Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, recently sought after in Israel by their most prominent orchestras, launches his latest recording with Jerusalem Symphony and conductor Doron Salomon. Felix Mendelssohn’s violin concerto in e, Op. 64 and Niels Gade’s violin concerto in d, Op. 56, whose general familiarity could not be more diverging, nevertheless have common ground in musical design as well as in personal and artistic matters: Gade, a close friend of Mendelssohn, substituted and later succeeded him in the position of Leipzig Gewandhaus chief conductor.
