LEONIDAS KAVAKOS & ENRICO PACE
Date & Time
Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 19:30Toward the end of his life, Franz Schubert composed one of his few great violin works, for a famous virtuoso of his time: the C-major Fantasy was intended for Josef Slavík, known as the “Bohemian Paganini.” Beethoven’s celebrated “Kreutzer” Sonata—named after its dedicatee, Rodolphe Kreutzer, even though he disliked the piece—had initially been written for George Bridgetower, a British violinist who was also the first to perform it—only to fall out with Beethoven shortly afterward. These two works are at... Read full text
Musicians
Kavakos Leonidas | Violin |
Pace Enrico | Piano |
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven | Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major Op. 47 “Kreutzer” |
Richard Dubugnon | La minute exquise |
Richard Dubugnon | Hypnos |
Richard Dubugnon | Retour à Montfort-l'Amaury |
Franz Schubert | Fantasy for Violin and Piano in C major D 934 |