Gautier Capuçon & Frank Braley - Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2016)

Following on from last year’s live recording of the Shostakovich cello concertos, this album sees Gautier return to the studio with his friend and recital partner of many years, Frank Braley, in a programme of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Cello and Piano. In addition the album includes Beethoven’s wonderful variations on three different themes – two on arias from Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte, and the other from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus. This is the first new recording of the complete Beethoven cello works for some time and is a long-awaited release.

Gautier Capuçon has a firm reputation as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is a regular performer with the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony, and at festivals such as Verbier and Lugano, and has won several awards at the ECHOS and the Victoires de la Musique.

Tracklist:
01. Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: I. Adagio sostenuto - Allegro
02. Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: II. Rondo - Allegro vivace
03. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: I. Adagio sostenuto ed espressivo - Allegro molto più tosto presto
04. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2: II. Rondo - Allegro
05. Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: I. Allegro ma non tanto
06. Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: II. Scherzo - Allegro molto
07. Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: III. Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace
08. Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1: I. Andante - Allegro vivace
09. Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1: II. Adagio - Tempo d'Andante - Allegro vivace
10. Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: I. Allegro con brio
11. Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: II. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto - Attaca
12. Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: III. Allegro - Allegro fugato
13. 7 Variations on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, WoO 46
14. 12 Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen", from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Op. 66
15. 12 Variations on "See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes", from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, WoO 45