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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2021: Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen

Edinburgh International Festival 2021

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Trailblazing violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and pianist Joonas Ahonen in recital.

Pioneering Moldovan-Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen for a feast of Beethoven.

The pioneering Moldovan/Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen for a feast of Beethoven.
They begin with Beethoven in 1803 and the year his Eroica Sonata was published, signalling his change in composing style to a more expansive form, contrasting moods that move between great gentleness one minute and ferocity the next.  They follow with his sonata written for the much-lauded violin virtuoso of the time, George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower.  During the first performance Bridgetower apparently read his part directly from the composer’s manuscript as Beethoven completed the work in such a hurry that there was no time to copy out individual parts. This was also the work that inspired Leo Tolstoy's work 'The Kreuzter Sonata'.  

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op.30 No.2 'Eroica' 
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.9 in A major Op.47 'Kreutzer'

Patricia Kopatchinskaja - violin
Joonas Ahonen - piano


Donald Macleod - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer

Photo Credit - Marco Borggreve

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2021

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Recitals and chamber music from the University of Edinburgh's Old College Quad.

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