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Christian Tetzlaff and Leif Ove Andsnes

From the 2017 Edinburgh Festival, sonatas by Mozart, Janacek and Shostakovich featuring German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen鈥檚 Hall over the past decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces a performance from 2017 of a musical pairing that has performed together for over twenty years. German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes open their recital with Janacek's violin sonata, written during great turmoil in 1914. Then follows a selection of Sibelius's miniatures and Mozart's elegant Sonata No 27, written in just one hour. They close with Shostakovich's Violin Sonata, written for his friend the violin virtuoso David Oistrakh.

Janacek: Violin Sonata, JW VII/7
Sibelius: Danses champ锚tres, Op 106 nos 2, 4 and 5
Mozart: Violin Sonata No 27 in G, K379

INTERVAL: Karen Cargill sings Mahler's 搁眉肠办别谤迟-尝颈别诲别谤

Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op.134

Christian Tetzlaff - violin
Leif Ove Andsnes - piano

Photograph - Giorgia Bertazzi

1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Violin Sonata

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Danses champ锚tres, Op 106 (nos 2, 4 and 5)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata No 27 in G, K379

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
  • Gustav Mahler

    搁眉肠办别谤迟-尝颈别诲别谤

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • Alma & Gustav Mahler: Lieder.
    • Linn.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Violin Sonata, Op.134

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
  • Hannah Kendall

    Middlegame (On the Chequere'd Field Array'd)

    Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.
    • Halo, Music for Piano.
    • NIMBUS ALLIANCE.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 Aug 2020 11:00