Warm, romantic Barber and icy, strange Sibelius – these two 20th-century concertos could seem poles apart, but here find common ground. Renaud Capuçon’s playing is as big-boned and golden-toned as ever, so it’s no surprise that the Sibelius moves towards the Barber, rather than the other way round.

Capuçon makes the start of the Sibelius a yearning oration, each note carefully placed, with the occasional little slide. It’s a meaty interpretation that’s matched by Daniel Harding’s conducting: the big moments thrillingly punchy, the brass scything around the orchestra. The only bit that doesn’t really work is early in the finale, when the violin scurries off into a virtuosic rollercoaster: Capuçon’s playing feels a little too weighty for this episode of skittishness to make sense.

The Barber is a more obvious fit for Capuçon’s style, and while even he can’t disguise the fact that the perpetual-motion finale sounds like a study, he’s on song in the long first movement and the darker, more angular second. Again, Harding and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande are with him all the way, the wind soloists shining, but in a carefully calibrated way such that none gets to eclipse the Hollywood glamour of Capuçon’s sound.

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