Ravel's complete chamber music (1/3): Renaud Capuçon, Guillaume Bellom, Arthur Hinnewinkel, and the Quatuor Dutilleux

The 2025 Rencontres Musicales d'Évian pay tribute to Maurice Ravel 150 years after his birth with an all-star lineup performing the complete set of Ravel's highly spirited, kaleidoscopically colorful chamber music! This volume brings violin virtuoso Renaud Capuçon together with pianists Guillaume Bellom and Arthur Hinnewinkel to perform both of the Sonatas for Violin and Piano: the youthful, single-movement No. 1 in A minor, and mature, jazz-inflected No. 2 in G whose second movement, entitled "Blues," is one of Ravel's most memorable homages to the new musical modes popular in 20th-century America. Finally, the four talented musicians of the Quatuor Dutilleux perform the atmospheric and richly textured String Quartet in F, featuring an immediately compelling, pizzicato-heavy second movement that counts among the most charmingly original creations in Ravel's oeuvre.

Photo: Renaud Capuçon © Simon Fowler / Parlophone Records