Beethoven Marathon: Complete Chamber Music

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The Chamber Music season will form part of L’Auditori’s celebrations to commemorate the ‎‎250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. Audiences will be able to enjoy an ‎immersive day consisting of nine concerts and a total of 14 hours of the composer’s finest ‎chamber music. The concerts will be given by acclaimed groups and performers with ties to ‎Catalunya, who will play Beethoven’s piano trios and the complete violin and piano sonatas ‎and cello and piano sonatas.‎

Trio Ludwig, formed by brothers Abel and Arnau Tomàs and pianist Hyo-Sun Lim, Trio Arriaga ‎with Felipe Rodríguez, David Apellániz and Daniel Ligorio, and the young Trio Fortuny, with ‎Joel Bardolet, Pau Codina and Marc Heredia, invite us to appreciate Beethoven’s evolution in ‎composing for piano trio. If, in his three Op. 1 trios he had already demonstrated that he had ‎made the genre his own, moving away from the Haydn and Mozart models, his two Op. 70 ‎trios reflect a mature Beethoven capable of conceiving works full of detail. In the Op. 97 trio, ‎‎Archduke, which is undoubtedly his most refined composition, Beethoven achieves co-‎existence between the three instruments under equal conditions.‎

Siblings Vera and Claudio Martínez Mehner, specialists in the chamber music repertoire, and ‎the duo formed of Miguel Colom and Víctor del Valle will perform for us the 10 violin and ‎piano sonatas, in which Beethoven integrates the language of both instruments to perfection, ‎while experimenting with and expanding the form of the genre.‎

Finally, seasoned musicians Arnau Tomàs and Kennedy Moretti and the young duo Daniel ‎Claret and Àlex Ramírez will offer us an interpretation of the cello and piano sonatas. These ‎five works allow us to explore Beethoven’s different compositional periods, from the two Op. ‎‎5 sonatas of 1796, the first examples of this instrumental combination, to the two Op. 102 ‎sonatas of 1815, intimate works in which Beethoven perfectly integrates their various ‎elements.‎

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