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Concerts
Record date : 27 July 2012
Publish date : 05 January 2021
Programme
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, KV. 183
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
PIOTR ILITCH TCHAÏKOVSKI
Andante Cantabile
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
- Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
- Gábor Takács-Nagy conductor
- Gautier Capuçon cello
Conducted by its music director Gábor Takács-Nagy, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra opens the concert with a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 25, a work woven into modern pop culture by its use advertisements and in Milos Forman’s film Amadeus. They finish with Beethoven’s equally famous Symphony No. 5.
Gautier Capuçon joins Takács-Nagy and the young musicians on stage for one of the most celebrated concertos ever written for his instruments: Camille Saint-Saëns’s turbulent and lyrical Cello Concerto. As an encore, Capuçon performs an transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Andante cantabile arranged for cello and orchestra: a truly special moment!