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Kreutzer Sonata
The Australian Chamber Orchestra performs Beethoven’s and Janáček’s Kreutzer Sonatas, within a dramatic realisation of Tolstoy’s scandalous Kreutzer story. Don’t miss this chance to hear Richard Tognetti as soloist in one of Beethoven’s greatest violin works.
“Tognetti and his 21-piece group can apparently play anything, and they play it all with tremendous verve.” San Francisco Classical Voice, 2009
The violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer would be amazed to know what has been created in his name. Beethoven didn’t even write the “Kreutzer Sonata” for him, but for the man he called the “lunatic mullato”, George Bridgetower.
Beethoven’s sonata is the psychological pivot of Leo Tolstoy’s novella “The Kreutzer Sonata”, about a man who kills his adulterous wife. That she and her violinist lover play the Kreutzer together is testament to its emotional power. Tolstoy was branded a moral pervert on publication of the novella and Janácek’s violent reaction to it inspired his first string quartet, itself a psychological drama bursting with passion.
The ACO has played Richard Tognetti’s arrangements of these two great works all over the world and here brings them together 100 years after the death of Tolstoy, whose still-controversial story connects these two wildly dramatic pieces.
JANÁČEK (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet No.1, The Kreutzer Sonata
BEETHOVEN (arr. Tognetti) Violin Sonata in A, Kreutzer
Venue: Concert Hall
Dates: Sun 21 Nov, 2.30pm
Duration: 2 hours
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Reviews
"For vitality, elegance, playfulness and technical prowess… it would be hard to top the ACO." San Francisco Chronicle, 2009
“[The ACO] plays everything with raw, high-spirited, rhythmically propulsive energy… Early music doesn’t get much hipper than this.” Los Angeles Times, 2009
“Hearing [the ACO] perform, you could easily believe that its kinetic, precise and engaging playing was simply too exuberant to be bottled up by sitting down.” New York Times, 2009