Concert
Renaud Capuçon & Igor Levit
Bach, Busoni & Franck
Wednesday 05 April - 20h30
Conservatoire Darius Milhaud
Edition 2023
While Renaud Capuçon needs no introduction, especially at the Easter Festival, the same cannot be said for the prodigiously talented Igor Levit.
According to Le Monde, the German-Russian pianist comes off as a “likeable wizard”, thanks to his exceptional palette of sound and extremely sure-fingered velocity.
They bring us an eclectic programme of sonatas for violin and piano: Bach’s masterful Violin Sonata in F Major, the almost “Brahmsian” Violin Sonata No. 2 in E Minor (1900) by Italian composer Ferrucio Busoni – a huge admirer of Bach – and César Franck’s famed Violin Sonata (1886), whose melancholic yet romantic swoops inspired Marcel Proust’s imaginary “Vinteuil Sonata”.