Public personality, creator of institutions and media man, the 41 -year -old French musician at the international career comes out at Erato the album “Sensations”, anthology of classical music, musical, French song and standards cinema.
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There is first a first Gautier Capuçon, symbol of classical music with the general public. The man of special occasions. The cellist who packed during Johnny’s funeral on December 9, 2017 at the Madeleine church. The one, the same serious face, same music (after a dream of the fauré), which sits on a sidewalk of the island of Saint-Louis in the aftermath of the fire of Notre-Dame, in April 2019. The guy to whom the ‘We ask to play for the thirty years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, echoing the famous spontaneous concert of November 11, 1989 given by the Russian Mstislav Rostropovitch.
Whether on Radio Classique, where he has been animating for three years “Les Carnets de Gautier Capuçon”, or on television, where he has participated since 2014 in the jury of the very popular program “Prodiges”, on France 2, the musician is everywhere. To those who accuse him of detecting his art, he retorts: “I have all the more pleasure of doing so that I see the mind -blowing number of kids and families who discovered classical music thanks to television.”
It is in this spirit of sharing that he imagined, after confinement, in 2020, a summer in France, a tour of concerts that he will eventually ensure graciously after a controversy has pointed out stamps deemed disproportionate. Question resolved the following year with the partnership of Société Générale.
“Democratizing music does not imply that the quality is to sacrifice”, adds the cellist, which occurred this summer in fifteen cities in the company of the pianist Jérôme Ducros, young talents and children ‘Orchestra association at the school, which he has been sponsoring since 2020. No one will forget this July 24 in Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var), in front of 5,000 people gathered at the Park of the Mediterranean. “We played classic pieces, popular pieces and, in the middle, praise to the Eternity of Jesus of Messiaen, he prides himself. The fact that this music has turned people upside down so much touched the believer that I am. “
The second Gautier Capuçon is an adventurer at La James Bond, fascinated since childhood by the tribulations of cellist Maurice Baquet (1911-2005), also actor, mountaineer, filmmaker and fanciful French. Didn’t he go so far as to post a photo of him on Twitter, standing, all dressed in the water of a lake near Schloss Elmau, in Bavaria, a cello floating at his side? A tribute supported to one of the famous photos of Baquet taken by his friend Robert Doisneau, where we see the head of the musician, Charon of modern times, with his instrument as a boat.
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