Gautier Capuçon with Jérôme Ducros Gabriel Fauré Jules Massenet
Gautier Capuçon with Jérôme Ducros Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 8:00pm This is the 828th concert in Koerner Hall Gautier Capuçon, cello Jérôme Ducros, piano PROGRAM Gabriel Fauré: Élégie, op. 24 Jules Massenet: “Méditation” from Thaïs Johannes Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, op. 38 I. Allegro non troppo II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto III. Allegro INTERMISSION Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile in D Major Sergei Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G Minor, op. 19 I. Lento - Allegro moderato II. Allegro scherzando III. Andante IV. Allegro mosso Gabriel Fauré Born in Pamiers, Ariège, France, May 12, 1845; died in Paris, France, November 4, 1924 Élégie, op. 24 (1880) After successfully completing two chamber works, the First Violin Sonata and the Piano Quartet, French composer Gabriel Fauré turned his thoughts to a cello sonata, starting, as was his custom, with the slow movement. The resulting Élégie was first played privately. “My cello piece was very well received’, Fauré wrote to his publisher, “and that greatly encourages me to go on and finish the whole sonata.” Three years later, however, the elegantly sombre, at first inward-looking, later impassioned Élégie was published as a separate piece and it was to be almost four decades before Fauré composed the first of his two cello sonatas. Fauré subsequently orchestrated the Élégie in 1895. Its deeply sorrowful theme became the basis for an extended improvisation by the organist at Fauré’s state funeral in 1924. Jules Massenet Born in Montaud, Saint-Étienne, France, May 12, 1842; died in Paris, France, August 13, 1912 “Méditation” from Thaïs (1894) First performed at the Paris Opéra in March 1894, Thaïs is the 24th of French composer Jules Massenet’s three dozen operas.
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