Program

Antonin Dvorak, Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100, B. 183 (1893)
Edvard Grieg, Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 (1887)
William Dawson: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major (1927)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin (1972)

Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang return to the Gardner for the first time since their dazzling debut in 2019, taking a kaleidoscopic dive into composers’ folk music inspirations. The musical DNA of Spirituals can be heard in Dawson’s Violin Sonata No. 1, which receives its modern-day premiere. Dvorak’s Sonatina was written during the composer’s sojourn in the US, where he fell in love with the musical traditions of Black and Indigenous Americans. Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms seamlessly weaves blues harmonies and soloistic panache, and Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 looks back at the composer’s Norwegian roots while looking towards broader horizons.