Renaud Capuçon
Mozart: The Violin Concertos
Album - Classical, Music, Violin, High Classical, Orchestral
Mozart was an excellent violinist, and was still a teenager when he wrote these five violin concertos for his personal use in concerts. The French violinist Renaud Capuçon performs them as Mozart himself would have done, with a moderately sized orchestra and no conductor. The results are wonderfully relaxed and intimate, a feast of sophisticated, collegial musicmaking.
The unassuming finale of Concerto No. 2 is charming and affable in Capuçon’s affectionate interpretation, and he lends elegance and decorum to No. 5’s concluding “Rondeau,” a movement whose playful sense of humor is never overstated. In slow movements Capuçon is equally effective, his sweet, seductive tone weaving a particular poetry in Concerto No. 3’s “Adagio.”
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra lends refined support throughout, adding further to the attractions of these satisfyingly warm, urbane performances.
Mozart: The Violin Concertos
Renaud Capuçon
Mozart was an excellent violinist, and was still a teenager when he wrote these five violin concertos for his personal use in concerts. The French violinist Renaud Capuçon performs them as Mozart himself would have done, with a moderately sized orchestra and no conductor. The results are wonderfully relaxed and intimate, a feast of sophisticated, collegial musicmaking.
The unassuming finale of Concerto No. 2 is charming and affable in Capuçon’s affectionate interpretation, and he lends elegance and decorum to No. 5’s concluding “Rondeau,” a movement whose playful sense of humor is never overstated. In slow movements Capuçon is equally effective, his sweet, seductive tone weaving a particular poetry in Concerto No. 3’s “Adagio.”
The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra lends refined support throughout, adding further to the attractions of these satisfyingly warm, urbane performances.
