Schubert’s Grand Duo and the Strauss Violin Sonata are rich with beautiful melodies and high drama—perfect for a winter’s night. A Haydn solo sonata for piano shares a musical language with Schubert, while a Ysaÿe solo sonata for violin moves the music into the twentieth century with echoes of Bach and the Baroque.

Franz Liszt considered Schubert ‘ … the most poetic musician that ever lived.’

The Strauss sonata is ‘…a riot of musical colour” and strongly reminiscent of a dramatic opera’ according to Australian violinist Anne Harvey-Nagl, Concertmaster of the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra.

These works are brought to life by Indonesian Australian pianist Calvin Abdiel, who is establishing a reputation as one of the finest young international musicians. Piers Lane praised his ‘amazing musical brain and musicianship’ and ‘remarkable keyboard skills.’  He is joined by violinist Cedar Newman, 20, a President’s Scholarship student at the Manhattan School of Music New York. Her playing has been described as ‘breathtakingly virtuosic’ (H.Muse City News).

PROGRAM

Franz Schubert Violin and Piano Sonata No. 4 ‘Grand Duo in A major, Op. posth. 162, D 574

Joseph Haydn Sonata in C major Hob.XVI:35 ,36

Interval

Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe, Sonata No.5 for Solo Violin ‘Aurora and Rustic Dance’

Richard Strauss, Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 18 (1887–88)