VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS / CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGE: VIOLIN CONCERTOS Op. 5 & Op. 8
Renaud Capuçon, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Chevalier de Saint-George: Violin Concertos Op.5 & Op.8
Renaud Capuçon, firmly established as today’s leading French violinist, describes Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as “a highlight of the violin repertoire”, but it has taken him some time to add the work to his discography. Now he has done so with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, of which he became Artistic Director in Autumn 2021. To complement Vivaldi’s four concertos he has chosen two concertos composed in Paris in the 1770s – more than 40 years after Vivaldi’s death – and vastly less well known to today’s listeners. They are by the Guadeloupe-born composer known as Chevalier de Saint-George (1745-1799), whose works include a total of 12 violin concertos, 10 symphonies, two sets of string quartets and a number of operas. Writing in the New York Times in 2020, the composer and academic Marcos Balter described Saint-George as a figure who holds a “truly unique place in Western classical music history”. The Handel & Haydn Society in Boston calls him “a notable composer …, and one of the first of African descent in classical music”.
Discography
VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS / CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGE: VIOLIN CONCERTOS Op. 5 & Op. 8
Renaud Capuçon, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Debussy: Sonates & Trio
Renaud Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou, Gérard Caussé, Emmanuel Pahud, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Edgar Moreau – 2017
Rihm: Gedicht des Malers, Dusapin: Aufgang, Mantovani: Jeux d’Eau
Wiener Symphoniker, Orchstre de l’Opéra National de Paris, Philippe Jordan, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung – 2016
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Bruch: Violin Concerto
Lalo, Bruch, Sarasate, Paavo Järvi, Orchestre de Paris – 2016
Renaud Capuçon & Khatia Buniatishvili: Franck, Grieg, Dvorak Violin Sonatas
Franck, Grieg, Dvorak Violin Sonatas
Distant Lights – Vasks; Bach: Violin Concertos BWV 1041 & 1042
Renaud Capuçon, violin & direction Chamber Orchestra of Europe Céline Frisch, continuo (Bach) – 2014
La muse et le poète – Concertos
Renaud Capuçon , Camille Saint-Saëns, Lionel Bringuier, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Gautier Capuçon – 2013
Fauré : Complete chamber music for strings
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Nicholas Angelich, Quatuor Ébène – 2011
Beethoven & Korngold : Violin Concertos
Renaud Capuçon, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – 2009
Mozart : Violin Concertos 1 & 3, Sinfonia Concertante
Renaud Capuçon, Louis Langrée, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Antoine Tamestit – 2009
Dutilleux : Concertos • Orchestral Works
Renaud Capuçon, Mstislav Rostropovich, Various Artists – 2008
Brahms : Double Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Myung-Whun Chung, Paul Meyer – 2007
MENDELSSOHN & SCHUMANN : VIOLIN CONCERTOS
Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Harding, Mahler Chamber Orchestra – 2004
BEETHOVEN : TRIPLE CONCERTO & SCHUMANN : PIANO CONCERTO
Martha Argerich, Renaud Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky – 2004
DUTILLEUX : CELLO & VIOLIN CONCERTOS
Truls Mørk, Renaud Capuçon, Myung-Whun Chung, French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – 2002