Vilde Frang and Michail Lifits

0:00:13 > 0:00:15Welcome to Cadogan Hall in London,

0:00:15 > 0:00:18home of chamber music at the BBC Proms.

0:00:18 > 0:00:21Today, the young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang

0:00:21 > 0:00:23and German pianist Michail Lifits.

0:00:23 > 0:00:25They are going to play Ravel later

0:00:25 > 0:00:28and music by the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce,

0:00:28 > 0:00:30but it's Mozart to begin.

0:00:33 > 0:00:36His Violin Sonata in G.

0:00:36 > 0:00:39He composed it in 1781, during his last few months

0:00:39 > 0:00:43working for his hated employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg.

0:00:43 > 0:00:45It was written for the celebrations

0:00:45 > 0:00:49around the accession of the new Austrian Emperor, Joseph II.

0:00:49 > 0:00:51Mozart himself played the piano part of the premiere.

0:00:51 > 0:00:54He was under such pressure to complete the work

0:00:54 > 0:00:56he had no time to write down the music

0:00:56 > 0:00:57and had to play from memory.

0:17:11 > 0:17:12APPLAUSE

0:17:16 > 0:17:19Mozart's Violin Sonata K.379,

0:17:19 > 0:17:23played here at the BBC Proms by Vilde Frang and Michail Lifits.

0:17:23 > 0:17:27They are going to take us to Paris next, in the 1920s,

0:17:27 > 0:17:28for music by Ravel.

0:17:33 > 0:17:34His sonata, in which he said

0:17:34 > 0:17:39he wanted to prove the essential incompatibility of violin and piano.

0:17:39 > 0:17:42"I am setting out to contrast the two instruments", he said,

0:17:42 > 0:17:44"not have them cooperate."

0:17:46 > 0:17:49The piece is much inspired by American jazz.

0:17:49 > 0:17:51This is the Second Movement, Blues.

0:23:37 > 0:23:40APPLAUSE

0:23:45 > 0:23:48The Second Movement of Ravel's Second Violin Sonata.

0:23:48 > 0:23:52Vilde Frang and Michail Lifits finished the Cadogan Hall Prom

0:23:52 > 0:23:54with an ever-perfect encore,

0:23:54 > 0:23:56Estrellita, Little Star,

0:23:56 > 0:24:00written a century ago by the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce.

0:27:06 > 0:27:09APPLAUSE