Artists

Jolente De Maeyer, violin

Nikolaas Kende, piano

Programme

A Love Affair

Clara Schumann

Three Romances for violin and piano, Op. 22

Johannes Brahms

Scherzo for violin and piano in C minor, WoO 2

Robert Schumann

Arabeske for piano, Op. 18

Clara Schumann

Romance for piano, Op. 21 No. 1

Johannes Brahms

Intermezzo for piano, Op. 118 No. 2

Robert Schumann

Sonata for violin and piano No. 1, Op. 105

Running time: 60 minutos without intermission

From the music duet to the loving trio

The duets formed by violin and piano bring us back to the origins of chamber music. Mozart and Beethoven set out the guidelines for a long term tradition which was continued by composers such as Schumann, whose passionate Sonata Op. 105 was premiered by the violinist Ferdinand David and his wife, Clara, author of the exuberant Three Romances which were praised even by the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms, friend of the couple and possibly her lover, displayed a refined harmonic vocabulary in his Scherzo (third part of the famous ‘F.A.E.’ Sonata) together with a stunning capacity to create densities and textures.