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| 1803 portrait of Beethoven by Christian Horneman |
This weekend, 3 and 4 May 2025, Conway hall is having an immersive event giving us the opportunity to hear hear all of Beethoven’s major chamber works with piano – violin sonatas, cello sonatas and piano trios – across six concerts. The performers are pianist Daniel Tong (pianist in the London Bridge Trio and director of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival), violinist Sara Trickey (member of the Rosetti Ensemble) and cellist Robin Michael (principal cellist in Les Siecles and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique), and they will be joined by musicologist and broadcaster Richard Wigmore who will be giving illustrated lectures on both days.
The first day takes us from the Piano Trios Op. 1 to the Ghost Trio, along with the Cello Sonatas Op. 5, the Violin Sonatas Op. 12 and the Spring Sonata. The second day picks up with the second Piano Trio Op. 70 and ends with the Archduke Trio, along with the Violin Sonatas Op. 30 and Op. 96, and the Cello Sonatas Op. 69 and Op. 102.
Beethoven was a brilliant pianist as well as a composer, and performed all of his piano parts himself until deafness prevented him from playing in public for the last part of his career. Therefore, through these works, an insight is glimpsed into Beethoven’s unique and ground-breaking genius as it emerged through his chosen instrument and his own fingers at the keyboard.
What better way to spend a Bank Holiday weekend!
Full details from the Conway Hall website.
