Our concert puts the violin in the spotlight and combines the pleasures of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the concertos of Joseph Boulogne de Saint-George. Born in 1745 in Guadeloupe, this romantic character was led to frequent the battlefields and cotton plantations as well as the most closed circles of Parisian music. A violinist, he composed a lot for his instrument, and his works are said to have seduced the young Mozart. Renaud Capuçon leads the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 31st October, 1pm-4pm