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 Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra with conductor Doron Salomon, presenting two violin concertos of romanticism. 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 grounds, 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 Mendelssohns substitute and later successor in the position of chief conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig.