Mozart - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 - Erato: 5021122 - CD

The First Concerto's opening tutti sets the overall tone of this disc with bright and light phrasing. Renaud Capuçon's… vibrato is tight, never becoming sickly, and he spins an elegantly effortless... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Apr 2009
Catalogue No: 5021122
Label: Erato
Length: 72 minutes

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Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No.1 K.207 in B flat major: I. Allegro moderato

Work length6:46

Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

Mozart: Violin Concerto No.1 K.207 in B flat major: II. Adagio

Work length8:05

Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

Mozart: Violin Concerto No.1 in B-Flat Major, K. 207: III. Presto

Work length5:25

Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

Mozart: Violin Concerto No.3 K.206 in G major

Work length22:34

Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

I. Allegro

Track length8:27

II. Adagio

Track length8:02

III. Rondeau. Allegro

Track length6:05

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra K.364 in E flat major: I. Allegro maestoso

Work length12:59

Antoine Tamestit (viola), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra in E-Flat Major, K. 364 : II. Andante

Work length10:43

Antoine Tamestit (viola), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra K.364 in E flat major: III. Presto

Work length6:10

Antoine Tamestit (viola), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Louis Langrée

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“Mozart's violin concertos are harder to play than they sound; the challenge lies in making them sound effortless without rendering them facile. Capuçon, with his sweet-toned but deceptively powerful playing negotiated this balance successfully. His playing was brilliant in the bravura passages without sounding like showmanship, while the slow movements, particularly of the G major Third Concerto, were spun out with unerring lyricism.” The Guardian

The violinist Renaud Capuçon has a substantial catalogue on Virgin Classics, but this is only the second CD to focus on him in solo concertos – the first, the Mendelssohn and Schumann concertos was released in 2004. That being said, he has recorded L’arbre des songes, a de facto concerto, for a disc of works by the contemporary composer Dutilleux, and has also collaborated with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for EMI Classics, and, back on Virgin Classics, with his brother, Gautier in Brahms’ Double Concerto.

This new release sees him in two of Mozart’s solo concertos and the Sinfonia concertante with viola-player Antoine Tamestit, another outstanding French instrumentalist of the younger generation. (Interestingly, Renaud has on occasion performed the Sinfonia concertante with his brother in an arrangement for violin and cello.) Another Frenchman conducts the programme, Louis Langrée, who has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York since 2002.

“Working with Louis Langrée is a particular privilege,” says Renaud. “His Mozart has honesty, purity and joie de vivre ... grace, in fact. He makes a marvellous guide for me, since I am less familiar than he is with Mozart. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra guides me too ... The players’ finesse of articulation and their colours are drawn from chamber music ... This simplicity of approach is essential for me.”

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August 2009

The First Concerto's opening tutti sets the overall tone of this disc with bright and light phrasing. Renaud Capuçon's… vibrato is tight, never becoming sickly, and he spins an elegantly effortless line in the slow movement, with a wide variety of tone colour.

21st May 2009

His performance here is lithe, graceful and refined, capturing vivacious humour with luminous upper-stringed sparkle, and colouring the slower movements with warm, musical poetry...There is real artistic synergy here: each matches the others gentle poise and warmth, with the velvety depth of the viola setting off the sweet descant of the violin.

July 2009

These musicians have all the hallmarks of excellence and it's impossible not to be drawn to their empathy with the rhythmic vivacity and finer sensibilities of the music.

17th April 2009

Capuçon is partnered by the viola player Antoine Tamestit, who perfectly complements his unfailingly musical phrasing without ever slavishly copying it. A fine achievement.

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