Lutterman-Smith Chamber Music Recital

UAA faculty members John Lutterman, cello, and Timothy Smith, piano, team up once again for a powerful concert featuring some of the grandest works of the cello-piano repertoire. On the program: Beethoven's Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 102#2, and Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19. Specific notes on the program: Beethoven's Op. 102#2 is one of Beethoven's great late period compositions, quite challenging for both cellist and pianist. The work is said to be the "capstone of Beethoven's cello works." It features a difficult fugue in the last movement that some have described as "unlike anything else in cello literature." Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata: Rachmaninoff, the virtuoso pianist that he was, infused his own brilliant technique into the piano writing of this composition. The cello part is infused with dramatic expressive passages to complement the florid keyboard writing. The slow movement of this sonata is probably one of the most heartfelt and emotional compositions of the entire Romantic era in classical music.