Kamermuziek '23/'24
Dit concert is al geweest. Bekijk hieronder de serie Kamermuziek '23/'24:
- Pianokwartet Corneille, Vassilis Varvaresos, Noé Inui, Daniel Palmizio en Ella van Poucke - 6 april 2024
- Josef Spacek en Dmytro Choni - 13 april 2024
- Julian Steckel en Dmytro Choni - 25 mei 2024
Some of the program:
Mendelssohn - Violin Sonata in F (1838)
Debussy - Violin Sonata
Franck - Violin sonata in A
Maria Milstein and Nathalia Milstein
A final concert as a grand finale. For her last concert as artist in residence, Maria Milstein will bring along one of her closest musical partners: her sister, pianist Nathalia Milstein. Nathalia is the ten year younger musical spitting image of Mary. "Because of our musical upbringing we don't have to explain much to each other; we find each other in playing together," says Maria. And that results in sublime moments. De Volkskrant writes: "They don't have technical limitations. The sisters can feel completely free to play as fast and as soft as they want. The result is breathtaking."
Which one of the three?
In the Edesche Concert Hall the Milstein sisters play French violin sonatas. This choice has everything to do with the Dutch Music Prize, which Maria Milstein received in 2018. Maria says: "You get this prize when you have completed a multi-year trajectory. In that period I studied the famous novel 'In search of the lost time of the French writer Marcel Proust'. In this book a mysterious violin sonata by the invented composer Vinteuil plays a decisive role" Of the French violin sonatas by Ravel, Debussy and Franck played in this concert, Debussy's could just have been Proust's source of inspiration. Maria Milstein talks about Proust: "It moved me how lovingly Proust describes this music, what music does to people. That's why I really wanted to do something with this fictional sonata."
Maria Milstein about what music means to her:
"Music makes me a richer man. My life is about music, but I can't do that without others. It's a wonderful world to be in, sometimes an idealistic world, because you're busy with something you love. Music is something that makes us richer and happier every day."
(Read the interview with Maria Milstein.)
Mendelssohn's Violin Sonata
Opposite the French violin sonatas by Franck, Debussy and Ravel are Maria and Nathalia Mendelssohn's beautiful 1838 Violin Sonata. The fact that we know this violin sonata by Mendelssohn at all is due to the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin played it regularly during his concerts and so it became a repertoire piece. Mendelssohn didn't have his violin sonata published because he said he didn't think it was good enough. Luckily, Menuhin thought otherwise. According to him the 'Adagio' possesses one of the most beautiful melodies Mendelssohn composed.
While composing his Violin Sonata in F, Mendelssohn struggled with a writer's block. Postponement finally came and the work disappeared into the desk drawer. For decades the sonata dulled in shadowy archives, until master violinist Yehudi Menuhin rediscovered it in 1953. Since then this violin sonata belongs to the heart of Mendelssohn's chamber music.
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