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Tabea Zimmermann, viola
Javier Perianes, piano

Considered perhaps the world’s greatest violist, Tabea Zimmermann makes a very rare American recital tour this spring with Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, stopping at just a few fortunate venues. Known for enthralling, revelatory performances and recordings, the artists will be performing masterworks of the viola repertoire: Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, the poignant Lachrymae by Benjamin Britten, based on a song by John Dowland, and Shostakovich’s op. 147 sonata, completed a month before the composer’s death. Viola aficionados will enjoy the chance to hear Zimmermann give a brief performance on the Library’s remarkable Stradivari Fulton, ex-Baird, Tuscan-Medici viola, made in 1690.  

Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists 

6:30 pm, Whittall Pavilion 

Tickets available Wed., January 14 at 10 a.m. 

Program 

ROBERT SCHUMANN 

Fantasiestücke, op. 73 

 

JOHANNES BRAHMS 

Sonata in E-flat major, op. 120/2 

 

BENJAMIN BRITTEN 

Lachrymae 

 

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH 

Sonata for Viola and Piano in C major, op. 147