Munich Philharmonic: Glass / Brucknerfeaturing Renaud Capuçon (violin), conducted by Lahav Shani
A pulsating, rhythmically driving orchestral backdrop forms the canvas against which a delicately radiant solo violin stands out. When Philip Glass composed his Violin Concerto in 1987, his thoughts were with his late father, who had admired the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn.
A pulsating, rhythmically driving orchestral backdrop forms the canvas against which a delicately radiant solo violin stands out. When Philip Glass composed his Violin Concerto in 1987, his thoughts were with his late father, who had admired the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn.
So he returned to tradition: to an expressive, late Romantic style, to arpeggios reminiscent of Vivaldi, to soaring melodies over a Baroque passacaglia bass line. Its meditative yet energetic atmosphere makes the violin concerto one of Glass’s most popular works.
The art of slow development and barely perceptible transitions was already apparent in Anton Bruckner’s style. His Symphony in E-flat major begins evocatively, almost emblematically, with an otherworldly horn theme set against a mystical string texture – an opening that had a lasting influence on the understanding of “Romanticism” in music.
With
- Conductor: Lahav Shani
- Violin: Renaud Capuçon
- Munich Philharmonic
Programme
- Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No 1
- Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E-flat major WAB 104
