Programme
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66
EUGÈNE YSAŸE
Sonata for Two Violins, Op. posth.
VITTORIO MONTI
Csárdás
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI
Variations on a theme of Paganini for Two Pianos
- Martha Argerich piano
- Gautier Capuçon cello
- Pierre Colombet violin
- Leonidas Kavakos violin
- Mischa Maisky cello
- Yuja Wang piano
- Julian Rachlin conductor, viola, violin
- Yuri Bashmet viola
- Roby Lakatos violin
- Vadim Repin violin
Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos, and Gautier Capuçon get the ball rolling with Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2, followed by Leonidas Kavakos and Joshua Bell performing a Ysaÿe Duo Sonata. Denis Matsuev, Julian Rachlin, and Roby Lakatos tackle Vittorio Monti’s Csardas, transcribed for two violins and piano. Brahms’ Piano Quartet follows, featuring Kissin, Repin, Bashmet, and Maïsky. Finally, as the cherry on the cake, legendary pianists Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin bring Lutoslawski’s Variations sur un thème de Paganini with head-spinning virtuosity.