Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Beethoven — With Gautier Capuçon

Verbier Festival 2012

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Cast

Gautier Capuçon — Cellist

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

Gábor Takács-Nagy — Conductor

Program notes

Join Gautier Capuçon and the young musicians of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under the baton of their music director Gábor Takács-Nagy!

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!

Photo: © Aline Paley

A closer look: featured composers

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Further listening: featured works

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)

Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33

Camille Saint-Saëns (Composer)

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