PROGRAM

Hilary Hahn channels Mozart

Ice Breaker: Music has the power to capture a boundless range of time and experience—from the most urgent and impassioned to the most fleeting and delicate. This week renowned American violinist Hilary Hahn joins forces her distinguished colleague and longtime friend, pianist Natalie Zhu, for works that seek out this truth in multiple ways. Anchoring their program is Ernst Bloch's fearlessly probing sonata for violin, a work Ms. Hahn likens at one point to a "frozen landscape when the ice is about to break." The duo also brings remarkable intensity and maturity to music by Mozart and Stravinsky.

Listen to the performance

MUSIC PLAYED IN THE PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata No. 25, K. 301
—I. Allegro con spirito
—II. Allegro
Ernst Bloch: Sonata
—I. Agitato
—II. Molto quieto
—III. Moderato
Igor Stravinsky: Chanson Russe: Russian Maiden's Song