Anne Luisa Kramb, violin
Teatime Classics
Between Romanticism and Functionalism
Anne Luisa Kramb already has an impressive list of international prizes and awards to her name. The young violinist holds scholarships from the RC Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Oscar und Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg, and she plays the Stradivarius »Paganini« of 1724, on loan from the private collection of the Wiegand family. Anne Luisa Kramb’s regular duo partner is the pianist Julius Asal, who has an excellent reputation as both a soloist and a chamber musician. Julius Asal has been awarded the Steinway Prize, and holds scholarships from the Oxford Philharmonic Society, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Ferruccio Busoni Foundation.
Tonight’s programme features two sonatas for violin and piano – one written by Richard Strauss in 1887, the other, by Ravel, dating from 1927. Although both composers belong to the same generation, the two works couldn’t be more different. In his only violin sonata, Strauss evolves a Late Romantic display of colour, while the Ravel accommodates the ideals of the »Neue Sachlichkeit« movement (New Functionalism) with lean-structured writing and echoes of the blues.
Performers
Anne Luisa Kramb violin
Julius Asal piano
Programme
Richard Strauss
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat major, Op. 18
Maurice Ravel
Sonate G-Dur für Violine und Klavier
Encore:
Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
Cécile Chaminade / Fritz Kreisler
Serenade Espagnole
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