Reencuentro Series - Brahms & Dvořák

Reencuentro Series - Brahms & Dvořák

Armenian-born cellist Hayk Sukiasyan and Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara performed at Centro Botín in Santander in July 2020. The concert opens with Johannes Brahms’s Cello sonata no. 1 in E minor, Op. 38. Brahms composed the first two movements of this sonata (Allegro non troppo and Allegretto quasi menuetto) in 1862. The final movement, Allegro, was written three years later. The second piece on the program is Antonín Dvořák's Klid ('Silent Woods') for cello and piano, B. 173 Op. 68 no. 5. This piece, initially published as Waldesruhe, is the fifth part of Dvořák's cycle “From the Bohemian Forest”, Op. 68 for piano four-hands, written in 1883. Eight years after the original, Dvořák arranged this piece for cello and piano. This version became so popular that the composer wrote yet another arrangement of it two years later, for cello and orchestra.