The spirit of the cello from Schubert to Britten Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley's album Arpeggione The Capuçon brothers Renaud and Gautier and pianist Frank Braley: for years a guarantor of the finest chamber music from Viennese classical to classical modern, from Beethoven to Schubert and Brahms to Ravel and Fauré. Now cellist Gautier Capuçon is opening a new chapter together with Frank Braley: an album with Schubert's famous Arpeggione Sonata and works from Schumann and Debussy to Britten It was in 1824 that Schubert wrote a work for the instrument called the "arpeggione" - a forgotten hybrid of guitar and cello invented during that time. Today, the great sonata has not only established itself as a masterpiece of Schubert's chamber music, it has become, in the common cello version, the archetype of the Romantic cello sonata. This is where Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley come in when they emphasize the narrative gesture of this music and continue its traditions: Robert Schumann, a great admirer of Schubert, broke with the formal precepts of the sonata in favor of free character pieces in his Five Pieces in Folk Tone. Claude Debussy, on the other hand, viewed the genre in his late work through the colorful light of emerging modernism. Finally, with Benjamin Britten - who who, in the words of Gautier Capuçon, wrote his Sonata for Mstislav Rostropovich in 1961, a work that is far too rarely performed - this classical modernism meets brilliant virtuosity.