Leonidas Kavakos violin; Emanuel Ax piano

Performers

Leonidas Kavakos

violin

Emanuel Ax

piano

Programme

Beethoven

• Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in Eb Op. 12 No. 3
• Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1
• Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2

About this concert

Beethoven drew inspiration from the Viennese violinist, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, while crafting his Op. 12 violin sonatas in 1798. The composer treated violin and piano as equal partners, a strategy fully explored four years later in his commanding Op. 30 works.

Interplay and exchange are central to the three pieces in this programme, qualities guaranteed to trigger mercurial music-making from the entrancing partnership of Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax, here for their second Wigmore Hall Beethoven recital this season.

Supported by an anonymous donor

This concert is part of the Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series.