Artists
Renaud Capucon
Violin
Kit Armstrong
Piano
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major Op. 12/1
Charles Ives
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2
Arnold Schoenberg
Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment Op. 47
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major Op. 96
Approximate running time:
1h 30m
with one intermission
“There is a great man living in this country—a composer,” Arnold Schoenberg wrote toward the end of his life in his American exile: “His name is Ives.” Renaud Capuçon and Kit Armstrong perform Schoenberg’s late Phantasy for Violin and Piano, written in 1949, alongside Charles Ives’s Second Violin Sonata, a vivid musical portrait of the composer’s home country that brims with allusions and quotes from popular and traditional American music. Two of Beethoven’s sonatas bookend the program.