Bruno Philippe / Jérôme Ducros RACHMANINOV - MYASKOVSKY Sonatas for Cello and Piano

SONATAS FOR CELLO AND PIANO

JOHAN FARJOT Childhood

CHILDHOOD

GUILLAUME CONNESSON Musique de chambre

Guillaume Connesson, born in 1970, is currently one of the most widely performed French composers worldwide. Commissions are at the origin of most of his works (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France...) including Pour sortir au jour, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2013) and Les Trois Cités de Lovecraft (co-commission of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon). Moreover, his music is regularly played by numerous orchestras (Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra et al.)
He won a Victoires de la Musique award in 2015 as well as Sacem’s Grand Prize in 2012.
His discography includes, amongst others, two monographs of chamber music and two symphonic monographs on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The first, Lucifer, obtained a ’ Choc’ from Classica magazine, and the second, Pour sortir au jour, numerous critical distinctions such as the ’Diapason d’Or de l’Année’ as well the Classica ’Choc de l’Année’.
After studies at the Conservatoire National de Région in Boulogne-Billancourt (his birthplace) and the Paris Conservatoire, he obtained premiers prix in choral direction, history of music, analysis, electro-acoustic and orchestration.
He has been professor of orchestration at the Aubervilliers-La Courneuve Conservatory since 1997.
In residence from 2016 to 2018 with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with the Orchestre National de Lyon, he is also devoting himself to the composition of an opera, Les Bains macabres (on a libretto by Olivier Bleys), commissioned by the Opéra National de Bordeaux.

Gautier Capuçon INTUITION

Gautier Capuçon releases his latest album Intuition on Warner/Erato. Released on 2 February 2018, it is an album featuring a collection of short pieces for cello with orchestra and cello with piano.
The orchestral works, which include pieces such as Massenet’s Méditation de Thais, Rachmaninov’s Vocalise, and Saint-Saëns’ ‘The Swan’ from Carnival of the Animals, were recorded with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under the direction of Douglas Boyd. The other half of the album features recital pieces from Joplin, Dvořák, Paganini, Piazzolla and Ducros, and were recorded with long-term duo-partner Jérôme Ducros.
“Since childhood, intuition has guided me on my journey through the cello landscape. Before horsehair vibrates across strings, before technique and training kick in; music begins with intuition.” Gautier Capuçon 
Throughout the 2017/18 season, Capuçon will perform works from the Intuition album worldwide. With the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris he will appear in Aix, Paris, Berlin, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, and Hamburg; and with Ducros he will perform in Moscow, London, Toronto, and Santa Monica.