Jakub Hrůša conducts Brahms – with Renaud Capuçon & Julia Hagen

Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony are guests at the Rheingau Music Festival for a programme comprising Brahms's two final orchestra masterpieces: the grandly impassioned Symphony No. 4 and the Double Concerto, composed as a peace offering for Brahms's estranged friend Joseph Joachim. And Joachim was indeed the violin soloist – with Brahms conducting – in the work's first performances in 1887. Here the soloists in this remarkable work are violinist Renaud Capuçon and cellist Julia Hagen, while Hrůša and his orchestra have a chance to shine in the symphony – a work, completed two years earlier, in which Brahms marries lyricism and drama to shattering effect, not least into the powerful passacaglia finale.