The Enescu Project Nicolas Dautricourt & Capriccio Quartett

• George Enescu (1881 - 1955): Aubade in C Major for String Trio:
• 1 Enescu: Aubade in C Major for String Trio 03:54
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912): Thaïs:
• 2 Massenet: Thaïs: Méditation (Arr. N. Dautricourt for Strings) 05:10
• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945): 44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz. 98 (Excerpts):
• 3 Bartók: 44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz. 98 (Excerpts): No. 7, Walachian Song - No. 36a, Variation - No. 35, Ruthenian Kolomejka 03:01
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931): Sonata in D Minor, Op. 27 No. 3 "Ballade":
• 4 Ysaÿe: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 27 No. 3 "Ballade" 07:20
• George-Ioan Păiş: Mémoire déformée, hommage à George Enescu for String Octet:
• 5 Păiş: Mémoire déformée, hommage à George Enescu for String Octet 08:21
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): Élégie in C Minor, Op. 24 (Arr. A. Lamarre for Strings):
• 6 Fauré: Élégie in C Minor, Op. 24 (Arr. A. Lamarre for Strings) 06:56
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arr. N. Dautricourt for Strings):
• 7 Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arr. N. Dautricourt for Strings) 05:29
• George Enescu (1881 - 1955): Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7:
• 8 Enescu: Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7: I. Très modéré - II. Même temps 12:10
• 9 Enescu: Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7: IIIa. Très fougueux 08:14
• 10 Enescu: Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7: IIIb. Lentement 09:48
• 11 Enescu: Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7: IV. Mouvement de valse bien rythmée 08:31
• Total Runtime 01:18:54

Info for The Enescu Project

The Enescu Project began life in the concert hall and has now been faithfully recorded to create this album. The programme is devoted to the music of the great Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu, and to that of his contemporaries and friends, creating a sense of the context in which Enescu was composing. Enescu studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Massenet and Fauré; rubbed shoulders and shared a stage with Bartók and Ravel; was the dedicatee of a sonata by Ysaÿe; and Debussy attended the premiere of Enescu’s First Symphony. Music by these composers, for different instrumental combinations, leads us to the focus of the album: Enescu’s beautiful Octet for strings, a work composed when he was only 19 and which had a profound impact on violinist Nicolas Dautricourt when he first heard it. Dautricourt is joined for this recording by a gathering of exceptional string players, and the album booklet includes a QR code that takes listeners to the spoken texts included in the original concert version of this fascinating project.

Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Capriccio Quartet

Nicolas Dautricourt
In January 2019 he made his debuts at the Paris Philharmonie with Orchestre National d’Ile de France, performing Prokofiev second violin concerto under british conductor Jamie Philipps, and appears regularly at major international venues, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées among others. He also appears at many classical and jazz festivals such as Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Festival Enesco in Bucharest, Music@Menlo, Pärnu, Ravinia, Sintra, Davos, Tokyo and Nantes Folles Journées, Jazz à Vienne, Marciac Jazz Festival, Jazz à la Grange, and has performed with the Detroit Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, SWR Saarbrücken, BBC Wales National Orchestra, Aachen Symphony, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Quebec Symphony, Oulu Sinfonia, Liège Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Novosibirsk Philharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, International Players Busan, Mexico Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo Chamber Orchestra and the Kanazawa Orchestral Ensemble, under conductors Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi, Fabien Gabel, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Tugan Sokhiev, Frédéric Chaslin, Stanislas Lefort, Philippe Auguin, David Niemann, Dennis Russell Davies, Wolfgang Doerner, Carlos-Miguel Prieto, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Yuri Bashmet, Michaël Francis, François-Xavier Roth, and Kazuki Yamada.

Awarded in numerous international violin contests, such as Wieniawski, Lipizer, and Belgrade, he has studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, and teaches since 2021 at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Versailles.

Artistic director of the « Fêtes Musicales de Corbigny », Nicolas Dautricourt plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivari, the "Château Pape-Clément" (Cremona 1713), on loan from Bernard Magrez, and in January 2021, has received from the French Ministry of Culture, the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

"Voted ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year at Midem in Cannes, awarded the Sacem Georges Enesco Prize, guest artist at the 23rd Victoires de la Musique in Toulouse and a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, Nicolas Dautricourt is one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation.

Capriccio Quartet
a long-established and highly respected group of experienced professional string players, offers music for weddings, corporate events and private functions in Worcestershire, neighbouring counties and across the West Midlands.

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Booklet for The Enescu Project