Brahms: Double Concerto Op. 102 / Clarinet Quintet Op. 115

"Gautier Capuçon launches into the opening cello solo with a rhapsodic freedom and expressive abandon that seems to sweep all before it. The performance is outstanding" The Guardian

"Here is a Double Concerto to listen to again and again. Not least because it is rather unusual. The Capuçon brothers are accomplished chamber musicians and they often dig into this music as though in a chamber concert, taking time to explore, passing ideas between themselves. It doesn't displace the recent Fischer/Müller-Schott, but sits alongside." - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Feb 2008

"There's something totally compelling about this performance of the Double Concerto from the first few bars, when Gautier Capuçon launches into the opening cello solo with a rhapsodic freedom and expressive abandon that seems to sweep all before it, gathering first his brother Renaud's violin playing and then the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchestra and conductor Myung-Whun Chung into the same unstoppable flood of lyricism. The slow movement is an ardent, ecstatic song, the finale a joyous, folksy celebration, with the intensely musical Capuçons squeezing every drop of expressiveness out of each phrase. That sense of heightened emotion runs through the Clarinet Quintet, too, where what is conventionally presented as autumnal wistfulness - the senior composer looking back in calm contemplation - acquires an edge of unease, as if not all those memories have lost their sting. The performance is outstanding; this is all exceptional Brahms playing." ***** (5 stars out of 5) GUARDIAN.CO.UK