Over to the Radio France and Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Festival 2012 – recorded live by France Musique on July 12, 2012. A recital by violinist Renaud Capucon and pianist Nicholas Angelich in music of Schumann, Brahms and Franck.
Beginning with Robert Schumann: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 in A minor opus 105 – followed by Johannes Brahms: “Sonata for violin and piano no. 2 in A major opus 100 and concluding with César Franck: Sonata for violin and piano in A major.
Renaud Capucon has recorded chamber works of Ravel, Schubert, Brahms, as well concertos for violin by Schumann and Mendelssohn under the direction of Daniel Harding.
After playing a Vuillaume, a Guadagnini, and then a Stradivarius, in 2005 the Banque de Suisse Italienne BSI loaned him a Guarnerius, the “Panette” of 1737 that had belonged to Isaac Stern.
The prizes he has won include the 1992 first in chamber music and 1993 first in violin at CNSMD de Paris, then in 1995, the prize of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 2000, he was named talent of the year by Victoires de la musique classique, which in 2005 awarded him the title “instrumental soloist of the year”. In 2006 he received the Georges Enescu violin prize from the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique.
On 25 May 2009, he participated in the film 7.57 am-pm directed by Simon Lelouch, in which he performed the Melody of Orpheus by Gluck on his Guarnerius in the middle of a crowd of commuters on Line 6 of the Paris Métro, unrecognized and unremarked by the passing crowd.
In June 2011, he was appointed Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by the French government and ‘Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur’ in March 2016.
He has worked with contemporary composers such as Nicolas Bacri (solo violin sonata, 1999), Karol Beffa (duet for violin and cello Masques, concerto for violin, string quartet Mosaïques), Pascal Dusapin (concerto for violin – Aufgang), Bruno Mantovani (concerto for violin – Jeux d’eau, 2012) and Wolfgang Rihm (concerto for violin – Gedicht des Malers, 2015).
Nicholas Angelich studied with Leon Fleisher during his twenties. In 1989 he won second prize in the Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland, Ohio, and won the first prize of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition five years later. He subsequently made his New York recital debut at the Alice Tully Hall in 1995, playing compositions by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel. His performance received a positive review from Anthony Tommasini, who observed how Angelich “boasts a prodigious technique, but wields it with a poise uncommon in someone so young”. Angelich received the Young Talent Award at the 2002 Klavier-Festival Ruhr. He performed with major French orchestras under the conductors Myung-whun Chung and David Robertson. He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in May 2003, playing the Emperor Concerto. He then toured Japan with Masur and the Orchestre National de France the following year. His recording of Brahms trios with Renaud Capuçon and Gautier Capuçon for Erato Records received a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
During his 2009–10 tour, Angelich gave recitals in Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Teatro della Pergola (Florence), Milan Conservatory, The Hague, and Theatre du Chatelet (Paris). Considered one of the great pianists of our time, he was featured on the cover of the October 2009 issue of International Piano, whose feature article is about his recording of Brahms’s Op.116 to Op.119 on the Erato Records label. He later performed Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand at the opening of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s 2010–2011 season in Dundee’s Caird Hall, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall from September 23 to 25 under conductor Stéphane Denève.
Angelich again played under Denève with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018. He stopped performing in 2021,[4] but intended to close the 2021–22 season of the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal with two planned concerts in June 2022.
Angelich died on April 18, 2022, of degenerative lung failure, after a rejection of lung transplantation at the Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris. He was 51, and suffered from chronic lung disease prior to his death. He did not have any immediate survivors.
On to the concert:
