Performance Overview

School of Music faculty members Ida Bieler, violin, and Dmitri Vorobiev, piano, make three “stops” along the grand-duo-journey. Starting with Bach, it’s his “E-Major Sonata,” progressing from a monumental adagio to a dazzling finale. Our “midpoint” is Beethoven’s “Kreutzer,” the most imposing, longest, and most difficult among his 10 sonatas, spiked with triple and quadruple stops. The concert concludes with Prokofiev’s 1944 Sonata No. 1, crowned with the Stalin Prize and hailed by one-and-all as “brilliant.” He himself described its complex rhythms and various moods as severe, turbulent, gentle. It’s a grand night for duos!