Abbey Road Concerto

Guy Braunstein, who was concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker for nearly fifteen years, has an international career as a soloist, conductor and composer. His lifelong passion for the music of the Beatles prompted him to compose this suite for violin and orchestra, which contains all the major hits by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison and is performed here with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège under their long-time musical partner, Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra. This large-scale rhapsody, based on a dozen Beatles numbers, is a tribute to these great musicians who were strongly influenced by classical and romantic composers. This first recording is supplemented with two English works for violin and orchestra, "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the rarely performed violin concerto by Frederick Delius, which - like many Beatles hits - was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London!