Violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger from Salzburg, Austria, recently also being sought after in Israel by the most prominent orchestras, is now launching his latest recording with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and conductor Doron Salomon, presenting two romantic violin concertos. Two oeuvres, whose familiarity could not be more diverging: The violin concerto in E minor, Op.64 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the violin concerto in D minor, Op.56 by Niels Wilhelm Gade.

Common ground, however, can be found in the musical design of their works as well as in personal, artistical matters: Gade, besides being his close friend, became Mendelssohn's substitute and later successor in the position of chief conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig.