Renaud and Gautier Capuçon

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Renaud and Gautier Capuçon are musicians from France who are credited for bringing sex appeal to classical music and simultaneously bringing symphonic music to a new generation. Renaud began playing the violin when he was four while Gautier took up the cello when he was five years old. Despite their age difference --Renaud is five years Gautier's senior-- they began playing music together when Gautier was 15 and Renaud was 20. Both leading musicians, the Capuçon brothers hold Brahms's music particularly close while still approaching classical music with a modern ear.