Renaud CapuÇon, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, Stephen Hough - Elgar: Violin concerto - Violin Sonata

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Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 0190295112820
Release Date: 5th March 2021
Genre: Classical

Recording dates and venue: Concerto: September 18th and 19th, 2020 - LSO St Luke's, Old Street, London. Sonata: September 16th, 2020 - St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London.

Elgar’s violin concerto – distinctively passionate and nostalgic – is one of the great late-Romantic concertos. “It is a huge piece,” says Renaud Capuçon “both in terms of its length and its romantic and noble nature.” This is Capuçon’s first recording with Sir Simon Rattle, here conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. When Rattle chose Elgar’s Enigma Variations for his inaugural concert as the LSO’s music director in 2017, he was celebrating the close historic links between the composer and the orchestra. Not only did the LSO accompany Fritz Kreisler in the premiere of the violin concerto in 1910, Elgar became its Principal Conductor the following year. Paired with the concerto on this album is his violin sonata, first performed in 1919. Renaud Capuçon, who calls the sonata “a work of nobility and tenderness”, is joined by one of the leading British pianists of today, Stephen Hough.

TRACKLIST – Elgar: Violin Concerto – Violin Sonata

1-3: Violin concerto in B minor, Op.61

1. I - Allegro
2. II - Andante
3. III - Allegro molto

4-6: Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.82

4. I - Allegro
5. II- Romance (Andante)
6. III- Allegro, non troppo

Artists:
Renaud Capuçon, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano (4-6)