The recording: Filming and editing carried out by Prismedia on August 26, 2020, during the 15th Rocamadour Festival, in the Lot, in the Dordogne Valley. The program: The Sonata for violin and piano in A major opus 13 is the first of Gabriel Fauré's two violin sonatas. Composed in 1875 in Sainte-Adresse and completed in early 1876, it was premiered on January 27, 1877 at the Société nationale de musique in Paris by Marie Tayau on the violin and the composer on the piano with a very warm welcome. It inaugurates the new French chamber music with its originality and formal perfection. Dedicated to the violinist Paul Viardot to whose sister Fauré had just become engaged, it was published in 1877 by Breitkopf and Härtel. The performers: Renaud Capuçon: Inseparable from his 1737 instrument, the Guarneri del Gesù, which belonged to the Viscount of Panette, then to Isaac Stern, one of his mentors and professor, Renaud Capuçon is one of the most talented violinists in the world. Born in Chambéry in 1976, he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with Gérard Poulet and Veda Reynolds, then with Thomas Brandis in Berlin and Isaac Stern. Konzertmeister of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester since 1998, he was named “Rising Star” and “New Talent of the Year” at the Victoires de la Musique two years later. Numerous collaborations with the greatest conductors and the most prestigious orchestras in the world followed. He traveled throughout Europe, the United States and Asia and forged a prestigious career. Named “Instrumental Soloist of the Year” in 2005, he was awarded the Georges Enesco Prize by Sacem the following year. He was promoted to “Knight in the National Order of Merit” in June 2011 and “Knight of the Legion of Honor” in March 2016. International soloist, chamber musician, author of an impressive discography, founder and artistic director of the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival and the Gstaad Les Sommets Musicaux Festival, Renaud Capuçon has also been a professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne since September 2014, where he enjoys sharing his passion. It is therefore with great enthusiasm that the violinist joined the HEMU to form the Lausanne Soloists, and thus develop his relationship with students and share the experience of high-level ensemble playing during international tours. Guillaum Bellom Considered one of the rising stars of French piano, Guillaume Bellom also has one of the most atypical careers of his generation, studying violin alongside piano, from the Besançon Conservatory to the CNSM in Paris. It was through contact with notable musical figures, such as Nicholas Angelich and Hortense Cartier-Bresson, that he fully developed his activity as a pianist. The Rocamadour Festival: This festival was created in 2006 thanks to the initiative of music lovers passionate about the history of Rocamadour and in particular its medieval musical heritage but also more recent with the passage of Francis Poulenc. The vocation of promoting sacred music was obvious for this sanctuary city whose Basilica of Saint-Sauveur and the Crypt of Saint Amadour are classified as UNESCO world heritage sites. A city of vertigo and an exceptional heritage for perfect acoustics that gives this unique touch of magic to each concert. From a few concerts, the festival has, over the years, created its history, found its audience and established links to become today the unmissable cultural event during a visit to the Dordogne Valley region.