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Lisa Batiashvili, Gautier Capuçon ⬩ Czech Philharmonic
The pairing of Lisa Batiashvili and Gautier Capuçon in Brahms’s Double Concerto is a dream come true for both musicians and audiences.
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102, for violin, cello and orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
Performers
Lisa Batiashvili
violin
Gautier Capuçon
cello
Semyon Bychkov
conductor
Czech Philharmonic
The pairing of Lisa Batiashvili and Gautier Capuçon in Brahms’s Double Concerto is a dream come true for both musicians and audiences. Seldom do two of the world’s very greatest artists join forces rather than playing solo concertos, instead playing a work together that demands the same degree of instrumental virtuosity along with the experience of a chamber music players. Moreover, Lisa Batiashvili and Gautier Capuçon have played Brahms’s Double Concerto together many times, and their appearance at the Rudolfinum with the Czech Philharmonic will be recorded and released by the DECCA label.
Brahms dedicated his Double Concerto to his friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, as a sign of the renewal of their lifelong friendship, which had been disrupted by Joachim’s divorce when Brahms took sides with Joachim’s wife Amalie. For the concerto’s dedication, Brahms wrote the sentence: “To him, for whom it was written”. So that there could be no doubt about who was meant, he used the musical motif A-E-F, a permutation of the anagram of Joachim’s personal motto F-A-E: Frei aber einsam – Free but Lonesome.
Rudolfinum — Dvorak Hall
How to buy tickets
Buy onlineFor online shopping you will be redirected to the website of the Czech Philharmonic.
Personally at the Rudolfinum cash deskInformation not only about available seats will be provided by the customer service of the Czech Philharmonic.