Idées transformées – Julia Fischer I

Some music fans might still remember Julia Fischer participating as a child in the masterclasses initiated by Kurt Pahlen in 1978, playing her first concerts in the Lenk Church. What a journey Julia Fischer has embarked on since these days – today, she is a professor herself. As this year’s Artist in Residence, Julia Fischer is curating a four-part concert series at the Festival. In the first programme, we can anticipate the youthful Beethoven as well as Khachaturian, next to the famous Violin Sonata by César Franck, rumoured to have inspired Marcel Proust to conceive his enigmatic (and fictional) Vinteul Sonata in his globally acclaimed novel In Search of Lost Time. Providing a counterpoint in the programme, we will experience Eugène Ysaÿe’s Andante for Violin and Piano. When composer Vincent d’Indy attended the premiere on December 16, 1886, in Brussels, it quickly became apparent to him: the work could serve as a model for the first cyclical use of themes in sonata form, vividly illustrating how musical ideas continually transform across the pages of the score.