Program
Cezar Franck (1822 – 1890)
Sonato for cello and piano (1886)
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitativo-Fantasia. Ben moderato — Molto lento
Allegretto poco mosso
performers:
Alexey Zhilin, cello
Nikolay Mazhara, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Trio for piano, violin and cello, М. 67 (1914)
Modéré
Pantoum. Assez vif
Passacaille. Très large
Final. Animé
performers:
Olga Volkova, violin
Alexey Zhilin, cello
Nikolay Mazhara, piano
Details
The soloists of the musicAeterna orchestra will present two outstanding chamber compositions of the late Romanticism and Impressionism periods.
The sonata by Cesar Frank, originally written for violin and piano as a wedding gift to the Belgian virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe, became one of the composer’s most performed works over the following century and a half.
Maurice Ravel’s trio, begun on the eve of the World War I, and completed hastily right before he was sent to the army, concludes a significant period in the composer’s work. It was in the Trio that the composer’s connection with Basque folklore became tangible for the first time.