Cinema
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Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Erato
Magazine Review Date: 12/2018
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 76
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 9029 56339-3
Author: Pwyll ap Siôn
Capuçon works to his strengths here, favouring lyrical melodies that combine sweeping lyricism with expressive power and emotional depth. Andrea and Ennio Morricone’s title music from Cinema paradiso, Nino Rota’s love theme from The Godfather and ‘Moon River’ are just a few examples that display Capuçon’s masterly control over shape, line, weight, balance and gesture.
The violinist holds back from pulling too much at the emotional heartstrings, however, allowing the melodies to speak for themselves. Saccharine moments are applied by Capuçon in soupçons rather than ladlefuls. The orchestra – deftly directed by Stéphane Denève – remains largely restrained throughout, providing a cloak around which Capuçon’s violin circles and soars. And soar it does in John Williams’s theme from Schindler’s List and at the end of ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’ from The Mission.
Yet it is those subtle moments that remain in the mind – the hesitant rocking figure in Schindler’s List, which immediately captures the film’s mood and dark message, or the ethereal, otherworldly ending to Michael Legrand’s ‘Papa, can you hear me?’. Capuçon’s violin charms and beguiles in such a way that singer Nolwenn Leroy’s distinctive voice sounds almost intrusive in ‘Calling you’ from Bagdad Café. More dramatic moments appear in the brace of themes by Vladimir Cosma (‘Le Concerto de Berlin’ and ‘The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe’), but this is definitely a recording wherein the listener is invited to luxuriate in the warmth of the film’s soundtrack – stupider, and worse, or not.
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