We’re coming to you from the Kronberg Academy in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany, for the weekly concert of the Kronberg Academy Young Virtuosi Series, featuring violinist Ruslan Talas. For this concert, entitled Strings and Shadows, Ruslan is joined by violist Noga Shaham, cellists Oliver Herbert and Clara Yuna Friedensburg.
Every Wednesday at 12 PM (ET), audiences can watch an hour-long concert featuring the Kronberg Academy’s students from the Professional Studies program and the Sir András Schiff Performance Program for Young Pianists. Recorded at the Carl Bechstein Hall, the recital programs were designed by the young artists themselves, and often feature their friends from the Academy’s Bachelor and Master programs performing alongside them.
Sofia Gubaidulina (1981)
Sonata for Violin and Cello “Your joy no one will take away from you”
First movement (Dedicated to Natalia Gutman and Oleg Kagan)
Zoltan Kodaly (1914)
Duo for Violin and Cello
I. Allegro serioso, non troppo
II. Adagio — Andante
III. Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento — Presto
Anton Arensky (1894)
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 (Dedicated to the memory of Tchaikovsky)
I. Moderato
II. Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky (Moderato)
III. Finale. Andante sostenuto — Allegro moderato