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Guest Artist Recital: Alexander Goldberg, violin, and Mariko Kaneda, piano, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Admission is free. For more information, visit owu.edu/PerformingArts.
Please join Mariko Kaneda (Music Faculty 2004-2018) who has been collaborating with the Performing Arts Department, and Alexander Goldberg (violin), a Yale graduate pursuing a Doctorate in Violin Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center, for a violin and piano recital. They will take you to a journey of musical transformation, exploring how four great composers engaged with the sounds of the past and the spirit of folk tradition.
The first half of this recital is a study in historical dialogue. Ysaÿe's monumental Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 27 No. 1 pays direct homage to Bach's Sei Solo sonatas, forging a new idiom of late-Romantic polyphony with baroque roots. In contrast, Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 offers a brilliant neoclassical language, presenting classical form and rhetoric through a distinctly modern lens.
The second half turns its ear to the music of the people. Brahms' Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100, anchors itself in pastoral beauty, weaving a rustic grace of the Ländler folk dance into its heart and anchored by soaring, tuneful melodies. The program concludes with Ravel's Tzigane, a dazzling virtuosic showcase that explodes with colorful Hungarian and Roma-inspired melodies, echoing the Hungarian influences that also inspired Ysaÿe.