Youth & Fireworks
Is this the greatest violin sonata ever written? Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson launch their Beethoven odyssey with the spectacular ‘Kreutzer’ sonata – a superstar violinist and a radical composer testing the outer limits of chamber music itself. But they begin with Ludwig in a more intimate mood. Two of Beethoven’s youthful masterpieces create an elegant setting for the fireworks to come.