Sensations

by Gautier Capucon

Overview

The crossover album is not quite as highly developed a genre in France as it is in Britain and the U.S., but cellist Gautier Capucon is having great success with a sequence of single-word-titled albums. Sensations, released in 2022, is the latest, and it makes a fine place to try these out for listeners in France or anywhere else. Indeed, part of what makes Capucon's program work here is its variety; much of the material is not French, and the French pieces often have some kind of twist. Fans of Frank Sinatra, for instance, may not have known the French origin of one of his most famous songs. It is a rare European album of any kind that would include a rendition of Amazing Grace, and both Capucon's placement and his performance of this melody are haunting. Capucon mixes orchestral, small-group, and piano-accompanied pieces of both classical and pop origin. In the classical pieces, his arrangers serve him well, putting the cello front and center while keeping the flavors of the originals. The end result is a collection of favorites, remade for the cello, that maintains its variety and never cloys. This album is a superior and totally fresh example of its type. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	01/13/2023
Label:	ERATO
UPC:	0190296157134

Tracks

1. Over the Rainbow (from the film "The Wizard of Oz")
2. Rom¿¿o et Juliette~Dance of the Knights (Danse des chevaliers)
3. Amazing Grace
4. Singin' in the Rain (from the film "Singin' in the Rain")
5. Schindler's List~Main Theme
6. L-O-V-E
7. La vie en rose
8. Adagio for strings
9. Comme d'habitude
10. Gabriel's Oboe (from the film "The Mission")
11. Bachianas brasileiras No. 5, W389~I. ¿¿ria. Cantilena
12. Slavonic Dances No. 2 (Dumka)
13. The Moldau (from "M¿¿ Vlast")
14. Peer Gynt~In the Hall of the Mountain King
15. Turandot~Nessun Dorma
16. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg~I Will Wait for You
17. Symphony No. 9 'The New World'~II. Largo [Excerpt]
18. The Windmills of Your Mind (from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair")
19. Quand on n'a que l'amour
20. West Side Story~Mambo

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gautier Capucon   Primary Artist,Cello
Capucelli   Ensemble
Johanna Malangre   Conductor
Fatma Said   Soprano (Vocal)
Lucienne Renaudin Vary   Trumpet
Jerome Ducros   Piano
Orchestre National de Bretagne   Orchestra

Technical Credits

Simon Fowler   Photography
Laurent Guizard   Photography
James Bort   Photography
Jacques Revaux   Composer
Jacques Brel   Composer
Claude Francois   Composer
Edvard Grieg   Composer
John Williams   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Nacio Herb Brown   Composer
Michel Legrand   Composer
Samuel Barber   Composer
Sergey Prokofiev   Composer
Bert Kaempfert   Composer
Antonin Dvorak   Composer
Ennio Morricone   Arranger,Composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos   Composer
John Newton   Composer
Giacomo Puccini   Composer
Bedrich Smetana   Composer
Michael Fine   Mixing,Editing,Producer,Mastering
Louis Louiguy   Composer
Cecile Lenoir   Mixing,Editing,Producer,Mastering
Jerome Ducros   Arranger,Transcription
Jin Choi   Engineer,Mastering
Alain Lanceron   Executive Producer
Gautier Capucon   Liner Notes
Harold Arlen   Composer
Christophe Licoppe   Photography
Stephane Gambini   Design,Photo Editing