“Ich bin Bachianer” III – Humility & Models IX
Chamber Music
Friday, 28 July 2023
7.30 pm, Saanen Church
“Ich bin Bachianer” – literally “I am Bachian”, a disciple of Bach: a phrase by Johannes Brahms, which says a lot about the debt paid by his successors to the great Johann Sebastian, especially when they were German and lived in the 19th century, the age of his vibrant rediscovery. It is a global debt, which in Brahms's case affects all facets of his musical identity: the pianist, the conductor, the arranger, the researcher, the collector, and of course the composer. Of the three sonatas he dedicated to the violin and which are presented here in their entirety by the very faithful Renaud Capuçon and one of the new “Menuhin's Heritage Artists”, his compatriot Alexandre Kantorow, two were written on the idyllic shores of Lake Thun: the Second and Third, which were written between 1886 and 1888 in his summer retreat of Hofstetten, i.e., in the autumn of his life, at the instigation of his friend, the Bernese poet Joseph Viktor Widmann.
Renaud Capuçon, Violin
Alexandre Kantorow, Piano
Menuhin's Heritage Artist
| Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | |
| Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78 “Regensonate” | 27' |
| Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 “Thun” | 20' |
| Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108 | 22' |
| 70' | |
| CHF 160/135/95/40 |
