An excerpt from the Wigmore Hall recital on 21.02.21

L van Beethoven: Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano no. 7 in C minor, op. 30 no. 2 @LanaTrotovsek , violin Maria Canyigueral, piano 00:00 Allegro con brio 09:09 Adagio cantabile 19:45 Scherzo: Allegro 23:32 Finale: Allegro; Presto The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, the second of his Op. 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. Live recording from the complete cycle at the 68th Ljubljana Festival, 3.8.2020 Sound engineering: Hedone records http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris

Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano No.1 in F minor, Op.80 00:00 Andante assai 07:19 Allegro brusco 15:19 Andante 23:56 Allegrissimo - Andante assai, come prima Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London 2019. http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris

L van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano Op.24, No.5 in F major "Spring" Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano 00:00 Allegro 09:53 Adagio molto espressivo 16:08 Scherzo: Allegro molto 17:30 Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring Sonata" (Frühlingssonate), and was published in 1801. It was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom Beethoven also dedicated two other works of the same year—the String Quintet in C major, Op. 29 and the Violin Sonata No. 4—as well as his later Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. Live recording from the complete cycle at the 68th Ljubljana Festival, 3.8.2020 Sound engineering: Hedone records http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris

L van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No.6 in A major, Op.30 no.1 Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano The Violin Sonata No. 6 of Ludwig van Beethoven in A major, the first of his Opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. It has three movements: 00:00 Allegro 08:05 Adagio molto espressivo 16:05 Allegretto con variazioni http://www.lanaviolin.com http://www.mariacanyigueral.co.uk http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris

@LanaTrotovsek , violin Maria Canyigueral, piano Recorded live at Leamington Music Festival in April 2022

Cesar Franck: Violin Sonata in A major Lana Trotovsek, violin Maria Canyigueral, piano Live performance from Casa de Cultura de Girona Recorded by Hedone Records The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best-known compositions, and considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. It is an amalgam of his rich native harmonic language with the Classical traditions he valued highly, held together in a cyclic framework. The Violin Sonata in A was written in 1886, when Franck was 63, as a wedding present for the 31-year-old violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.[1] Twenty-eight years earlier, in 1858, Franck had promised a violin sonata for Cosima von Bülow. This never saw the light of day, but it has been speculated that whatever work Franck had done on that piece was put aside and eventually ended up in the sonata he wrote for Ysaÿe in 1886. Franck presented the work to Ysaÿe on the morning of his wedding on 26 September 1886. After a hurried rehearsal, Ysaÿe and the pianist Léontine Bordes-Pène, a wedding guest, played the Sonata to the other wedding guests. The Sonata was given its first public concert performance on 16 December of that year, at the Musée Moderne de Peinture (Museum of Modern Painting) at Brussels. Eugène Ysaÿe and Léontine Bordes-Pène were again the performers. The Sonata was the final item in a long program that started at 3 pm. When it came time for the Sonata, it was now dusk and the gallery was bathed in gloom, but the gallery authorities permitted no artificial light whatsoever. Initially, it seemed the Sonata would have to be abandoned, but Ysaÿe and Bordes-Pène decided to press on regardless. In the event, they had to play the last three movements in virtual darkness, from memory. Vincent d'Indy, who was present, recorded these details of the event. Ysaÿe kept the Violin Sonata in his repertoire for the next 40 years of his life. His championing of the Sonata contributed to the public recognition of Franck as a major composer. This recognition was quite belated, as Franck would be dead within 4 years, and did not have his first unqualified public success until the last year of his life (19 April 1890, at the Salle Pleyel, where his String Quartet in D was premiered). The Franck Sonata regularly appears on concert programs and on recordings and is in the core repertoire of all major violinists. Jascha Heifetz played the Sonata in A at his final recital in 1972.

L.van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.9 Op.47, Kreutzer Lana Trotovsek, violin www.lanaviolin.com Maria Canyigueral, piano www.mariacanyigueral.co.uk 00:00 Adagio sostenuto – Presto 12:10 Andante con variazioni 26:38 Presto Live recording from Wigmore Hall, 22.07.2019 The Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a sonata for piano and violin notable for its technical difficulty, unusual length, and emotional scope. It is commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata after the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, to whom it was ultimately dedicated, but who thoroughly disliked the piece and refused to play it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutzer_Sonata ) The sonata was originally dedicated to the violinist George Bridgetower (1778–1860) as "Sonata mulattica composta per il mulatto Brischdauer [Bridgetower], gran pazzo e compositore mulattico" (Mulatto Sonata composed for the mulatto Brischdauer, great madman mulatto composer). Shortly after completion the work was premiered by Bridgetower and Beethoven on 24 May 1803 at the Augarten Theatre at a concert that started at the unusually early hour of 8:00 am. Bridgetower sight-read the sonata; he had never seen the work before, and there had been no time for any rehearsal. After the premiere performance Beethoven and Bridgetower fell out: while the two were drinking, Bridgetower apparently insulted the morals of a woman whom Beethoven cherished. Enraged, Beethoven removed the dedication of the piece, dedicating it instead to Rodolphe Kreutzer, who was considered the finest violinist of the day. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreutzer_Sonata ) http://www.hedonerecords.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/borisbizjak https://www.facebook.com/boris.bizjak.5 Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=bizjakboris