Please join Mariko Kaneda, piano, and Alexander Goldberg, violin, for the opening concert of the 2026-2027 Performing Arts season in Sanborn Hall’s Jemison Auditorium.
Mariko and Alexander will present a recital of two titans of the violin-piano duo repertoire, Franz Schubert’s “Grand Duo” sonata in A major, D. 574, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47—the “Kreutzer Sonata.”
Despite sharing the key of A major, the two works present very different emotional worlds. Schubert, ever the Lieder-writer, combines melancholy cantilenas with folkish dance; Beethoven, firmly in his heroic period, conjures fiery virtuosity, spinning an epic sonata of symphonic scale from a primordial introduction deceiving in its simplicity.
This concert is free to attend for all; we hope to see you there!
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Performing Arts Department
Contact: Eliza Finley at lahill@owu.edu