Duo-Konzert: Felix Mendelssohn, Beethoven und Tschaikowsky – Klangwelten im Dialog

Felix Mendelssohn, who revived an entire era with the revival of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829, also left behind musical treasures of his own that only came to light later. His Sonata in F major for violin and piano, discovered by Yehudi Menuhin in 1953, combines classical formal rigor with romantic expressiveness. A lyrical elegance pervades the work - an ideal of sound whose later echoes can be found in the "Autumn Song" from The Seasons op. 37b by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky. Mendelssohn takes up the latter's intimate melancholy and continues it in a Russian style. From here, the path leads back to Ludwig van Beethoven, who fundamentally shaped the equality of violin and piano with his Sonata in C minor op. 30 no. 2. At the zenith of his fame, but already marked by the catastrophe of deafness, he elevated the genre of the violin sonata to new heights - two voices, two destinies, united in the pursuit of the higher.
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