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The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Maurice Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Cello
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio, Op.50
Alban Berg – Piano Sonata, Op.1
Performers
Antje Weithaas – Violin
Bjørg Lewis – Cello
Aleksandar Madžar – piano
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Programme Note
The final recital of the series brings an exploration of pieces derived and developed from small kernels of musical material.
Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello was dedicated to the memory of Debussy and is a study in Debussy’s idea of depouillement (economy of means). The sonata is reduced to just two instruments and the music is developed from two initial themes.
Berg’s sonata consists of just one movement which follows the traditional sonata form of exposition, development and recapitulation. The thematic material however, follows Schoenberg’s idea of ‘developing variation’ in which all the material for the piece is developed from a single idea, ensuring unity throughout the piece. As in Ravel’s work all the material for Berg’s sonata is derived from two opening figures.
