Maria Ioudenitch & Roman Borisov

Maria Ioudenitch and Roman Borisov present works for violin and piano from the 19th and 20th centuries by Lili Boulanger, Sergei Prokofiev, Claude Debussy and Johannes Brahms.

Maria Ioudenitch presents three different approaches to the violin sonata, accompanied by Roman Borisov on the piano. Sergei Prokofiev was inspired by George Frideric Handel's music to compose his first sonata for violin and piano. He composed the sonata, in which he combines chamber music intimacy with quasi-symphonic expression, during the Second World War. Ten years earlier, Claude Debussy had also created a sonata for violin and piano while the First World War was raging in Europe. Debussy thus made an emphatic declaration of war on the German Romantic musical tradition: "Nothing can excuse the fact that we have forgotten the tradition of the works of a Rameau, which is almost unique in the wealth of its ingenious ideas," he wrote at the time. One of the figures from whom Debussy wanted to distinguish himself artistically was Johannes Brahms. In his Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3, he incorporated, among other things, musical impressions of the Hungarian Csárdás bands that played for dancing in the Vienna Prater.