Johannes Brahms Double Concerto

PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY JOHANNES BRAHMS ROMEO AND JULIET FRANZ LISZT DOUBLE CONCERTO LES PRÉLUDES

Lisa Batiashvili Gautier Capuçon Staatskapelle Dresden Christian Thielemann Semperoper Dresden LISA BATIASHVILI GAUTIER CAPUÇON STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN

JOHANNES BRAHMS Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, op. 102

PETER I. TCHAIKOVSKY “Romeo and Juliet”, Fantasy Overture (3rd Version, 1880) Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili, French cellist Gautier Capuçon, FRANZ LISZT Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden present a “Les Préludes”, sophisticated concert programme about love and death from the th Symphonic Poem No. 3 perspective of three leading 19 century composers: Johannes Brahms, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky and Franz Liszt.

The stages of life can be viewed as preludes to the melody of death, Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden as Liszt proposes in his Symphonic Poem Les Préludes. It is only at the very end that the inadequacies of life are resolved. This is also the Violin Lisa Batiashvili tragedy behind the impossible love of Romeo and Juliet in Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture. In the very jaws of death, Eros enjoys his strongest Violoncello Gautier Capuçon impulse, one that transcends time. What results is the desire for the Conductor Christian Thielemann epic, the heroic, which in Brahms’s final orchestral work, the Double Concerto, achieves a certain consummation. Produced by Salve TV Video Director Beatrix Conrad Lisa Bathiashvili is playing her Guarneri “with tenderness and devotion” (Der Neue Merker). Her lyrical, velevety performance is contrasted by Capuçon’s more throaty and vibrating tone: “The two ways of playing Length: 86' seem to collide sometimes but to match brilliantly at the same time”. Cat. no. A 055 50602 0000 Christian Tielemann and his Staatskapelle “are mixing different colours as if they were putting emeralds and rubies on precious metal, creating huge sonority but always retaining clarity in it.” (Dresdner Neueste A production of UNITEL Nachrichten). in cooperation with Semperoper Dresden Brahms’s Double Concerto forms part of Christian Thielemann’s extensive Brahms cycle, containing symphonies and solo concertos performed to frenetic acclaim not only in Dresden but also in Tokyo.

Tel. +49.30.30306464 [email protected]

Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany · Tel. +49.89.673469-630 · [email protected] www.unitel.de