Gautier Capuçon & Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

‘Sensation of the year’ is how the Society of French Music Critics called a concert series by Tugan Sohiev at the helm of the Toulouse national orchestra in 2005. The legendary André Cluytens, Georges Prêtre and Michel Plasson were doubtless hard acts to follow, but on the heels of big successes, the orchestra named Sohiev as guest conductor in the same year, and in 2008 as its music director. He won international acclaim with his performances of French and Russian music; his Budapest concert selects from the most important works of these two schools. After works by three emblematic figures of French music, it is the turn of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird suite, which has Russian roots yet French tonality. Soloist is leading French cellist Gautier Capuçon, 35, who performs the composition of French composer Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916), completed in 1970, inspired by the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich.