Brahms: Violin Concerto

LPA

1. I. Allegro non troppo

LPB

1. II. Adagio
2. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace

Renaud Capuçon, the leading French violinist of his generation, joins the British conductor Daniel Harding and the august Wiener Philharmoniker for a landmark concerto of the German repertoire. The expansive Brahms concerto, first performed in 1878 by Joseph Joachim, is a peak of the composer’s glowingly warm Romanticism.

Capuçon has pronounced Brahms one of his favourite composers, “for his serenity and the sense of resurrection that he conveys”.