Archive 2010
FRI 17. SEP 2010, 8 p.m.
Beethoven: Violin Sonata Cycle I
World premiere
- Renaud Capuçon (Violin)
- Frank Braley (Piano)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in D major op. 12/1
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in A major op. 12/2
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 in E flat major op. 12/3
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 4 in A minor op. 23
- Jörg Widmann: Sommersonate for violin and piano (Uraufführung, Auftragswerk des Beethovenfestes Bonn)
Utopian Form
The composer Jörg Widmann, born in Munich in 1973, deliberately chose the standard sonata form for his first piece for violin and piano, but at the same time he questions the extent to which the sonata can survive as a musical form in this age of atonality. While Beethoven already proved in his four very early violin sonatas that he was a true master of the sonata form and was able to ingeniously enrich it with new aspects such as the equality of the two musicians, Widmann re-confronts this form from scratch and dares to undertake the utopian idea of composing a sonata in the 21st century.
Additional Information:
7.30 p.m.
Concert Introduction »All Ears for Half«
