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Mozart Meets Beethoven: From Darkness into Light

The mournful two movement Sonata in e minor is an unusual work within Mozart’s output in this duo genre, and ranges from languishing melancholy, to stormy angst, to a nod to the delicacy and subtlety of the Baroque. With Mozart’s Adagio in b minor, K 540, it is not hard to imagine that this late composition was another expression of his darker, existential side. The program continues the dialogue between fortepiano and the violin with the youthful optimism and irrepressible energy and virtuosity of Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major.

Yi-heng plays an exquisite copy of Mozart’s Walter fortepiano by Christopher Clarke.

Cynthia Roberts ~ violin
Yi-heng Yang ~ harpsichord