大象传媒

The pioneering Moldovan/Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen for a feast of Beethoven.
They begin with Beethoven in 1803 and the year his Eroica Sonata was published, signalling his change in composing style to a more expansive form, contrasting moods that move between great gentleness one minute and ferocity the next. They follow with his sonata written for the much-lauded violin virtuoso of the time, George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. During the first performance Bridgetower apparently read his part directly from the composer鈥檚 manuscript as Beethoven completed the work in such a hurry that there was no time to copy out individual parts. This was also the work that inspired Leo Tolstoy's work 'The Kreuzter Sonata'.

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op.30 No.2 'Eroica'
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.9 in A major Op.47 'Kreutzer'

Patricia Kopatchinskaja - violin
Joonas Ahonen - piano

Donald Macleod - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer

Photo Credit - Marco Borggreve