Chamber Concert: Violin Piano

Bamberg, Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal
20:00 Uhr

Our first concertmaster Ilian Garnetz will have the opportunity to express himself playfully on stage this evening. His talent was recognised at an early age: growing up in an artistic family, he made his debut as a soloist at the age of ten and later studied with Igor Oistrach, among others. Today, he is a prize winner of major competitions and a sought-after chamber musician. For this chamber concert, he and Stanislav Jar on the piano have prepared a rich and captivating programme that reflects a dynamic era full of contrast. The concert opens with a colourful work by George Enescu, often referred to as the »Romanian Mozart«, who masterfully wove folk elements into his music as both a violinist and a composer. He wrote his second Violin Sonata in 1899, when he was just 17 years old and studying in Paris – a city considered to be a melting pot of cultures during the Belle Époque. Among Enescu’s fellow students at the time was Maurice Ravel, who later masterfully completed his chamber music oeuvre with a sonata rich in timbres: composed in 1927, the work invokes American jazz with a blues movement and ends in a virtuoso »perpetuum mobile«. Béla Bartók was also inspired by folk elements: his first Violin Sonata, written in 1921 for the violinist Jelly d’Arányi, is highly complex and at the same time imbued with an irrepressible joy of playing. When she performed the work in Paris for the first time, Ravel sat at the piano turning the pages – an occasion in which the musical trends of the time came together in a single room.

Ilian Garnetz Violin
Stanislav Jar Piano

George Enescu Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 2 f-Moll op. 6
Maurice Ravel Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 2
Béla Bartók Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1