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Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Harding

Renaud Capuçon - Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris - Elgar, Schumann, Brahms

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Symphonic Concert

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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

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Duration: about 1h40 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

Edward Elgar

Concerto pour violon

Intermission

Robert Schumann

Nachtlied

Johannes Brahms

Schicksalslied

Orchestre de Paris

Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris

Daniel Harding, conducting

Renaud Capuçon, violin

Elgar’s Violin Concerto unfolds its lyricism and sensuality, all the while preserving its original enigma, the composer having revealed that there was a soul enshrined within it… Two choral Lieder, also shrouded in mystery, further heighten the mystique.

The oracular mysteries of the ‘romantic night’ hover over the three choral Lieder gathered here: the sonic fabric literally palpitates in Schumann’s Nachtlied, hymn to night, to a text by Hebbel; Brahms’s Schicksalslied in three movements, sometimes called his ‘Little Requiem’, is a marvel of melodic charm and harmonic colours.

In Elgar’s expansive Violin Concerto, Renaud Capuçon’s bow can only add to the general aura of mystery. A work at once lyrical and rhapsodic, melancholy, sensual and tempestuous, it did indeed cultivate an enigmatic reputation, as the composer had noted on the score, in Spanish, a dedication: ‘Herein is enshrined the soul of…’

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