INTERVIEW
Renaud Capuçon is one of the most brilliant representatives of "made in France" music in the world. At 44, he is one of the best violinists on the planet. On March 4, he published a book called Perpetual Movement. Guest of Philippe Vandel, Thursday, in Culture Media on Europe 1, he told us about a more or less unexpected hearing which he knew a few years ago.
If music lovers don't necessarily know him, moviegoers may have already come across him on screen. Renaud Capuçon played in a short film by Simon Lelouch: 7.57 am-pm, released in 2010. He played a musician in the Paris metro, playing the violin in one of the trains of line 6. "The idea was to reproduce what Joshua Bell had done in the United States, "he explains. "He had raised a few dollars on the subway when the next day, in a large concert hall in Washington, he was cheered."
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"It's okay, you can stay"
And for Renaud Capuçon, the experience took a turn ... unexpected! "When I was waiting for the train," he recalls, "a real subway musician, who felt at home, came by and said 'who are you?' Surprised, the professional violinist laughs an answer before the metro musician continues: "Go ahead, play!". Renaud Capuçon does so before hearing from his interlocutor, after a few notes: "It's good, you can stay".
"It was extraordinary," he laughs, "I had a mini-audition in the metro!". As for his performance in line 6, Renaud Capuçon remarked that "people didn't want to hear me at all". "They were wondering what I was doing there," he says, "and almost had hateful looks." However, the violinist shows understanding, "we do not necessarily want to be moved at 11 am or hear a guy playing the violin".