Brahms on the Bluff, Concert III: The Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano

The violin and violinists played an important role throughout Brahms’s life and musical development. The great Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim was a major persona throughout Brahms’s life and became one of his closest friends and confidantes. The thread of their mutual influence is woven through this entire program. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster David McCarroll, following up on his Bluff Series debut last season, partners with David Allen Wehr for this traversal of the three sonatas for violin and piano, one of music’s most challenging and rewarding monuments. Duquesne Artist-in-Residence and world opera star Marianne Cornetti graces the stage of her alma mater, joined by violist David Harding, with their interpretation of the “Viola Songs,” which marked Brahms’s attempt at healing an unusual rift in his relationship with Joachim.

Pre-concert conversation at 2:30p with Nicole Vilkner

 Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano

David McCarroll, violin

David Allen Wehr, piano

 Two Songs, op. 91

Marianne Cornetti, mezzo-soprano

David Harding, viola

David Allen Wehr, piano