ABOUT THE CONCERT

Word by Kristian Winther:

For this program – contrary to my own general philosophy of being anti-‘curation’, or in other words, of being against the modern norm of taking multiple historical works of genius and stringing them together in such a way as to unnecessarily impose the curator’s own artistic ‘vision’ of a particular theme or connection – Konstantin and I have created a first half where seemingly disparate works by Kurtág, Kopatchinskaja, Webern, Messiaen, Ysaÿe, and Debussy are closely bonded to one another, but in an intangible, unspoken, dream-like manner which elaboration might only cause to evaporate, and which while creating an invisible, unifying link between works, highlights the individuality of each composer. Rather than continuing this ‘curation’, the second half is of opposing personality, continuing on from the end of the first where the denouement of Messiaen’s piece bursts the thematic bubble, with Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss’ by turns lyrical and heroic works sweeping us through rugged reality.

PROGRAM

György Kurtág
Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op.14e 

Patricia Kopatchinskaja 
UniSolo 

Eugène Ysaÿe
Rêve d’enfant, Op.14 

Claude Debussy
Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano, L.140

Anton Webern
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.7

Olivier Messiaen
Theme and Variations

Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op.22

Richard Strauss
Violin Sonata in E flat, Op.18