach transcriptions are splendidly spirited and stylish; one minor fault – difficult to avoid when playing Bach with a modern bow – is a tendency to exaggerate dynamic inflexions and the difference between long and short notes. The Bartók arrangements are wonderfully colourful and evocative; with such short pieces it's crucial to establish the character straight away, and the Capuçons do this every time.
The items by Karol Beffa were written expressly for the brothers. Each starts in meditative mood, with unclouded tonality, developing more complicated formulations as it proceeds, and each makes masterly use of the instruments' sonorities. The Martinu, dating from the year before his death in 1959, sounds remarkably full. The first movement is particularly attractive – if you imagine a mixture of Stravinsky and Dvorák, you'd be close. The Eisler, by contrast, is an early work, full of expressionistic outbursts, realised here with extreme vividness. The unfinished Duo by Gideon Klein (a young Holocaust victim) is rather more sober, intensely chromatic but not especially dissonant, and with powerfully concentrated melancholy expression.
All this music has a strong sense of time and place. Fritz Kreisler nostalgically evokes the Vienna of Johann Strauss, and here again the Capuçons get right into the idiom.

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