Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexander Melnikov
Beethoven integrale
Dates
thu 22 nov 2018 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 30, 25 (standard) / € 25, 20 (under-25s/over-65s) / € 8 (under-19s)
duration
1h 25' interval
at about 8.30 pm
Extra info
Piet van Bockstal . 7.15pm . Blue Bar
Want to make an impression amongst music lovers? A few tips. You could easily postulate that Beethoven is the inventor of the modern cello sonata. You can comfortably illustrate this using his two last Cello Sonatas, Opus 102. Then casually add that these are also Beethoven’s last chamber music works with piano! From 1815 to be precise. Then raise your voice and continue at speed…Compared to the previous Cello Sonatas, these two last ones are rawer and more powerful, and their expressiveness is unparalleled! It’s unbelievable how Beethoven broke all the rules in the Fourth Sonata and provided just two instead of three parts. And in the Fifth Sonata, he became even more daring! Then you pause for a beat to heighten the suspense… The third part is shaped like a fugue! Which already foreshadows the finale of the ‘Hammerklaviersonate’ and the ‘Grosse Fuge’. Your reputation is now cemented in stone.
Works
Sonate voor cello en piano nr 4 in C, opus 102 nr 1
Sonate voor cello en piano nr 5 in D, opus 102 nr 2
12 Variaties in G op een thema uit Händels 'Judas Maccabaeus', WoO45
12 Variaties op Mozarts 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'