Elsa Grether / Mathias Weber

• Classical Music

Three great works of chamber music that refer to the same basic note »A«. But what different worlds they come from in terms of character and form: Schumann’s Sonata in A minor, Franck’s in A major and Beethoven’s monumental Opus 47 – the »Kreutzer Sonata« in A minor and A major. The sensational duo of internationally acclaimed artists, French violinist Elsa Grether and Hamburg Érard pianist Mathias Weber, captivates with its spirited, gripping, sensual and sensitive playing, in which both voices display equal flights of virtuosity as well as delicately merging magical passages. The Érard concert grand piano by César Franck from 1863, on which a breathtaking clarity and transparency of sound can be produced thanks to its parallel sides, lends the interpretation of these magnificent works a historical dimension.

PERFORMERS

Elsa Grether violin

Mathias Weber piano

PROGRAM

Robert Schumann
Sonate Nr. 1 a-Moll op. 105 für Violine und Klavier

César Franck
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, FWV 8

- Interval -

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonate für Violine und Klavier A-Dur op. 47 »Kreutzer-Sonate«