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Celebrity Violin & Piano Recital
Beethoven, Debussy & Messiaen
Part of the Holy Trinity Church Coventry - Free Saturday Lunchtime Showcase for Young Talent 2019 Cycle
Add to my Calendar 06-04-2019 13:00 06-04-2019 15:00 36 Celebrity Violin & Piano Recital Olivier Messiaen's Theme and Variations was written as a wedding present for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbois, whom he married on 22 June 1932. The young couple gave the first performance on 22 November the same year. Beethoven dedicated his second Violin Sonata, Op, 12. No. 2, to Antonio Salieri. Claude Debussy was already suffering with the cancer which was to prematurely end his life, when he began his Violin Sonata. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed it the following year. It was to be his final composition. Its three short movements provide a remarkable range of moods and emotions and, as Debussy himself touchingly commented, it represents ‘an example of what may be produced by a sick man in time of war’. Holy Trinity Church, Coventry DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Holy Trinity Church
5A Priory Row
Coventry
West Midlands
CV1 5EX
England
Programme
Olivier Messiaen – Theme & Variations
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata no.2 in A major, Op.12 no.2
Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata
Performers
Victoria Farrell-Reed – violin
Leyla Cemiloglu – piano
Programme Note
Olivier Messiaen's Theme and Variations was written as a wedding present for his first wife, the violinist Claire Delbois, whom he married on 22 June 1932. The young couple gave the first performance on 22 November the same year.
Beethoven dedicated his second Violin Sonata, Op, 12. No. 2, to Antonio Salieri.
Claude Debussy was already suffering with the cancer which was to prematurely end his life, when he began his Violin Sonata. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed it the following year. It was to be his final composition. Its three short movements provide a remarkable range of moods and emotions and, as Debussy himself touchingly commented, it represents ‘an example of what may be produced by a sick man in time of war’.
