Emilio Percan - Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 & Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 (2017)

Tracklist
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01. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: I. Allegro non troppo
02. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio
03. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace
04. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: I. Allegro con brio
05. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: II. Andante
06. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto
07. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: IV. Allegro-Un poco sostenuto


With his Violin Concerto Brahms was often accused of having embedded the solo violin too deeply within the orchestra. When looking at his two piano concertos, his intention seems to have been rather to write symphonic concerts as virtuoso solo pieces with orchestral accompaniment. “Because of the dialogues in the orchestra between violins and wind instruments and the accompanying figures of the solo violins, the concert seems to me rather like a piece of chamber music”, tells us Emilio Percan and decided to record the Violin Concerto without a conductor. The matter of instrumentation is crucial in this context. Example for Percan is the Meininger Hofkapelle, which premiered many of Brahms’ pieces and played with almost half of the violins than other orchestras of the time (and of today!). Brahms, however, had an exact idea of how the orchestral arrangement should look like for his pieces. For the performance of one of his symphonies in Boston, he was to sketch the desired setup and made a drawing which was the model for the present recording. The result is a completely new listening experience which brings both the Violin Concerto and the Third Symphony closer to chamber music, thereby allowing hitherto unknown aspects of the music to arise.

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