First there is a first Gautier Capuçon, symbol of classical music to the general public. The man for big occasions. The cellist who is grieving at Johnny’s funeral, December 9, 2017 at the Madeleine church. The one, same serious face, same music (After a dream de Fauré), who is dark on a sidewalk on Île Saint-Louis the day after the Notre-Dame fire in April 2019. The guy who is asked to play for the thirty years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, echoing the famous spontaneous concert of November 11, 1989 given by the Russian Mstislav Rostropovitch.
Whether on Radio Classique, where he has hosted “Les Carnets de Gautier Capuçon” for three years, or on television, where since 2014 he has been part of the jury for the very popular program “Prodiges”, on France 2, the musician is everywhere. . To those who accuse him of perverting his art, he replies: “I have all the more pleasure in doing it because I see the incredible number of kids and families who have discovered classical music thanks to television. »
It is in this spirit of sharing that he imagined, coming out of confinement, in 2020, A summer in France, a concert tour that he will end up providing free of charge after a controversy has pointed to fees deemed disproportionate. Issue resolved the following year with the partnership of Société Générale.
“Democratizing music does not mean sacrificing quality”, adds the cellist, who performed this summer in fifteen cities in the company of pianist Jérôme Ducros, young talents and children from the Orchester à l’école association, which he has sponsored since 2020. No one will forget this July 24 at Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var), in front of 5,000 people gathered at the Parc de la Méditerranée. “We played classic pieces, popular pieces and, in the middle, the Praise to the Eternity of Jesus the messiahs, he boasts. The fact that this music has moved people so deeply has deeply touched the believer that I am. »
The second Gautier Capuçon is a James Bond adventurer, fascinated since childhood by the tribulations of the cellist Maurice Baquet (1911-2005), also an actor, mountaineer, filmmaker and French entertainer. Didn’t he go so far as to post a picture on Twitter of himself standing fully clothed in the water of a lake near Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, a cello floating by his side? A tribute to one of the famous photos of Baquet taken by his friend Robert Doisneau, where we see the head of the musician, Charon of modern times, with his instrument as a boat.
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