Brahms Berg: Violin Concertos

Brahms Berg: Violin Concertos

Renaud Capucon , the leading French violinist of his generation, joins the British conductor Daniel Harding and the Wiener Philharmoniker for two landmark concertos of the Austro-German repertoire. The expansive Brahms concerto,first performed in 1878 by Joseph Joachim, is a peak of the composer s glowingly warm Romanticism, while the Berg concerto written in 1935, the last year of Berg s life, and dedicated to the memory of Manon Gropius, who had died<br>aged just 19 poignantly blends the atonality of the Second Viennese School with subtle lyricism and, in its second movement, a haunting Bach chorale.<br>In an interview in October 2011, Renaud Capucon expressed his excitement of recording with the Wiener Philharmoniker, stating that it would be, a dream come true! This release is the fruit of those recording sessions, delivering incredible artistic interpretations of these two timeless Violin concertos.