This concert, one of a series of three celebrating Viennese music, has been conceived and will be performed by Prach Boondiskulchok and Jenna Sherry in collaboration with the Guildhall School for Music and Drama. The concerts intend to explore Viennese chamber music from two particularly interesting moments of musical and political change and transition: the period between the Classical and Romantic periods in Vienna and the period when composers of the Second Viennese School deliberately abandoned musical Romanticism in favour of a potent and compact new language. Taking place in various venues across London, this series will feature masterpieces from these periods in the chamber genres of duo, trio, quartet, and Lieder.

Part II
Transformation of Expression – from Beethoven to Webern

Jenna Sherry – Violin
Prach Boondiskulchok – Piano
The Geminiani Quartet

Although Beethoven inherited the classical tradition, his musical expression surpassed its confines. The Violin Sonata in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 and the String Quartet Op. 95 are two works where Beethoven's explosive voice emerged in its full maturity, turning the musical tide towards the century to come. In the wake of a century dominated by Beethoven's influence, Anton Webern and composers of the Second Viennese School rebelled in the opposite direction towards the potent and compact expression manifest in the Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7, and Five pieces for String Quartet.