Joshua Bell © Shervin Lainez
Joshua Bell / Shai Wosner
Sunday
26
January
2025
19:30 – ca. 21:15
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Joshua Bell, Violine
Shai Wosner, Klavier
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonate e-moll K 300c für Violine und Klavier (1778)
Sonatensatz c-moll K 385f »Fantasie« (Fragment) (1782)
Franz Schubert
Fantasie C-Dur D 934 für Violine und Klavier (1827)
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Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonate-Ballade op. 27/3 für Violine solo (1924)
Gabriel Fauré
Sonate Nr. 1 A-Dur op. 13 für Violine und Klavier (1875–1876)
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Sample of talent
In 1821, Carl Friedrich Zelter visited his friend Goethe in Weimar. He traveled there with the 12-year-old Felix Mendelssohn, whose extraordinary talent he wanted to showcase. Goethe put the young musician to the test and had him sight-read from a Mozart autograph in his possession containing the unfinished Fantasia in C minor. This piece, long known in an arrangement for piano by Maximilian Stadler, is originally a composition for violin and piano, which star violinist Joshua Bell and Shai Wosner have placed on the program of their concert. Mozart's Sonata in E minor and works from the 19th and early 20th centuries will also be performed: Franz Schubert's Fantasy in C major D 934, which the latter composed for the »Bohemian Paganini« Josef Slavík, and Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata-Ballade op. 27/3 for solo violin, dedicated to the violinist and composer George Enescu. The program ends with Gabriel Fauré's first violin sonata: »This sonata has everything that can seduce: Novelty of forms, peculiarity of modulations, curious sounds, a wholly unpredictable use of rhythms; and over all this there is a magic which envelops the whole work and which leads the broad mass of ordinary listeners to accept unsuspected daring as the most natural thing in the world«, said fellow composer Camille Saint-Saëns.