Adelaide Festival presents

The Transcendental

Poème: Chamber Landscapes

American transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, and they are two of the personalities encountered in the Concord Sonata by Charles Ives. The authors recognised in Beethoven a pantheistic world-view which they themselves promoted. In this spirit, Beethoven’s final Violin Sonata, a great work in the pastoral genre, is paired with Ives’ epic masterpiece.

PROGRAM

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.10 in G major
Elina Vähälä (violin), Paavali Jumppanen (piano)

Interval

Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord, Mass., 1840 – 1860
Konstantin Shamray (piano)

This event is part of the Poème: Chamber Landscapes program.