Festival Brahms (2/2) by Brahms, Dt. 16 Maig 2023, De (2023/2023), Director musical Philipp von Steinaecker, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

He plays the violin, she the cello. They are brother and sister, virtuosos, and longtime accomplices of Lars Vogt, both on record and on stage. Enough to unite their musical forces for two evenings devoted to a gentle and colossal figure of romanticism, Johannes Brahms. Two peaks of Viennese romanticism, but also two works so complex that they are only accessible to the most virtuoso of performers... This is the program that Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt have devised for this second evening devoted to Brahms, where the mastery feeds on an intimate complicity with the composer, fed over the scenes and the years. The first will compete once again with the Violin Concerto , of which he has become, over the concerts, an enlightened expert. The other will tackle, played/directed, the Piano Concerto No. 2 , which Brahms created himself in Budapest, before performing it in the greatest European capitals. A success that has never been denied since 1881…