Lugansky . Repin - Beethoven "Kreutzer" Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 9

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin & piano No. 9 in A major ("Kreutzer"), Op. 47 (1803)
Nikolai Lugansky, piano
Vadim Repin, violin, 2017

I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto [0:00]
II. Andante con Variazioni [14:25]
III. Finale. Presto [28:16]

“The Kreutzer Sonata is Beethoven’s only violin sonata to open with a slow introduction. He presents the violin alone at first, in regal A major, but the demonic, tempestuous main part of the movement occurs in A minor. A momentary halt of the driving momentum allows the chorale-like second theme to illuminate the scene briefly. It bears a certain relationship to the slow introduction, which Beethoven also recalls in the coda.

In the second movement a rich theme begets four variations—the first playful, the second with repeated notes in perpetual motion, the third with an air of tragedy, the fourth ethereally florid—followed by an extended introspective coda. […]

The transplanted finale caps the Sonata brilliantly. A crashing A major chord cancels the remote key of the variation movement and launches a whirling movement based on the rhythm of the fast Italian dance known as the tarantella. Leading a merry chase through quasi-fugal terrain, “hunting” calls, breakneck “spinning” passages, and witty restarts, Beethoven ingeniously unfurls a sonata-rondo that pauses only to regain momentum."

- Jane Vial Jaffe, Parlance Chamber Concerts

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