»Playfulness and Elegance« explores the delicate balance between virtuosity and stylistic clarity. Jean-Marie Leclair’s sonata displays Baroque agility and structural precision, while York Bowen and Carl Maria von Weber highlight the viola as an expressive, richly colored instrument. After the intermission, Scarlatti’s sonatas unfold a concentrated form of musical expression that expands into perfect balance in Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 488—a work in which elegance, transparency, and expression appear in ideal harmony.
PERFORMERS
Fine Arts Quartet string quartet
Ralph Evans violin
Efim Boico violin
Gil Sharon viola
Niklas Schmidt violoncello
Peijun Xu viola
Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic viola
Jens Bomhardt double bass
Stepan Simonian piano
Alon Goldstein piano
PROGRAM
Jean Marie Leclair
Sonate c-Moll op. 12/5 für zwei Violinen
York Bowen
Phantasy for Viola and Piano, Op. 54
Carl Maria von Weber
Andante und Rondo ungarese c-Moll J 79 für Viola und Klavier
- Interval -
Domenico Scarlatti
Drei Sonaten für Klavier
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major, KV 415 (387b)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A major, KV 488
