Interview
Gautier Capuçon in conversation with Sarah Willis
Semyon Bychkov and Gautier Capuçon
Richard Strauss often came in for caustic criticism for his innovative music. He traces these conflicts in his tone poem Ein Heldenleben: biting, original, with an opulent orchestra sound. Dmitri Shostakovich’s battles in the dictatorship under Stalin were even more existential. Here too, there is an echo of this in the composer’s music, including in the First Cello Concerto – which can be heard here with Gautier Capuçon as the soloist. Semyon Bychkov conducts.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Semyon Bychkov
Gautier Capuçon
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