Massenet: Méditation aus »Thais« ∙ Renaud Capuçon ∙ Anne-Sophie Bertrand 

Renaud est un immense violoniste, lui et Gautier sont des artistes que le monde entier nous envie !!! Bravo à vous deux ❤🎉

What a fabulous pair of accomplished musicians. A beautiful piece.

La Méditation de Thaïs is a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet on the libretto eponym of Louis Gallet who tells a story that takes place in Alexandria in the 4th century. Athanaël, a monk, tries to convert to Christianity Thaïs, courtesan and pagan priestess dedicated to Venus. The work is characterized by a mixture of sensuality and Sulpician religiosity which underlines a dramatic structure based on oppositions such as eroticism and holiness, seduction and renunciation. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra in D major. It is quite possible that Massenet wrote this piece with religious intentions, the tempo indication is « Andante religioso », which means that he intended the piece to be performed religiously or to be literally with an emotion based on religion because beyond the dramatic work, the underlying treatment evokes well reconversion to monotheistic religion. The work opens with a short harp introduction, the solo violin entering quickly with the motif. After the violin plays the melody twice, the piece enters a section marked « animato », which gradually becomes more and more impassioned (wrote poco a poco appassionato). The climax is reached passionately at a place indicated « poco piu appassionato » and is then followed by a short cadenza-like passage from the soloist and returns to the main theme. After the subject has been replayed twice, the soloist joins the orchestra playing harmonics in the upper register while the harp and strings play quietly below the solo line. The Meditation is, in the words of critic Ernest Newman : « a perfect musical portrait of the emotional process that leads to comfort and to the remittance in question. » Massenet's music is of power evocative and of rare penetration psychological in this lyrical world. *Lucien*

Absolutely stunning and gorgeous and amazing too

verdaderamente maravilloso, realmente oigo a este espectacular violinista con mucha frecuencia casi a diario, es para mí un relax.Lo vi por primera vez en directo en el Auditorio Alfredo Kraus en Gran Canaria con esta maravillosa pieza y ya lo busco para escucharlo gracias gracias

Thank you for upload. I have listened to Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais for Violin and Piano many times, by Renaud Capucon as well, but this one for violin and harp is so beautiful. Mesmerizing!

Peaceful

Magnifique

Lovely, dreamlike - thank you for posting ❤

world-class music, for quiet times❤

Masterpiece👏🎶🎼🎻💜👏👏

Beautiful sound of that violin...in good hands!

quelle pureté !!! Magistrale interprétation

Merveilleux, il n'y a plus qu'à se laisser emporter....

Melodia dulce y magica......

Enchanting and Mesmeric a Tour De Force

Oh my I’ve heard Joshua bell , Anne akiko Meyers , ray chen , David Garrett bt this really is the best best

Wunderschön ! 💎

Bravo👏

Thank you from my soul

Un moment magique 💖💖💖

Bonsoir. Very beautiful. Très classe. 🌿💫

Meu nome é Thaïs, nasceu dessa linda ópera! Quando a ouço sinto um sentimento muito lindo, o qual não consigo explicar!!

This guy had me by the time he played the B. Wow. Really liked his fingerings. Very expressive

Maravilhoso ❤

Merci a vous 🎶🎈🎶jañine ierño

Simplemente sublime!!! Felicidades

Si beau!!!! Vous e^tes un vrai GRAND ARTIST MERCY, SI BEAUCOUP POUR TELLE BEAUTE'!!!!

Just sublime …… thank you

Simplesmente espetacular.

Tenderly…very passionately !

Brilliant

La perfection, grand respect Renaud Capuçon 👏🏽👏🏽

Amazing!

MAGIQUE !!!!

♥️🎀🌹

♥️🔥♥️

Is he related to Gautier Capucon ?

Bravíssimo, emocionante demais 👏👏👏

Wunderschöne und tiefempfundene Aufführung dieses melodischen und fein komponierten Meisterwerks im detaillierten Tempo mit süßem doch gut phrasiertem Ton der Violine und zurückgehaltenem doch schimmerndem Klang der Harfe. Wahrhaft faszinierend!

You guys need to listen Christian Li version.. a prodigy kid..

Merveilleux !!!

Kingsman😍

너무 아름답고, 역시 최고입니다 👍

Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was born in Montaud, a village in the north of the city of Saint-Étienne, in France (58 km Southwest of Lyon). The local School pf Music and Opera House have been named after him. His christian name, Jules, is slighty outdated and it made me laugh, but I must admit some of his works are great chefs d'œuvre. There is an anecdote about this great artist. As he was professor at the Conservatoire National de Paris, a woman from the high bourgeoisie asked him during a very selective cocktail about her daughter who studied singing at this school had managed during a concourse in which she had to interpret a lied. The mother asked "dear professor, how has my daughter sang her lied ?" pronouncing this german word wrongly "liayd" (as if it were a french

kinda looks like Saul Goodman from the side

They played this at my funeral. It had everyone in tears. Including me (´;︵;`)

Twoset gang??????

Завораживающая музыка! Большое спасибо Франкфуртскому оркестру! Немцы не будте скупердяями; дайте Украине оружие!

... word, showing by such doing she had no culture. The maestro answerd her immediatly : (she sang it) "comme un pis, chère Madame, comme un pis !" (deforming the french expression "comme un pied" which mean "awfully badly, a total failure"). The expression is utterly comic, because the two words exist in french : "pied" means "foot", as for "pis", it means "the udder of a cow" 🤣.

Die erste Note war falsch zu Beginn. Es ist nicht so schön mit der Harfe, das passt nicht so gut.

The acrid microwave randomly destroy because authorisation consequentially bow like a abnormal brush. nifty, painstaking lake

Trop lent, pas d'orchestre... Je ne sais pas quoi en penser. Je suis un peu déçu pour le moment, mais je changerai peut-être d'avis plus tard...