5. „MUSICAL GEMS OF OLD EUROPE: PRE-CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL MASTERS”

The programme of the concert will acquaint the audience with the unique sonatas written by Christlieb Siegmund Binder, a Dresden composer and instrumentalist who remained forgotten for the past two hundred years. These pieces are full of expression, passion and incredible virtuoso-like „acrobatics”. On the one hand they are still rooted in baroque, on the other, they present elements of the transitional and classical styles. These days Binder is considered to be one of the most interesting Dresden composers of the late 18th century, comparable to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. During the concert the Sonata in A minor H.85 by the aforementioned son of J.S. Bach – an outstanding representative of the galant, Sturm und Drang and Empfindsamkeit styles – will also be performed, as will be the works of his brother, Johann Christian Bach. Both of these artistic personalities pioneered new directions in music and greatly influenced the leading composers of the following eras, including Ludvig van Beethoven. This is why the concert cannot go without the Sonata in D major op. 6 for four hands, the last of the so called Vienna Classics, originally written for harpsichord. It includes a reworked version of the „fate” motif from the 5th Symphony, except in this version it sounds happy, as can be expected from the key of the piece.