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