Lahav Shani conducts Brahms and Strauss — With Alexandre Kantorow, Alisa Weilerstein, and Michael Barenboim

Celebrated maestro Lahav Shani leads the Verbier Festival Orchestra and world-class soloists in two masterpieces of the Romantic era. Piano virtuoso Alexandre Kantorow opens the concert with Brahms’s Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, a monumental four-movement composition enchanting audiences from the opening call of the horn to the orchestral crescendo of the finale. World-class cellist Alisa Weilerstein and violist superstar Michael Barenboim then perform Strauss’s Don Quixote, “Fantastic variations on a theme of chivalric character”—a legendary tone poem based on Cervantes’ eponymous novel.

Alisa Weilerstein appears courtesy of Pentatone.
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