Violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Daniil Trifonov dazzled an Orchestra Hall audience Wednesday night, writes WTTW News theater critic Hedy Weiss. The musicians, in top form, even treated the enthusiastic crowd to two encores.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov and violinist Joshua Bell performed at Orchestra Hall on March 29, 2023.
The concert opened with Beethoven’s “Violin Sonata No. 1 in D. Major,” an early work in which Beethoven gave equal participation to the pianist. In fact, as performed by Bell and Trifonov, it had the feel of an animated and wonderfully fluid conversation — from its opening Allegro con brio movement, to the lyrical beginning of its second movement, which bursts open with a stormy intensity but ends in a lyrical mode.
The piece opens with low, slow notes on the piano, with an interesting response by the violin and a vivid, decidedly modern sense of tension and inner turmoil throughout. There was a pounding from the piano and then a lightness — an intriguing mix of danger and innocence along with plucks on the violin. The work’s third movement had a dreamy beauty captured by the different voices of the two instruments, but this lightness also ceded to passages of great strength.
To close the program there was a stunningly beautiful performance of Cesar Franck’s 1886 “Violin Sonata in A Major,” a widely known masterwork by the French Romantic composer who wrote it as a wedding gift for the fabled violinist Eugene Ysaye.
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