Published: 14 June 2010
Category: Artists

Renaud Capuçon comes to London to work with the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding for a performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto on 1 July at the Barbican. He will also join the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on 24 June for the Ligeti Violin Concerto, for which he received rave reviews when performing the work with the Berlin Philharmonic and David Robertson on 9 May 2010

“Capuçon pulled off the work in an astonishing manner, technically and performance-wise. The standout was the second movement, moving from solo violin aria to tutti choral at the end in a bizarre ocarina-driven chorus. It was after the third, which ends in a tutti tumult of glissando, that the audience as a whole was visibly stirred, and from that point on they were fully behind the work in rapt attention, a pretty rare event for a 'contemporary' work.”
Musical Criticism

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