Mikhaïl Pletnev | piano
Gidon Kremer | violin
Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė | cello
Mikhaïl Pletnev and Gidon Kremer are joined by cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė for an evening tinged with nostalgia.
Mozart Sonata for violin and piano No. 21 K. 304
Schubert Sonata for violin and piano Op. 162 D. 574 « Grand Duo »
Tchaikovsky Trio for piano Op. 50 « Hommage à l’artiste »
Pletnev is not only a major representative of the Russian school of piano but a peerless performer of all the standards on the international circuit. After a long absence from avenue Montaigne, he made his comeback last season with a programme of Brahms and Dvořák. He returns this season in the company of violinist Gidon Kremer and cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, a member of the Kremerata Baltica founded by Kremer, for an evening tinged with nostalgia. They will open with Mozart’s Sonata for Violin and Piano K. 304, the only sonata in E minor, composed after a period of bereavement, and follow it up with Schubert’s Sonata opus 162 which is also bathed in nostalgia. In the second half, Tchaikovsky’s Trio “as a tribute to a great artist”, which lasts almost 45 minutes and makes huge demands on the performers, will bring the evening to a close with its soft elegiac tones.
Coproduction Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati | Théâtre des Champs-Elysées