Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Renaud Capuçon plays Mozart

About the Event

Manfred Honeck leads the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in Tchaikovsky's dramatic and melodic Fifth Symphony. French violinist Renaud Capuçon, once the high‐profile concertmaster of this great orchestra, solos in Mozart's Third Violin Concerto.

Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky
The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, founded in 1986 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado, is among the world's leading youth orchestras. Every year, the best European musicians up to age 26 are selected for a summer tour of prestigious concert halls and festivals. This summer, under the direction of the renowned Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, the orchestra will play Tchaikovsky's overwhelming Fifth Symphony. A work full of drama and melancholy, with a magisterial finale.

Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3
At one time Renaud Capuçon himself was concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, at the invitation of initiator Claudio Abbado. A masterstroke by maestro Abbado, as it turned out to be the start of a flashy career. The previous time Capuçon played Mozart in The Concertgebouw was with his own Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, in a double role as conductor and soloist. This time he focuses entirely on his violin playing, in Mozart's graceful and lively Third Violin Concerto.