Beethoven pur II – Beethoven 250
Sol Gabetta & Alexander Melnikov
Chamber Music
Sunday, 26 July 2020
6 pm, Saanen Church
This second part of the complete works for cello proposed by Sol Gabetta and Alexander Melnikov (on “historical” piano) offers the unique opportunity to apprehend almost side by side the three great creative stages that this repertoire is made of. The first two sonatas (Op. 5) were composed in 1796; with their “cello obligato”, they still clearly point towards the Classical (or even Baroque) period. The third sonata (Op. 69), composed between 1807 and 1808, was created during a period of intense creativity, marked in particular by the dawning of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. The final two (Op. 102) appeared at a time when the musician was taking a kind of break: at the peak of his art – eight of his nine symphonies are now behind him – he “retreats” better to leap into the ocean of an expressiveness freed from all its chains.
Sol Gabetta, Cello
Alexander Melnikov, Fortepiano
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
| Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1 | 25' |
| Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 | 30' |
| – interval – | |
| 12 Variations on a theme from Handel's “Judas Maccabeus” in G Major, WoO 45 | 15' |
| Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2 | 25' |
| 120' | |
| CHF 125/105/65/40 |