Poulenc & Mozart Esther Hoppe & Alasdair Beatson

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Sonata for Piano & Violin in G Major, K. 301:
• 1 Sonata for Piano & Violin in G Major, K. 301: I. Allegro con spirito 08:00
• 2 Sonata for Piano & Violin in G Major, K. 301: II. Allegro 05:20
• Sonata for Piano & Violin in E Minor, K. 304:
• 3 Sonata for Piano & Violin in E Minor, K. 304: I. Allegro 09:18
• 4 Sonata for Piano & Violin in E Minor, K. 304: II. Tempo di minuetto 05:42
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Sonata for Violin & Piano, FP 119:
• 5 Sonata for Violin & Piano, FP 119: I. Allegro con fuoco 06:51
• 6 Sonata for Violin & Piano, FP 119: II. Intermezzo. Très lent et calme 06:18
• 7 Sonata for Violin & Piano, FP 119: III. Presto tragico 05:38
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 378:
• 8 Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 378: I. Allegro moderato 09:35
• 9 Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 378: II. Andantino sostenuto e cantabile 05:52
• 10 Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-Flat Major, K. 378: III. Rondeau. Allegro 04:41
• Total Runtime 01:07:15

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In recent years, Esther Hoppe has established herself as a stylistically confident, virtuosic violinist in both the solo and chamber music repertoires – someone who always places her stupendous technique at the service of the music. After studying with Thomas Füri at the Basel Music Academy, Esther Hoppe went to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she continued her studies with Robert Mann and Ida Kavafian. She then studied with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music in London and with Nora Chastain at the Zurich University of the Arts. Esther Hoppe has given solo performances with many orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Les Siècles in Paris, the German State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Pfalz, the kammerorchester basel, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Musikkollegium Winterthur.

After winning 1st prize at the 8th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2002, Esther Hoppe founded the Tecchler Trio. They enjoyed an intensive concert career from 2003 to 2011, winning several first prizes at important competitions, the most significant being 1st Prize at the International ARD Competition in Munich in 2007. From 2009 to 2013 Esther Hoppe was also First Concert Master of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, which she herself directed in many concerts. Since 2013 she has been a professor of violin at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

Esther Hoppe’s concert career has taken her to the festivals of Lockenhaus, Lucerne, Davos, Gstaad, Delft, Seville, Prussia Cove and the Styriarte in Graz. She has toured all the countries of Europe, the USA, Japan and India, performing in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Great Hall of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Hercules Hall in Munich, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Konzerthaus in Dortmund. Esther Hoppe’s chamber music partners include Clemens and Veronika Hagen, Nicolas Altstaedt, Heinz Holliger, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alexander Lonquich, Aleksandar Madzar, Christian Poltéra and Ronald Brautigam.

Together with the Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson, Esther Hoppe released a CD with works by Mozart and Stravinsky on the Claves label in 2014 that was highly praised by the critics. Further CDs have been released by Virgin Classics, Neos, Concentus Records and Ars Musici. Esther Hoppe plays a violin made in 1690 by Gioffredo Cappa. She lives with her family in Zurich.

"Their account of the Poulenc [is] tense, dramatic and imaginative, with Beatson piling up huge, gothic crags of tone at the tragic climaxes and Hoppe glinting and whispering in the brooding central elegy for Lorca. Like everything else on this enjoyable but idiosyncratic disc, it’s certainly not short of character" (Gramophone Magazine)

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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