The program below was presented on April 1st, 2007 at St Peters Presbyterian Church.
THE CONCERT
Schubert, Sonatina a minor D 395 op. 137, 2
Allegro moderato Andante
Menuetto: Allegro
Allegro
Schubert, Sonata A major D 574 op. 162
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Presto
Andantino
Allegro vivace
INTERVAL
Schubert,
Fantasie C major D 934 op. 159
Brahms, Sonata
A major op. 100
Allegro amabile
Andante tranquillo/Vivace
Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante)
PROGRAM NOTES
The works for
violin and piano by Franz Schubert are rarely performed and present some of the
most challenging musical and technical writing for both instruments in the Duo
Sonata literature. The program opens with Schubert’s emotional and turbulent
Sonatina in a minor. The Duo Sonata in A major with its Viennese charm and
bravura reveals Schubert as a master of the virtuosic effect. The third
Schubert work on the program, the Fantasy in C major is a monumental and
eclectic work. Rarely performed and a tower of the classical repertoire, its
romantic and evocative beauty shows Schubert at his best.
The program
concludes with a sunny tribute to Schubert in Brahms’s Sonata in A major
written during Brahms’s summer vacation in Thun in 1886.
THE ARTISTS
GOETZ RICHTER is Chair of
the Strings Department, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
DR JEANELL CARRIGAN is Lecturer in Ensemble
Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium and an ensemble pianist. She has authored
an annotated guide to Australian post-1970 soo piano works.
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