Performers
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Polina Osetinskaya, Piano

Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya return after a “mesmerizing” and “brilliant” 2022 performance (The Strad). The first half of the concert features music written for 19th-century violin icon Joseph Joachim, starting with Clara Schumann’s rarely performed Three Romances. Also included are the movement that Brahms contributed to the “FAE” Sonata, assembled in collaboration with Robert Schumann and Albert Dietrich; and Robert Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 3, in which the composer “completed” the FAE by adding new movements in place of his partners’. The second half of the concert features a series of miniatures and a powerful sonata by Prokofiev, which he brilliantly re-composed for violin.

Program
C. SCHUMANN Three Romances, Op. 22
BRAHMS Scherzo from “FAE” Sonata
R. SCHUMANN Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Minor
PROKOFIEV Five Melodies for Violin and Piano
PROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94bis