Christian Tetzlaff (violin) December 4, 2008

Program:
Bach: Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003; Bach: Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004; Bach: Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005; Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006

"People should come to a concert to hear something completely different" (Christian Tetzlaff)

Hailed by the New York Times as a violinist with a "poignant sense of inner life and emotional authenticity," Christian Tetzlaff joins PCMS at the Perelman Theater on Thursday, December 4 at 8PM. Tetzlaff will perform two Bach partitas and two sonatas, music which he knows deeply and for which his performances are already widely praised: ''The great chaconne at the end of the Partita in D minor is a death dance,'' Tetzlaff says, ''until the middle section, when there is a glimpse of utopia, which for Bach, of course, would be heaven, the afterlife. Then, in the first movement of the next work, the Adagio of the Sonata in C major, the music has the same meter and same rhythm as the chaconne. Already in the fourth measure we turn back to D minor. The first full cadence is in G minor, and the piece ends in A minor. We are in no man's land."

Christian Tetzlaff has recorded for Virgin Classics and other labels, with releases ranging from the Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas to the Mozart Violin Conceros with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, from the Dvorak to Tchaikovsky. His technique, at once inspiring, subtle, and freely interpretative, is "grounded in a score yet at the same time wildly imaginative" (The New York Times).

For more information on Christian Tetzlaff, please visit http://www.christian-tetzlaff.de/index_en.html, or www.cmartists.com.

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Get to know Christian Tetzlaff!

Watch: In this video clip, watch Christian Tetzlaff, along with Christoph von Dohnanyi as the conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, perform Mozart's popular "Strassburg" violin concerto, No. 3 in G Major.

Listen and Connect: Pianist Konstantin Lifschitz is in NPR's Studio 4A to play a Liszt transcription of Paganini's Caprice No. 1. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff follows with the Paganini original. Listen to Tetzlaff's performance on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4984749