About this concert
For All Hallows’ Eve, Siwoo Kim gives a recital of devilish virtuosity, from Tartini’s “Devil’s Trill” Sonata to Paganini’s La Campanella.
Each work carries a shadow: Tartini said the Devil played him the sonata in a dream, Ysaÿe’s Second Sonata is haunted by the Dies irae, Schubert’s Erlkönig, in Ernst’s arrangement, follows a father racing to save his son, and Paganini was rumored to have made a pact with Satan. A reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres precedes the concert.
Program
- Passacaglia “Guardian Angel”Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
- Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 in A minor “Obsession”Eugène Ysaÿe
- Der ErlkönigFranz Schubert, arr. Ernst
- Caprice for Solo Violin No. 2Salvatore Sciarrino
- “The Devil’s Trill” SonataGiuseppe Tartini, arr. Kreisler
- Melodie from “Orpheus and Eurydice”Christoph Willibald Gluck, arr. Kreisler
- La CampanellaNiccolò Paganini, arr. Kreisler
Performers
- Siwoo KimViolin
- Christopher SchmittPiano
