The highly-esteemed French cellist Gautier Capuçon accompanied by pianist Alexandre Kantorow in the following works: Beethoven’s 1801 Seven Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’, a duet praising the power of love from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute ; Brahms’s 1886 Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Opus 99; Olivier Messiaen’s Louange à l’éternité de Jésus from his Quatuor pour la fin du temps (‘Quartet for the End of Time’), written in 1941 while the composer was incarcerated in a German prisoner-of-war camp; and an arrangement for cello and piano by J Delsart of the 1886 Violin Sonata in A major, a fiery masterpiece by the Belgian composer César Franck (1822–90).
Both Gautier Capuçon and Alexandre Kantorow performed at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics; Gautier Capuçon also carried the Olympic flame.
Issue 67, December 2024
Beauty in the Wilderness
