Faculty Recital

VIENNA CONNECTION

Schubert Kurtag-Schubert Webern-Schubert

Mathias Tacke, Violin & William Koehler, Piano

Not directly related to espionage or spy-games, this musical program nevertheless wants to reveal hidden and not so hidden musical connections. The main points of references are three very different sonatinas (small sonatas), composed in the span of just two months by the 19-year-old Franz Schubert in Vienna in 1816. Almost a century later, another young and Native Viennese composer, Anton Webern, wrote his expressive and highly condensed Four Pieces for Violin and Piano. Yet another half century later, in 1979, György Kurtag, greatly inspired by Schubert and Webern, composed his Three Pezzi for Violin and Piano. These two sets of musical aphorisms (Kurtag and Webern) build dramatic segue ways, magically connecting Schubert with Schubert.

PROGRAM

Sonatina in D-major for Violin and Piano D 384 - Franz Schubert, 1797 - 1828
1. Allegro molto
2. Andante
3. Allegro vivace

Tre Pezzi for Violin and Piano Op. 14e - György Kurtag. *1926

Sonatina in A-minor for Violin and Piano D 305 - Franz Schubert
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante 3. Menuetto: Allegro
4. Allegro

Four Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 7 - Anton Webern, 1883 – 1945

Sonatina in G-minor for Violin and Piano D 408 - Franz Schubert
1. Allegro giusto
2. Andante
3. Menuetto: Allegro vivace
4. Allegro moderato

 
*Lower left photo of Kurtag at piano originally appeared https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/arts/music/gyorgy-kurtag-opera.html.