Bruce Liu
Piano
SUN OCT 18 3PM
Groton Hill Music Center
Gil Shaham & Akira Eguchi
violin & piano
Groton Hill Music Center
One of the great recital partnerships of our time, violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi bring musical intelligence and irresistible chemistry to every performance. Trusting each other to go where the music takes them, Shaham and Eguchi make music with sweep, drive, and inner life.
In a balance honed over decades, this duo comes together with elegance and precision. Shaham's characteristically warm playing glows with passion. Eguchi—lyrical and propulsive by turn—brings a virtuosic sense of momentum and energy that draws you ever more deeply into the music.
Acclaimed on stages around the world, Shaham and Eguchi make extraordinary technical mastery appear effortless. Together, they transform each performance into something that feels less like a display and more like a shared offering.
“A virtuoso and a player of deeply intense sincerity—one of today's pre-eminent violinists.”
The New York Times
Program Details
No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30, No. 1
Allegro
Adagio molto espressivo
Allegretto con variazioni
No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2
Allegro con brio
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo. Allegro - Trio
Finale. Allegro
No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3
Allegro assai
Tempo di Minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
Allegro vivace
There will be no intermission in this program, which will run 60-75 minutes.
Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas, Op. 30 are three compositions that mark the beginning of the composer's “heroic” middle period. Completed in 1802 and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, the sonatas were written during one of the most tumultuous years of Beethoven’s life. Around this time, he penned the now-famous Heiligenstadt Testament, a poignant letter revealing his despair over his worsening hearing loss. Though it reads like a farewell, the letter ends with a vow to persevere in the service of art. That inner struggle—between hopelessness and determination—finds voice in the music as Beethoven begins to push the familiar classical forms to new expressive ends.
This note is excerpted from Leaf Music, an independent recording label based in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Nashville, Tennessee.
No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30, No. 1
Allegro
Adagio molto espressivo
Allegretto con variazioni
No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2
Allegro con brio
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo. Allegro - Trio
Finale. Allegro
No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3
Allegro assai
Tempo di Minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
Allegro vivace
There will be no intermission in this program, which will run 60-75 minutes.
Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas, Op. 30 are three compositions that mark the beginning of the composer's “heroic” middle period. Completed in 1802 and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, the sonatas were written during one of the most tumultuous years of Beethoven’s life. Around this time, he penned the now-famous Heiligenstadt Testament, a poignant letter revealing his despair over his worsening hearing loss. Though it reads like a farewell, the letter ends with a vow to persevere in the service of art. That inner struggle—between hopelessness and determination—finds voice in the music as Beethoven begins to push the familiar classical forms to new expressive ends.
This note is excerpted from Leaf Music, an independent recording label based in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Nashville, Tennessee.
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