Tabea Zimmermann. Javier Perianes
Brahms: late confessions

In 1850, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik described Schumann's "Fantasiestücke" op. 73 as "a rapturous excitement, sometimes wafted by a melancholy breath, sometimes rising to jubilant sounds of joy". All these facets can also be found in the E-flat major sonata written 44 years later by Brahms, who was Schumann's patron – his very last chamber music work. Tabea Zimmermann presents another compositional farewell work with Shostakovich's Viola Sonata from 1975. Benjamin Britten, a friend of the Russian, takes up the latter's melancholy tones in his "Lachrymae" (Tears), which are variations on a lament by the Renaissance composer John Dowland.

Clef at 6.30 pm in the Senate Hall: concert introduction with Marcus Imbsweiler and Tabea Zimmermann, made possible by the Friends of Heidelberger Frühling


Tabea Zimmermann

Viola

Javier Perianes

Piano


Robert Schumann
Fantasy pieces op. 73

Johannes Brahms
Sonata No. 2 in E flat major for viola and piano op. 120/2

Benjamin Britten
Lachrymae op. 48

Dmitri Shostakovich
Sonata for viola and piano op. 147