Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Polina Osetinskaya, Piano
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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.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.