Solo Violin Recital: “Under a Tree, We Wander”

Joshua Peckins, Violin

BACH - SONATA NO 1 IN A MINOR

PAGANINI - CAPRICE NO 10

DU YUN - UNDER A TREE, AN UDATTA FOR VIOLIN AND TAPE

SHIRISH KORDE - SVARA YANTRA

WOLFGANG VON SCHWEINITZ - PLAINSOUND ETUDE

"Under a Tree, We Wander" explores the many musics and sounds of human feeling and creation. Bach's glorious Solo Sonata in A Minor - an exquisite example from the High Baroque, with sublime slow movements, a dazzling fugue, and a fiery finish! - is juxtaposed with Schweinitz's Plainsound Etude, a piece that explores notes between the notes, expanding upon the conventional 12-note musical scale in a way that is both provocative and illuminating when considered against Bach's music. Pulitzer Prize winning composer Du Yun's "Under a Tree, an Udatta for Violin and Tape" combines an electronic recording of Vedic Sanskrit chanting with a live performance of a cadenza-like violin solo, to a shockingly vivid and powerfully evocative effect. Shirish Korde's "Svara Yantra" was originally written as a violin concerto, combining Indian and Western classical music aesthetics. On this program, the first movement is presented as a solo violin piece with a tanpura drone, arranged by the composer. Paganini's Caprice No 10 has been astonishing audiences with its virtuosity since its premiere by the legendary virtuoso Paganini himself. "Under a Tree, We Wander" offers an incredibly broad variety of musical styles and sounds, and demonstrates the vast range of expression and aesthetics that are possible on the classical violin - and in the human imagination.

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