Elder After Hours - Beauty and Power

Timo-Veikko Valve  cello
Aura Go  piano

Beethoven  Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2
Beethoven  Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Webern  Cello Sonata
Webern  Two Pieces for Cello and Piano
Webern  Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11
Beethoven  Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 5 in D major, Op. 102 No. 2

Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano span the full arc of the composer’s creative life, from the young man mastering traditions in order to break them, to the transcendent inner beauty of the mature master. In this special Elder After Hours concert, Timo-Veikko Valve (Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra) and Aura Go (Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University) perform three of these visionary works, paired with the intensity of Anton Webern’s twentieth-century works for cello and piano: music of immense scope distilled into mere moments of beauty and power.