Oeuvre: Sonate pour violon et piano en mi bémol majeur, Op.18

If ever there were an original programme at one of Switzerland’s esteemed summer festivals, this Festivalwanderung was it.

A rapt audience witnessed a very special musical event where superficial differences in musical style and personal presentation counted for nothing with musicianship of the highest order.

Augustin Dumay and Louis Lortie perform three masterpieces of the violin sonata repertoire, redeeming an eccentric performance of Strauss with a thrilling Franck

Im Schlusssatz stimmten die Gewichte: wo Caroline Widmann die wunderbare Kantilene vom Piano übernahm, ließ ihr Alexander Lonquich selbst in con sordino Passagen genügend Raum – klar der Höhepunkt vor der Pause!

There were piano arpeggios that could have come from the pen of no other composer