Harmony Beyond Music is a series of chamber music concerts exploring themes of equality and diversity, featuring music from Bach to the present day, performed by Reiko Fujisawa and friends, and introduced by Peter Quantrill.

This concert is entitled “Beyond Black and White”.

Perhaps the most celebrated freedom fighter in classical music was Beethoven. He wrote the mighty ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata for the black virtuoso George Bridgetower, and on the scale of a concerto, a world away from the 18th-century charm of Joseph Boulogne’s sonata for lords and ladies. Two pieces by black American composers of our time remind us that making music in the chamber sphere is an act of constant dialogue both between musicians and with the world at large.

Programme

Joseph Boulogne, le Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Sonata in G minor op.1b no.3

Jesse Montgomery: Peace for violin and piano

William Grant Still: Suite for violin and piano

Interval

Beethoven: ‘Kreutzer’ Violin Sonata

Performers

Ofer Falk, violin

Reiko Fujisawa, piano

with introductions and insights from Peter Quantrill