Julia Hagen / Alexander Ullman

FAST LANE – Young top musicians getting ready for a big career

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Julia Hagen
Julia Hagen © Simon Pauly
Alexander Ullmann
Alexander Ullmann © Matt Russell

»Chaos«, my foot!

Julia Hagen comes from a legendary Salzburg family of musicians. Her father, uncle and aunt founded the famous Hagen Quartet. Julia Hagen was born with a love for chamber music – a love that is expressed very clearly in the acclaimed cellist’s work with the English pianist Alexander Ullman. In this concert they perform both as a duo and as soloists, drawing a line from Romanticism to the modern age.

Hagen and Ullman demonstrate their craftsmanship with Robert Schumann’s wonderfully idyllic Fantasiestücke for cello and piano, and selected Preludes for solo cello written by the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina in 1974.

They also perform two cello sonatas. The Sonata in D minor was penned by Emilie Mayer, who was hailed as the »female Beethoven« in the 19th century. The Second Cello Sonata by Johannes Brahms, in contrast, is far better known and much loved – even though the music critic Hugo Wolf described it as »unpalatable« and pure »chaos«.

Performers

Julia Hagen violoncello

Alexander Ullman piano

Programme

Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (version for violoncello and piano)

Emilie Mayer
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in D minor, Op. 38

– Interval –

Sofia Gubaidulina
Ten Preludes for Solo Violoncello (selections)

Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in F major, Op. 99

Estimated end time

21:15

Series

FAST LANE

Young Artists

Promoter: HamburgMusik

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