Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang

Nov 7, 2021
Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang

Overview

Superstar soloists Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos, who together “sound like a single organism” (Financial Times), present a defining work by J.S. Bach, along with two composers who fell under the master’s influence. Busoni’s Second Violin Sonata ends with a kaleidoscopic set of variations on a Bach chorale, while Shostakovich’s late-career sonata channels the grandeur and intensity in Bach’s music.

Program
Bach

Violin Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016

Busoni

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 36a

Shostakovich

Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 134

Stravinsky

Dithyrambe from Duo Concertante [Encore]

Performers