Facebook Livestream: May 11, 12:00p.m. ET

Youjin Lee opens her graduation recital with Paul Hindemith’s restless Sonata in E-flat major. Hindemith began composing this work while serving in the German army on the Western Front. He wrote in his wartime diary that “Music reached out beyond political boundaries, national hatred and the horrors of war.” The first half of the recital closes with Eugène Ysaÿe’s enthralling and passionate Sonata in D minor. The second half of the concert features Johannes Brahms’s final violin sonata, the stormy Sonata No. 3 in D minor. Twentieth-century virtuoso Fritz Kreisler’s Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta provides a warm and lush finale.

Program (subject to change)
PAUL HINDEMITH Sonata in E-flat, Op. 11, No. 1
EUGÈNE YSAŸE Sonata in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3 (“Ballade”)
JOHANNES BRAHMS Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
FRITZ KREISLER Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta

About Curtis recitals: Students perform solo and chamber works from locations around the globe in new performances available each week. Free registration is required via Curtis’s Performance Calendar and grants on-demand access to each recital.

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