Salon Music at Highgate School Chapel at Highgate School Chapel, London on Wednesday 27th April 2022

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Salon Music at Highgate School Chapel

Add to my Calendar 27-04-2022 18:30 27-04-2022 20:30 36 Salon Music at Highgate School Chapel Sonata for Violin in E-flat Major, Op. 18 Strauss had already composed a number of chamber pieces when, at only 23, he wrote the sonata for Violin in E-flat Major. Although sonata experts would not quite rank it with pieces by Beethoven or Brahms, it has remained very popular is frequently both performed and recorded. But rather than being a precursor of things to come for Strauss, at that point he effectively abandoned chamber music in favour of the symphonic fantasies, tone poems and opera for which he is best known.  Very possibly this change of direction was occasioned by his burgeoning love affair with the operatic soprano Pauline de Ahna whom he later married. (She was, reportedly, both eccentric and difficult but, maybe for that reason, was a great source of inspiration for Strauss and they remained happily married until their deaths, within eight months of each other, in 1950.) To complement the Strauss Joana and Martin have chosen three other violin piano duos – Mozart’s Sonata No. 27 in G major, K. 379 (of which more anon), two pieces from the hugely talented Lili Boulanger, whose career was cruelly cut short in 1918 by her death from intestinal tuberculosis at only 24 –  and a Romance by the all but forgotten 19th century German composer, Luise Adolpha le Beau. Highgate School Chapel, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Highgate School Chapel
Southwood Lane
Highgate
London
N6 4AY
England

Wednesday 27th April 2022
6:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Sonata in G major, K.379/373a
Lili Boulanger – 2 Pieces for Violin and Piano
Luise Adolpha Le Beau – Romance, Op.35
Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op.18

Performers

Joana Ly – violin
Martin André – Piano

Programme Note

Sonata for Violin in E-flat Major, Op. 18

Strauss had already composed a number of chamber pieces when, at only 23, he wrote the sonata for Violin in E-flat Major. Although sonata experts would not quite rank it with pieces by Beethoven or Brahms, it has remained very popular is frequently both performed and recorded.

But rather than being a precursor of things to come for Strauss, at that point he effectively abandoned chamber music in favour of the symphonic fantasies, tone poems and opera for which he is best known. Very possibly this change of direction was occasioned by his burgeoning love affair with the operatic soprano Pauline de Ahna whom he later married. (She was, reportedly, both eccentric and difficult but, maybe for that reason, was a great source of inspiration for Strauss and they remained happily married until their deaths, within eight months of each other, in 1950.)

To complement the Strauss Joana and Martin have chosen three other violin piano duos – Mozart’s Sonata No. 27 in G major, K. 379 (of which more anon), two pieces from the hugely talented Lili Boulanger, whose career was cruelly cut short in 1918 by her death from intestinal tuberculosis at only 24 – and a Romance by the all but forgotten 19th century German composer, Luise Adolpha le Beau.

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