VADIM REPIN / NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY
© Camilla Maria Santini, Simon Pauly
Debussy, Akhunov, Franck
Stage left, the tsar of the piano. Playing of incomparable suppleness, supernatural fluidity and poetry at his fingertips. Stage right, the emperor of the violin. Superlative ease and extraordinary stage presence. The pairing of Nikolaï Lugansky and Vadim Repin (born just one year apart) promises to be electrifying all the more so as they take on the feverish Sonata in which César Franck orchestrates a splendid hand-to-hand struggle between the two instruments.
Programme
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor
SERGEY AKHUNOV (1967-)
Chaconne for violin and piano
CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major FWV 8
Concert without interval
Vadim Repin plays Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D, Op. 94a: 4. Allegro con brio
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This afternoon, the two Russian giants present a finely structured programme. In the Sonata for Violin and Piano, Debussy casts a gaze at once nostalgic and despairing over his youth. In 1915, the French composer knew he was condemned by cancer. The third of the six he had planned, the Violin Sonata returns to classical forms, notably with a theme that runs through the whole work, and lets the voices of the two instruments speak with desperate freedom. Finally, César Franck employs a technique close to the Wagnerian leitmotif in his famous Sonata for Violin and Piano since a main theme runs through every movement, constantly transforming itself. The Lugansky / Repin duo can be relied upon to cast a spell over the shifting moods of this breathtaking masterpiece.
