Artist: Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley
Album: Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 02:23:49
Total Tracks: 15
Total Size: 2,64 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: I. Adagio sostenuto – Allegro (16:41)
1-02. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: II. Rondo – Allegro vivace (06:46)
1-03. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: I. Adagio sostenuto ed espressivo – Allegro molto più tosto presto (19:49)
1-04. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: II. Rondo – Allegro (08:42)
1-05. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: I. Allegro ma non tanto (12:07)
1-06. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: II. Scherzo – Allegro molto (05:28)
1-07. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: III. Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace (08:32)
1-08. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1: I. Andante – Allegro vivace (07:45)
1-09. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1: II. Adagio – Tempo d’Andante – Allegro vivace (07:25)
1-10. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: I. Allegro con brio (06:26)
1-11. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: II. Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto – Attaca (07:29)
1-12. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: III. Allegro – Allegro fugato (04:50)
1-13. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – 7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen”, from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, WoO 46 (09:18)
1-14. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – 12 Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen”, from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 66 (09:56)
1-15. Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley – 12 Variations on “See, the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, WoO 45 (12:26)

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Universally recognised as the finest cellist of his generation, Gautier Capuçon has a firm reputation as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is a regular performer with the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony, and at festivals such as Verbier and Lugano, and has won several awards at the ECHOS and the Victoires de la Musique.

Following on from last year’s live recording of the Shostakovich cello concertos, this album sees Gautier return to the studio with his friend and recital partner of many years, Frank Braley, in a programme of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Cello and Piano. In addition the album includes Beethoven’s wonderful variations on three different themes – two on arias from Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte, and the other from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus. This is the first new recording of the complete Beethoven cello works for some time and is a long-awaited release.