https://claraplaysviolin.com/reels daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1763575812046-CJA2MAIB0PA52P9VJ9ZA/image-asset.jpg Watch - Amy Beach - Romance for Violin and Piano 4K | Clara Haneul Yoon (vn) & Megan Chang (pn) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1763575812046-CJA2MAIB0PA52P9VJ9ZA/image-asset.jpg Watch - Amy Beach - Romance for Violin and Piano 4K | Clara Haneul Yoon (vn) & Megan Chang (pn) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1758757892824-HAP5HGPS2Y1E0STVWFDW/image-asset.jpeg Watch - 4K Gershwin/Heifetz's "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess | Clara Haneul Yoon (vn) & Megan Chang (pn) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1758826607857-OD8NVJSSFS7E20D5AXTM/image-asset.jpg Watch - A. Piazzolla: Nightclub 1960 (from Histoire du Tango) 4K | Clara Haneul Yoon (vn) & Megan Chang (pn) Megan Chang - piano | http://www.meganchang.ca/ Clara Haneul Yoon - violin | https://claraplaysviolin.com/ Audio - Ricci Ebron | https://ricci.ebron.com Video Drew Henderson | ‪@DrewHendersonGuitar‬ It isn't an exaggeration to say that Argentine composer, Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) revolutionized the tango, transforming it from a popular, beloved dance tradition into a concert genre of international stature. Following his advanced compositional studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, who encouraged him to embrace the tango as his authentic artistic voice, Piazzolla began blending the many rhythms and melodies of traditional tango with the rich chords and progressions of jazz, all within the formal structures of classical music. The result was nuevo tango, a style that preserves tango’s emotional intensity, while broadening its harmonic and formal scope. Originally written for violin and guitar, "Nightclub 1960" is the third of four movements in Piazzolla’s suite Histoire du Tango. ⭐ Most heartfelt thanks to Ricci and Drew for braving the sweltering heat, you are the true heroes of the day. For the best listening experience, headphones are recommended to catch every twist and turn of Piazzolla’s intricate textures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1758752980408-4A980HV8UIVOF7Y9NPTR/image-asset.jpg Watch - 4K Gershwin/Heifetz's "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess | Clara Haneul Yoon (vn) & Megan Chang (pn) Megan Chang - piano | http://www.meganchang.ca/ Clara Haneul Yoon - violin | https://claraplaysviolin.com/ Audio - Ricci Ebron | https://ricci.ebron.com Video - Drew Henderson | / ‪@DrewHendersonGuitar‬ Originally composed in 1934 for the opera Porgy and Bess, "Summertime" is one of Gershwin’s most celebrated songs. It’s remarkable how a six-note melody can convey such timelessness. Here's to summer. For the best listening experience, headphones are recommended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1763575969938-1J070B6BO71XC5CX0HOA/image-asset.jpeg Watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1746477054956-TRDY3IQPP7BWBYLZ4VPJ/image-asset.jpeg Watch - Eric Whitacre Five Hebrew Love Songs https://annexsingers.com/ I. TEMUNÁ (A PICTURE) Temuná belibí charuntá; Nodédet beyn ór uveyn ófel: Min dmamá shekazó et guféch kach otá, Usaréch al pańa’ich kach nófel. A picture is engraved in my heart; Moving between light and darkness: A sort of silence envelopes your body, And your hair falls upon your face just so. II. KALÁ KALLÁ (LIGHT BRIDE) Kalá kallá Kulá shelí, U’ve kalút Tishákhílí! Light bride She is all mine, And lightly She will kiss me! III. LARÓV (MOSTLY) “Laróv,” amár gag la’shama’im, “Hamerchák shebeynéynu hu ad; Ach lifnéy zman alu lechán shna’im, Uveynéynu nishár sentiméter echad” “Mostly,” said the roof to the sky, “the distance between you and I is endlessness; But a while ago two came up here, And only one centimeter was left between us.” IV. ÉYZE SHÉLEG! (WHAT SNOW!) Ézye shéleg! Kmo chalomót ktaníim Noflím mehashamá im. What snow! Like little dreams Falling from the sky. V. RAKÚT (TENDERNESS) Hu hayá malé rakút; Hi haytá kasha Vechól káma shenistá lehishaér kach, Pashút, uvlí sibá tová, Lakách otá el toch atzmó, Veheníach Bamakóm hachí rach. He was full of tenderness; She was very hard. And as much as she tried to stay thus, Simply, and with no good reason, He took her into himself, And set her down In the softest, softest place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1746477331549-IY50EYUG8YFPXYZOEHU1/image-asset.jpg Watch - Piazzolla Invierno Porteno (Winter) - Piano Trio Piano - Megan Chang http://www.meganchang.ca/ Violin - Clara Haneul Yoon https://claraplaysviolin.com/ Cello - Julia Tom https://juliatom.com/ Recorded live at Holy Trinity 7-24-2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1692492536248-LV7Z8QFXHM9THRBS3EEH/image-asset.jpeg Watch - Trinity Concert 7-24-23 Piano - Megan Chang http://www.meganchang.ca/ Violin - Clara Haneul Yoon https://claraplaysviolin.com/ Cello - Julia Tom https://juliatom.com/ Recorded live at Holy Trinity 7-24-2023 Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla - The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Arranged for piano trio by José Bragato 1. Verano Porteño (summer) 2. Otoño Porteño (autumn) 3. Invierno Porteño (winter) Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Piano Trio no.1 in d-minor, op.49 (1839/40) I. Molto allegro ed agitato II. Andante con moto tranquillo III. Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace IV. Finale: Allegro assai appassionato https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1508189021288-7JVCFX8OM6G50Q2W6HSS/image-asset.jpeg Watch - Paganini Caprice No. 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1508188981023-W2LE1FHT4QDU7TXBQQOG/image-asset.jpeg Watch - Paganini Caprice #11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1653341464514-8VPXWIWGHEZ4AKH51DL3/image-asset.jpeg Watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1653340591732-QPFXBPDU6NYPIF8JKGYD/image-asset.jpeg Watch - Blackbird (4 Violins) - The Beatles https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/59e5220a6957da3f70e649b8/628bfbc167faba20b4d5a143/1773798469024/ Watch - Mozart Violin Sonata K.454 & Faure Violin Sonata No. 1 Mozart Violin Sonata K.454 & Faure Violin Sonata No. 1 M.M. Recital 2012 Morse Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e51592692ebe61042f4a35/1508188720876-KZPKB876V4D5HX6G53EU/image-asset.jpeg Watch - Leclair Sonata for Two Violins in E minor, No.5, II Gavotta gracioso Vn I - Clara Haneul Yoon Vn II - Madison Marcucci   II. Gavotta gracioso, Andante Leclair was born in Lyon, but left to study dance and the violin in Turin. In 1716, he married Marie-Rose Casthanie, a dancer, who died about 1728. Leclair had returned to Paris in 1723, where he played at the Concert Spirituel, the main semi-public music series. His works included several sonatas for flute and basso continuo. In 1730, Leclair married for the second time. His new wife was the engraver Louise Roussel, who prepared for printing all his works from Opus 2 onward. Named ordinaire de la musique by Louis XV in 1733, Leclair resigned in 1737 after a clash with Guidon over control of the musique du Roy. Leclair was then engaged by the Princess of Orange – a fine harpsichordist and former student of Handel – and from 1738 until 1743, served three months annually at her court in Leeuwarden, working in The Hague as a private maestro di cappella for the remainder of the year. He returned to Paris in 1743. His only opera Scylla et Glaucus was first performed in 1746 and has been revived in modern times. From 1740 until his death in Paris, he served the Duke of Gramont, in whose private theatre at Puteaux were staged works to which Leclair is known to have contributed. They included, in particular, a lengthy divertissement for the comedy Les danger des épreuves (1749) and one complete entrée, Apollon et Climène, for the opéra-ballet by various authors, Les amusemens lyriques (1750).[1] Leclair was renowned as a violinist and as a composer. He successfully drew upon all of Europe's national styles. 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However, with the composer's permission, the sonata was performed for the first time three weeks earlier in Moscow, on November 27, 1932, by Dmitry Tsyganov and Vladimir Shirinsky, both members of the Beethoven Quartet. The performance at the Triton concert was the "Western premiere". The performers on that occasion were Robert Soetens - for whom Prokofiev would compose his second violin concerto in 1935 - and Samuel Dushkin, for whom Stravinsky composed his violin concerto a few months earlier.[1] The work was published in 1932 in Berlin by Éditions Russes de Musique. In his 1941 autobiography, Prokofiev wrote about the origin of the work: Listening to bad music sometimes inspires good ideas... After once hearing an unsuccessful piece [unspecified] for two violins without piano accompaniment, it struck me that in spite of the apparent limitations of such a duet one could make it interesting enough to listen to for ten or fifteen minutes....[1] Regarding the Paris premiere, Prokofiev further adds: [My] Sonata was presented at the official opening of Triton, which chanced to coincide with the premiere of my ballet On the Dnieper. 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The Violin Sonata in A was written in 1886, when César 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 appeared; 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.[2] 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,[3] played the Sonata to the other wedding guests.[4] The Sonata was given its first public concert performance on 16 December of that year,[2] at the Musée Moderne de Peinture (Museum of Modern Painting) in Brussels.[5] Ysaÿe and Bordes-Pène were again the performers.[2][6] The Sonata was the final item in a long program that started at 3 pm. When the time arrived for the Sonata, dusk had fallen 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 continue regardless. They had to play the last three movements from memory in virtual darkness. Vincent d'Indy, who was present, recorded these details of the event.[7][8] 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.[9] This recognition was quite belated; Franck died within four years of the Sonata's public première, and did not have his first unqualified public success until the last year of his life (on 19 April 1890, at the Salle Pleyel, where his String Quartet in D was premiered).[10] The Sonata in A regularly appears on concert programs and on recordings, and is in the core repertoire of all major violinists. Jascha Heifetz played it at his final recital in 1972.[11] The piece is further notable for the difficulty of its piano part, when compared with most of the chamber repertoire. 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