The French violinist Renaud Capuçon regularly pours his soul into his 286-year-old instrument. It’s one of only about 250 Guarneri violins that still exist. For his January Carnegie Hall debut, the ...

Renaud Capuçon’s violin is older than the United States. The instrument, which was made in 1737, was crafted by a rival of Stradivarius, the Italian master Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri. The trademark ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The appeal of a major romantic concerto to international violinists has lifted Elgar’s concerto out of the ...

When superstar violinist Renaud Capuçon joins the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ludovic Morlot next week to perform Henri Dutilleux’s concerto “L’arbre des Songes” (“The Tree of Dreams”), ...

It has all the earmarks of a great movie score: sweeping soundscapes, stirring melodies. But it's actually a concert hall violin concerto by a composer whose day job was writing movie music. Violinist ...

Reporting from Paris — It is easy to imagine that a pair of French classical musical prodigies like the Capuçon brothers — who began to play their instruments before kindergarten — would not be ...

Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist. Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music. Capuçon was born in Chambéry on 27 January 1976. He ...

Since 2007 and for two weeks through Easter, Aix en Provence Easter Festival has taken place every year in the beautiful city of Aix en Provence. The Festival was created seven years ago by two French ...

Old money, new money, what’s the difference? Well, the German federal state of Saxony is a bit larger than Leinster, and has a population nearly twice as high. Yet its economic output (at least until ...

The exciting pianist Martha Argerich seems most comfortable on stage these days when she is egging on extravagantly gifted young players, such as the French brothers Renaud and Gautier Capucon. Last ...

It is a mesmerising solo violin that embarks on a journey of sound colours. Written by Leonard Bernstein, it’s a unique beginning for a violin concerto marvelously interpreted by Renaud Capuçon. “I ...

Duos for violin and cello (tr. Frederick Neumann): Invention No.8 in F major BWV 779 Duos for violin and cello (tr. Frederick Neumann): Aria: Suite Française No.2 in C minor BWV 813 Duos for violin ...