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Lydia Shelley & Nicolas Stavy
Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Spring 2020 Season
Add to my Calendar 23-02-2020 18:30 23-02-2020 20:30 36 Lydia Shelley & Nicolas Stavy France-based Lydia Shelly and Nicolas Stavy offer a traversal of the cello sonata’s development, from Beethoven’s pioneering G minor sonata through to Shostakovich’s only essay in the genre, composed in 1934 just before Soviet authorities began censoring his work. ----- Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill, 5:30pm | The History of the Cello Sonata British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill returns to Conway Hall for a free pre-concert talk exploring the evening's programme of music. Growing out of the continuo sonata, the history of the cello sonata is one of the liberation of the cello. In early sonatas it doubled the keyboard, and we look at how the sonata moved towards the romantic, dramatic music of Brahms and Shostakovich. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – Cello Sonata no.2 in G minor, Op.5 no.2
Johannes Brahms – Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor, Op.38
~ Interval ~
Dmitry Shostakovich – Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40
Performers
Lydia Shelley – cello
Nicolas Stavy – piano
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Programme Note
France-based Lydia Shelly and Nicolas Stavy offer a traversal of the cello sonata’s development, from Beethoven’s pioneering G minor sonata through to Shostakovich’s only essay in the genre, composed in 1934 just before Soviet authorities began censoring his work.
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Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill, 5:30pm | The History of the Cello Sonata
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill returns to Conway Hall for a free pre-concert talk exploring the evening's programme of music.
Growing out of the continuo sonata, the history of the cello sonata is one of the liberation of the cello. In early sonatas it doubled the keyboard, and we look at how the sonata moved towards the romantic, dramatic music of Brahms and Shostakovich.
