Rencontres Inédites: Kavakos, Špaček, Teh Engstroem, Ferrández, Weilerstein, Gerstein, and Lim perform Brahms and Dvořak
Verbier Festival 2024
Cast
Leonidas Kavakos — Violinist
Josef Špaček — Violinist
Blythe Teh Engstroem — Violist
Pablo Ferrández-Castro — Cellist
Alisa Weilerstein — Cellist
Kirill Gerstein — Pianist
Yunchan Lim — Pianist
Program notes
In this remarkable concert from the Verbier Festival’s Rencontres Inédites (Unprecedented encounters), top-tier artists join forces in chamber music ensembles to present a program uniting two emblematic Romantic composers: Brahms and Dvořák. Written in 1882, the Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major was created after Brahms had solidified his status as an internationally renowned composer. The notoriously self-critical musician even told his publisher that “you have not yet had such a beautiful trio from me and very likely have not published its equal in the last ten years”. Mentored and supported by Brahms, Dvořák composed his exquisite Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major in 1889, infusing Classical form and technique with the spirit of his Czech homeland.
Photo © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Leonidas Kavakos and Pablo Ferrández appear courtesy of Sony Classical. Yunchan Lim appears courtesy of Decca Classics. Alisa Weilerstein appears courtesy of Pentatone.
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