Once Upon a Time, there was the Violin
With Frédéric Lodéon
Who hasn’t at one time associated the violin with the popular image of André Rieu, the incarnation of a post-modern Johann Strauss? Vivaldi, the red-haired priest who pioneered the solo concerto, Paganini, the virtuoso demon who finished his concerts with one remaining string; so many stories, factual or invented, have built up the legends around this perfectly proportioned instrument! The violin has talked and been talked about for more than three centuries already. But what do we really know about it? In his daily radio broadcast on France Inter called Carrefour de Lodéon, the exceptional cellist and famous radio announcer Frédéric Lodéon has been presenting classical music for almost twenty years, making it accessible to the public at a prime hour. Isabelle Meyer and Michael Zuber, for their part, come from a long violin-playing tradition, handed down from the great masters and incorporating the most historically important schools. With musical extracts, compositions by the greatest violinists in history, meticulous musicological research and anecdotal stories, Once Upon a Time, There Was the Violin invites you to rediscover this mythical instrument through 350 years of virtuoso violin playing. The story began on the day the hairs of a horse met the gut of a cat…
Programme
Corelli
La Folia, variations sérieuses
Vivaldi
Sonata for two violins, RV 70
Bach
Partita No. 1 in B minor
Tartini
L’arte dell’arco, variations on a Gavotte by Corelli
Locatelli
Sonata for two violins, Op. IV No. 5
Leclair
Sonata for two violins without bass, Op. III
Viotti
Duo, Op. 29
Paganini & Milstein
Paganiniana, variations
Spohr
Duo, Op. 153
Wieniawski
Caprices, Op. 18
Ysaÿe
Ballade
Prokofiev
Sonata for two violins, Op. 56
Bartók
Duos
Starring
- Frédéric Lodéon
- Isabelle Meyer
- Michael Zuber