Name: Recital: Augustin Hadelich Plays Bach, Ysaÿe, Perkinson
Start: 2023-06-18T19:30:00
Location: Aspen Meadows Resort

Augustin Hadelich

Aspen Music Festival

The Milwaukee Shepherd Express conjectured that he “well may be the best violinist in the world. [His] gorgeous sound is ample and rich always. Every detail is played with perfectly clear intent.” Augustin Hadelich’s astonishing technique, eloquent phrasing, and seeming effortlessness will be on display in two of Bach’s works for unaccompanied violin. These pinnacles of compositional achievement offer a supreme challenge to the soloist on technical, physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Inspired by a performance of Bach's six sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin, the Belgian composer and violinist Eugene Ysaÿe wrote his own set of six solo sonatas in 1923. Each of the sonatas was dedicated to a younger violinist and reflects something of Ysaÿe's concept of the dedicatee's personality. Hadelich will play the second sonata of the set, in which Bach is not just the inspiration, but the "obsession,” (the work’s subtitle). It contains a musical quotation from the Bach E major partita which opens this program. Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms deftly hops genres in a fusion of both blues and baroque styles. Don’t miss this captivating solo outing by a violin superstar!