Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello concert. Performed 2016 at the Semperoper Dresden. Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden. Features violinist Lisa Batiashvili and cellist Gautier Capuçon. Here is the program:
Brahms Double Concerto for Violin & Cello
Erwin Schulhoff— Zingaresca movement from Duo for Violin and Cello
Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet ‘Fantasy Overture’ (Third Version)
Liszt Les Préludes (Symphonic Poem No. 3)
Directed for TV by Beatrix Conrad. Released 2021, disc has 5.0 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
Rob Cowan calls this a “winner from start to finish” in his review in the April 2021 Gramophone. This praise is probably justified by the musical performance. But if you watch the trailer below, you will see 17 clips, of which 9 (that’s more than half) show symptoms of the dread disease DVDitis. That suggests this is not what you deserve when you pay full price for 86 minutes of music.
Here’s a trailer from C Major:
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