MUSIK IM RÖMERmuseum: Gabriel Yeo: Sonaten und Variationen
Born in Münster, at 17 awarded the GWK sponsorship prize, after that honored in international piano competitions, Gabriel Yeo will complete this year the solo class of Prof. Bernd Goetzke in Hanover.
Delicate and touching, Haydn's C-sharp minor sonata. “C-sharp minor. A lament, a confidential conversation with God; with a friend; and with the playmate of life; sighs of unfulfilled friendship and love lie in its surroundings.” Does what Ch. D. Schubart wrote about the key in 1784/85 still hold true?
Relaxation, lightness, and brilliance exude from Beethoven's E-flat major sonata. There is no slow movement; the finale is a wild dance, a rocky hunt. Hymn-like, yet song-like and shy is the theme of Brahms' variations, in which his friend Josef Joachim found “chaste tenderness.” Except for brief romantic outbursts, the variations are rather introverted, lyrical, and meditative. In contrast, Gabriel Yeo presents Schumann's “Carnaval,” a contrasting masquerade ball. The 21 “little scenes on four notes” have expressive titles and are composed around the notes A, S, C, H in different orders. These unique “musical letters” of his name resulted for the young Schumann in the name of the Bohemian town from which Ernestine, his then beloved, came. One miniature bears her name as a title, another that of his later wife Clara. Moreover, Chopin and Paganini appear, figures from the Commedia dell’arte or Schumann's artistic characters, embodying his dual nature, the extroverted stormy Florestan and the elegiac-dreamy, introverted Eusebius. In the end, the Davidsbündler rise against the Philistines, the academically rigid foes of the new art, in a passionate battle – and triumph.
Program: Sonatas and Variations
Haydn: Sonata No. 49 in C-sharp minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major “La Chasse”
Brahms: 11 Variations, Op. 21 No. 1
Schumann: Carnaval
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