In a further tribute to Beethoven in this 250th anniversary year, Daniel Lozakovich’s third album for DG, following his debut Bach and subsequent Tchaikovsky, is devoted to Beethoven’s famous violin concerto.
Lozakovich has been dreaming about recording the Beethoven Violin Concerto since he was eight. He first performed it on stage when he was thirteen, and at fifteen was invited by Valery Gergiev to perform the concerto with him in Moscow. A few short years later, he has reunited with his mentor Gergiev to record the concerto with the Münchener Philharmoniker for DG. The new recording, filmed in December 2019 in Munich’s Gasteig Philharmonie and already available as a visual album, is released today and captures Lozakovich’s close artistic partnership with the Russian conductor.
Lozakovich was clear from the start that this should be a live recording: “There’s a particular magic about a live concert,” he explains. “The audience creates a unique atmosphere, without which, in my opinion, it’s almost impossible to produce a performance that will stand the test of time.”

DVD extras include: Eugene Onegin “In Rehearsal,” and “Backstage at The Met,” a short documentary presented by Beverly Sills, who talks in person to Fleming and Hvorostovsky about the opera and their working relationship.
Introduction by the great Russian dancer Mikhail Barishnikov.

`Gautier Capuçon plays the cello with the control and wisdom of a much older musician. The lightness of his touch and the consistent clarity of his bow strokes are quite admirable in themselves, but when combined with an uncanny sweetness of tone in the higher registers they are breathtaking.' Gramophone

A Frenchman in St Petersburg ... Gautier Capuçon joins Valery Gergiev (making his Virgin Classics debut) and the Mariinsky Orchestra for works by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev These live performances were recorded in St Petersburg on 24th December 2008 when Gautier Capuçon was the guest of Russia's leading maestro - and one of the world's most prominent conductors - the protean Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra.

This is Gergiev's debut on Virgin Classics; Capuçon, of course, is one of the mainstays of the label and this is his third album of solo works with orchestra.

His recording of the Dvoøák and Victor Herbert concertos was released in early 2009. The Sunday Telegraph reported that: "This is not the first coupling of these works, but it is perhaps the most distinguished. The works have much in common and Gautier Capuçon makes the most of the music's melodic appeal. The Dvoøák receives a powerful and intense interpretation with some superb orchestral solos to match the soloist's eloquence," while The Guardian found that, in the Herbert, Capuçon "captures the work's rhapsodic ambitions and the lyrical charm of its slow movement perfectly ... this version just about has it all."

Gautier joined his brother, violinist Renaud for a recording of the Brahms Double Concerto, released in 2007. "There's something totally compelling about this performance of the Double Concerto from the first few bars," wrote The Guardian, "when Gautier Capuçon launches into the opening cello solo with a rhapsodic freedom and expressive abandon that seems to sweep all before it, gathering first his brother Renaud's violin playing and then the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchestra and conductor Myung-Whun Chung into the same unstoppable flood of lyricism."

Tchaikovsky's Mozart-inspired Rococo Variations are a mainstay of the cello repertoire, but Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante features less frequently in concerts and recordings. The work was premiered in 1952 by Mstislav Rostropovich, with the equally legendary pianist Sviatoslav Richter deserting the keyboard for the conductor's baton. Its material is drawn from the composer's earlier cello concerto, written in the 1930s.

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