Gautier Capuçon: Destination Paris
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Genre:
Chamber
Label: Erato
Magazine Review Date: 12/2023
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 75
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 5419772146
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Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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La foule |
Ángel Cabral, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Carmen, Movement: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera) |
Georges Bizet, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Les Champs-Elysées |
Mike Deighan, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
La Veuve Joyeuse, Movement: Heure Exquise |
Franz Lehár, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Les feuilles mortes |
Joseph Kosma, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano |
Les Sauvages |
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Summer of '42 |
Michel Legrand, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Les copains d’abord |
Georges Brassens, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano |
Roméo et Juliette, 'Romeo and Juliet', Movement: Je veux vivre (Waltz) |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
(Une) Homme et une femme |
Francis Lai, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Pense à Nous |
Jean-Jacques Goldman, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Chi Mai |
Ennio Morricone, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Pavane pour une Infante défunte |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
La Bohème |
Charles Aznavour, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano |
Beau soir |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano |
Belle |
Richard Cocciante, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Envole-moi |
Jean-Jacques Goldman, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
La chanson d’Hélène |
Philippe Sarde, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano |
(Les) Contes d'Hoffmann, '(The) Tales of Hoffmann', Movement: Barcarolle (orchestral version). |
Jacques Offenbach, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Mépris, Movement: Camille |
Georges Delerue, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Sicilienne |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Jérôme Ducros, Piano |
La Boum, Movement: Reality |
Vladimir Cosma, Composer
Gautier Capuçon, Cello Lionel Bringuier, Conductor Paris Chamber Orchestra |
Author: Adrian Edwards
We last encountered Gautier Capuçon on his album ‘Sensations’ (1/23), striding at low tide towards Mont Saint-Michel with cello in hand. His destination now is Paris, where he offers a musical toast to the city that will soon host the Olympic Games.
Melodies such as Beau soir, Heifetz after Debussy, contrast with upbeat tracks such as Rameau’s Danse des sauvages, given a rumbustious performance, and Jean-Jacques Goldman’s Envole moi, a tune remarkably similar to Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I will survive’. In a similar vein are Waterloo Road, a tune of British origin, lost in translation as Les Champs-Élysées, and the sprightly waltz La foule, a song from Peru written in 1936 by Ángel Cabral but not widely aired until Piaf took it into her repertoire in 1953.
I mention these facts because the album is short on provenance. Little needs to be added to such familiar fare as the Habenera from Bizet’s Carmen, the Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann or Fauré’s Sicilienne, given a delightful lilt in this performance, but there are a selection of transcriptions of French popular songs that will be less familiar to many, including tunes associated with singers like Aznavour, Dassin and Brassens as well as titles derived from French films, and one from the musical Notre-Dame de Paris, which made it to the West End in 2000. The song ‘Belle’, a doleful composition sung by Quasimodo, is given a moving interpretation by Capuçon, whose artistry elevates a fair number of them for more than their worth.
How much one misses or loses in these transcriptions depends to a degree on familiarity with the original. I found myself filling in the a cappella vocal line to the theme tune from the movie Un homme et une femme. No one, though, will miss the lyric to The Summer Knows (and sheds her clothes), where Legrand’s fine tune is given an expansive workout. I’m grateful to Capuçon and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris for introducing me to such delightful pieces as La chanson d’Hélène, Les copains d’abord and Delerue’s Thème de Camille. I expressed some reservations about ‘Sensations’ regarding the cello’s suitability for the chosen repertoire but these have dissipated with this new release.
Of particular note among the performers are the children from the Bondy and Paris commune with their crowd-pleasing number Pense à nous, counterpoint from Capuçon, newly written by Jean-Jacques Goldman. The recording venue, the Salle Colonne in Paris, has a fair reverberation and one is aware, en route, of Capuçon’s intakes of breath. With Jerôme Ducros as his indefatigable keyboard player and arranger, ‘Destination Paris’ is an agreeable aperitif of things to come.
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