Two historically informed performance favourites blow a spring breeze through AMUZ’s vaulted nave! With Beethoven’s radiant Frühlingssonate and his playful second violin sonata to herald the spring, the duo Amandine Beyer and Kristian Bezuidenhout present the ideal soundtrack to the awakening of nature and a still hesitant sun. Our previous artist-in-residence and her keyboard companion – a former winner of the Musica Antiqua competition in Bruges! – complete the picture with one of Schubert’s finest pieces of chamber music. The tender Sonatina in A Minor, glowing with youthful dauntlessness and lyrical capital, is like the dab of whipped cream on the first strawberry of the season: refreshingly sweet and mouthwateringly delicious – a bite of pure happiness.
Program
L. van Beethoven: Vioolsonate nr. 2 in A, opus 12 nr. 2 | Vioolsonate nr. 5 in F, opus 24 ‘Frühling’ | F. Schubert: Vioolsonate (sonatina) in a, opus 137 nr. 2, D. 385
Performers
Amandine Beyer, violin | Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano (Conrad Graf, 1823)