Mozart & Stravinsky: Works for Violin & Piano Esther Hoppe & Alasdair Beatson

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 454:
• 1 Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 454: I. Largo - Allegro 07:23
• 2 Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 454: II. Andante 07:53
• 3 Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 454: III. Allegretto 07:20
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Divertimento for Violin & Piano:
• 4 Divertimento for Violin & Piano: I. Sinfonia. Andante 06:35
• 5 Divertimento for Violin & Piano: II. Danses suisses. Tempo giusto 04:38
• 6 Divertimento for Violin & Piano: III. Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso 03:37
• 7 Divertimento for Violin & Piano: IV. Pas de deux. Adagio - Variation - Coda 07:06
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano & Violin in C Major, K. 296:
• 8 Sonata for Piano & Violin in C Major, K. 296: I. Allegro vivace 06:35
• 9 Sonata for Piano & Violin in C Major, K. 296: II. Andante sostenuto 06:28
• 10 Sonata for Piano & Violin in C Major, K. 296: III. Rondeau. Allegro 04:39
• Total Runtime 01:02:14

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Esther Hoppe has built a name for herself in the last few years as a soloist and a chamber musician, with a reputation as a stylistically assured and accomplished violinist whose stupendous technique serves the purest music making.

After winning the 8th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2002, she founded the Tecchler Trio, with whom she concertized intensively between 2003-2011. The trio won several first prizes in important competitions, including the 2004 Deutschen Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition), 2005 Migros Competition in Switzerland, and the 2007 ARD Competition in Munich. From 2009 until 2013, Esther was the concertmistress of the highly acclaimed Munich Chamber Orchestra, whom she directed regularly without conductor. Since the dissolvement of the Tecchler Trio she has resumed and expanded her solo career, and the multi-faceted musician has also recently become the newest professor of violin at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Esther Hoppe leads an exciting concert calendar, following invitations to festivals such as Luzern, Gstaad, Delft, Prussia Cove, Styriarte, Lockenhaus, etc. She has toured extensively, all over Europe and in USA, Japan, and India with performances in such halls as the Wigmore Hall in London, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Hercules Hall in Munich, the big hall in the Tschaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Vienna Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and many more. Her chamber music partners include, among others, Clemens Hagen, Veronika Hagen, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich, José Gallardo, Reto Bieri, Claudio Bohorquez, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Mirijam Contzen, Sol Gabetta, Heinz Holliger and Johannes Moser.

Esther Hoppe, violin
Alasdair Beatson, piano

Esther Hoppe
The Swiss violinist Esther Hoppe has built an international reputation as soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue.

After studying in Basel, Philadelphia (Curtis Institute of Music), London and Zürich she won 1st Prize at the International Mozart Violin Competition in Salzburg in 2002. Shortly after she founded the Tecchler Trio with whom she won many prizes at numerous competitions, such as 1st Prize at the International ARD-Competition in Munich in 2007. From 2009-2013 she was 1st concertmaster of the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

In 2013 she was appointed professor for violin at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Apart from many appearances as a soloist she is a passionate chamber musician. Her partners include Ronald Brautigam, Christian Poltéra, Francesco Piemontesi, Clemens und Veronika Hagen, Lars Anders Tomter, Alexander Lonquich and the Auryn Quartett, amongst others.

She’s a regular invite to festivals such as in Gstaad, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Lockenhaus, Mondsee, Graz (Styriarte) and Salzburg.

Following two highly-praised CD-recordings with works by Mozart, Strawinsky and Poulenc with pianist Alasdair Beatson for Claves Records, a complete recording with Johann Sebastian Bach’s works for solo violin will appear with the same label in October 2021. Further CD-recordings appeared for Virgin Classics, Neos, Concentus Records and Ars Musici.

She plays the “De Ahna” Stradivari violin from 1722 and a violin by Gioffredo Cappa from 1690.

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