New at Noon: August 20, 2025

He’s been called a five-star successor to Isaac Stern. This would make Violinist Renaud Capucon very happy, since he studied with Stern for a time, and now plays the Guarneri del Gesù “Panette” (1737), which belonged to Isaac Stern.   Capucon is also praised as a, “seasoned romantic when it comes to the Sibelius Concerto.”  Find out if that’s true Wednesday at 12:00 when we spin the new recording of the Concerto.  Renaud Capucon with Daniel Harding conducting Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, New at Noon on 90.9 WGUC. (photo: SIMON FOWLER)