Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Francesca Dego and Alessio Bax

Francesca Dego and Alessio Bax

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Francesca Dego and Alessio Bax

Live from Wigmore Hall, a recital of violin sonatas by Mozart and Brahms.

Live from Wigmore Hall, a pair of violin sonatas from the classical and romantic eras: Mozart's Violin Sonata in B flat, K454, and Brahms's Violin Sonata No 1 in G.

Italian violinist Francesca Dego is joined by her compatriot Alessio Bax, in a recital featuring Mozart’s Violin Sonata in B flat K454, written for violin virtuoso Regina Strinasacchi of Mantua for a concert in Vienna in 1784. At this premiere, although Mozart had the piano part securely in his head, he did not give himself enough time to write it out, and so he performed it with a sheet of blank music paper in front of him in order to fool the audience. This sonata is coupled with the autumnal nostalgia of Brahms' First Violin Sonata, inspired by a musical idea from one of Brahms’ own songs, ‘Regenlied’ (‘Rain Song’) and consequently sometimes referred to as the ‘Rain Sonata’. 

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in B flat, K454
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78
	
Francesca Dego (violin)
Alessio Bax (piano)

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