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CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Polina Osetinskaya, Piano

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 8 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
His “technical wizardry is accompanied by a big dose of heart,” making him “one of the most brilliant violinists you’ll ever hear” (The Washington Post). Maxim Vengerov returns to Carnegie Hall for a program that features one of Mozart’s finest sonatas and a wonderfully inventive fantasy by Schubert. There’s also R. Strauss’s melodically splendid Violin Sonata and Ravel’s Tzigane, a virtuoso showpiece imbued with the gypsy spirit.

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Performers

Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Polina Osetinskaya, Piano

Program

MOZART Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454

SCHUBERT Fantasy in C Major, D. 934

R. STRAUSS Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18

RAVEL Tzigane


Encores:

BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor (trans. Joseph Joachim)

KREISLER “Liebesleid” from Old Viennese Melodies

KREISLER "Liebesfreud" from Old Viennese Melodies

MASSENET Meditation from Thaïs

Event Duration

The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
In honor of the centenary of his birth, Carnegie Hall’s 2019–2020 season is dedicated to the memory of Isaac Stern in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to Carnegie Hall, arts advocacy, and the field of music.

At a Glance

MOZART  Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454

Most of Mozart’s some three dozen sonatas for violin and piano were designed to showcase his virtuosity at the keyboard and cast the violin in a decidedly subservient role. But in 1784, Mozart met his match in the brilliant Italian violinist Regina Strinasacchi, who had recently arrived in Vienna; it was her exceptional artistry that inspired him to write the B-flat–Major Sonata.

 

SCHUBERT  Fantasy in C Major, D. 934

Schubert’s richly melodious Fantasy is recognized as a masterpiece today, but it received mixed reviews at its premiere in 1828. One newspaper tartly observed that the lengthy piece “occupied rather too much of the time a Viennese is prepared to devote to pleasures of the mind.”

 

R. STRAUSS  Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18

Written in 1887, when Strauss was just 23 years old, the Sonata in E-flat Major contains the seeds of the musical genius that would soon bear fruit in his pathbreaking symphonic tone poems and operas. Op. 18 was his last piece of abstract chamber music; virtually all of his later instrumental works would be inspired by literary or philosophical programs.

 

RAVEL  Tzigane

Ravel was drawn to the colorful, improvisatory idiom of Hungarian gypsy violinists like Belá Radics, whose playing Debussy described as expressing “the melancholy confidence of a heart that suffers, or laughs, almost in the same instant.” Ravel’s own evocation of the style hongrois (“Hungarian style”) cast a similar spell when Jelly d’Arányi premiered his rhapsody Tzigane in London in 1924.

Bios

Maxim Vengerov

Universally hailed as one of the world’s finest musicians, Grammy Award winner Maxim Vengerov enjoys international acclaim as a conductor and in-demand soloist. Born in 1974, he began  ...

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Polina Osetinskaya

Internationally acclaimed pianist Polina Osetinskaya began her career at the age of five and was soon acclaimed as a wunderkind in the former Soviet Union at the same time as Maxim ...

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