Violin and Piano Recital: Capucon, Renaud / Pires, Maria Joao - BEETHOVEN, L. van / MOZART, W.A. (Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad)
Soloist:
Capucon, Renaud
Soloist:
Pires, Maria Joao
Composer:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Composer:
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Venue: Saanen Church, Gstaad
Date of Concert: 03-02-2022
Playing Time: 01:10:19
Television Director:
Boula, Christophe
Catalogue Number: EuroArts6916
The 22nd edition of the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad hosted the great Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires and French violin virtuoso Renaud Capucon.
They performed a programme celebrating the sonata, keystone of the Classical era, beginning with Mozart's poignant Violin Sonata No. 21 written in 1778 while the composer was in Paris grieving the death of his mother, this moving sonata is Mozart's only instrumental work in the plaintive key of E Minor. Next up is another of Mozart's violin sonatas, composed three years later: Violin Sonata No. 27, written in the lighter tonality of G Major but suffused nonetheless with an air of contemplative solemnity, one of the Salzburg-born genius's finest works.
The two virtuosos bring their program to a close with the Spring, Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major by Beethoven, a thoroughly enchanting early work (1801) whose dazzling clarity endears first-time listeners as easily as those who already know and love it.
