I came to admire Gautier Capucon when I heard him play the slow movement from a Brahms trio, which is believed to have been Brahms’ expression of love toward Clara Schumann.
In this recording, ‘Intuition’, we get to listen to a captivating album of short pieces for solo cello with piano or orchestra, that has been conceived by Gautier Capuçon to “reflect the story of my life and follow the various stages in my emotional development”.
This CD brings together much-loved numbers by composers such as Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Elgar with newer music by Astor Piazzolla, the Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima and the pianist Jérôme Ducros, who also appears on the album. As Gautier Capuçon says: “In music, in life, communication is the essence of everything and of anything … You share something.”
Here is a video of a concert by Mr. Capucon with pianist Yuja Wang:
