Elgar: Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata - Renaud Capucon - Music - PLG UK CLASSICS - 0190295112820 - March 5, 2021
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Elgar: Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata

Renaud Capucon

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Elgar: Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata

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."

As both Renaud Capuçon and Sir Simon Rattle point out, it is not a piece that has been favoured by French violinists. Perhaps, despite the worldwide currency of Elgar's cello concerto and Enigma Variations, this arises from some lingering perception of the composer's music as exclusively and mysteriously 'English'.

This is Capuçon's first recording with 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 a long and historic association: the LSO, conducted by Elgar, accompanied Fritz Kreisler in the premiere of the violin concerto in 1910, and the composer became the orchestra's Principal Conductor the following year.

Paired with the concerto on this album is Elgar's 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.


LONDON S. O./SIMON RATTLE/STEPHEN HOUGH

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Composer Elgar
Released March 5, 2021
EAN/UPC 0190295112820
Label PLG UK CLASSICS 190295112820
Genre Classical     Concerto
Dimensions 123 × 139 × 8 mm   ·   81 g
Conductor Simon Rattle
Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra
Soloist Stephen Hough

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