Pianist Haochen Zhang, who won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 19 and has been described as “an artist of rare talent” by Gramophone, gives a solo recital featuring two emotional piano sonatas: Schumann’s first, a deeply personal work that the composer dedicated to his future wife, Clara Wieck, and Beethoven’s next-to-last, which the French composer Vincent d’Indy described as “an exertion of will to banish suffering.” 

BEETHOVEN Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 (1821) 

SCHUMANN Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Op. 11 (1833-35)  

Approximate length: 1 hour 

Generously sponsored by the Siegelaar-Bryer Foundation

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