Renaud Capuçon review – Les Choices de la vie

Since the beginning of sound films, film music has not had to hide behind orchestral works. Famous film composers were also virtuoso symphonists, from Korngold to Morricone. Star violinist Renaud Capucson knows this too. While he focused on Hollywood and Cinecitta in his first film music album, his next album, Les Chooses de la vie, features French film music. Of course it has a lot to offer: engaging drama, vibrant dance rhythms, heartbreaking longing, tear-jerking melancholy, and enchanting tenderness. He also had hits such as Michel Legrand's “The Windmills of Your Mind” from “The Thomas Crown Affair” or Francis Lye's “Love Story” and Jean-Claude Petit's reworking of Verdi. With its mood, full of warmth and plenty of emotion, great dramatic tension and sensitively orchestrated nuances, this recording by Renaud Capucson is captivating. The Les Siècles Orchestra, conducted by conductor Duncan Ward, once again demonstrates diversity, suggestive power and individual qualities.

Life Choices – Second Cinema
Works by Deleroux, Legrand, Cosma, Jean-Claude Petit, Philippe Sardi, Alexandre Desplat and others

Renaud Capson (violin), Les Sickles, Duncan Ward (leader)
Erato

Renault Capocon

French violinist Renaud Capusson, born in Chambery in 1976, has an international reputation as a soloist and chamber musician. At just 14 years old, he studied in Gerard Boulet's violin class at the Paris Conservatory. After…continue