Renaud Capucon / Martha Argerich

Beethoven, Schumann, Franck (CD)

Renaud Capuçon and Martha Argerich came together in April 2022 for a joint recital at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence, and their extraordinary rapport comes across in this performance of three of the repertoire’s finest violin sonatas, captured live in a concert that they dedicated to their friend and colleague, the pianist Nicholas Angelich, who had died shortly before. Having first met over thirty years ago, when he was a young violinist and she was already a legendary pianist, Capuçon and Argerich are now a well-established duo. They know one another so well that, whenever they go out on stage, “there is no fear,” says Capuçon. “It’s as if we just hold hands and leap.”

TRACK LIST

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A minor op. 105
Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
Allegretto
Lebhaft

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A major “Kreutzer” op. 47
Adagio sostenuto – Presto
Andante con variazioni – Var. I–IV – Tempo I
Finale. Presto

CÉSAR FRANCK (1822–1890)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major FWV 8
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitativo-Fantasia. Ben moderato – Molto lento – A tempo moderato
Allegretto poco mosso