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Compact Disc 31 Mar 2014
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Other participants: Renaud Capuçon, Celine Frisch, Peteris Vasks, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Renaud Capuçon's first recording as both soloist and conductor is also his first recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He has chosen to juxtapose Bach's violin concertos in A minor and E major with a haunting concerto written more than 350 years later: Tala gaisma (Distant Light) by contemporary Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. This programme is as intriguing as it is unexpected. Capuçon - who points out that the Bach A minor was the first concerto he ever played - had considered the more conventional complement of Bach's Double Violin Concerto; but he settled on Distant Light, a work which, as he says, "I fell in love with as soon as I discovered it". He decided to "put together two different worlds, Bach's and Vask's ... Their music does, however share a purity ... it rises up from a source. When you play it, you don't get tired ... It is healing music, feeding you and giving you energy." It is perhaps no coincidence that Peteris Vasks has himself said: "My intention is to provide food for the soul and this is what I preach in my works ... Most people today no longer possess beliefs, love and ideals. The spiritual dimension has been lost." Vasks was born in 1946, a year before his fellow Latvian, Gidon Kremer, the dedicatee of Distant Light, which was first heard in 1997 at the Salzburg Festival, performed by Kremer and his then newly-founded ensemble Kremerata Baltica, comprising young players from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
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