This album was recorded in memory of Lars Vogt, a close friend and pianist/conductor, who passed away on September 5, 2022.
Performer Biography
Tanja Tetzlaff plays a cello by Giovanni Baptista Guadagnini from 1776 and holds a professorship in cello at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Compositional Technique
In the Brahms Double Concerto, the cello introduces all thematic material, a compositional choice made because the brighter violin can be heard better when it enters second.
Composer Biography
Brahms and Dvořák were close friends, admired each other, and were mutually influential as symphonists.
Compositional Technique
Brahms directly quotes Giovanni Battista Viotti's Violin Concerto No. 22 in his Double Concerto, both in key choice and thematically, to evoke shared memories with Joseph Joachim.
Performer Biography
Christian Tetzlaff plays a violin made by German violin maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy.
Composition History
Johannes Brahms's Double Concerto was written as an "olive branch" to mend his friendship with violinist Joseph Joachim after a falling out.
