Rodin and Beethoven

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Beethoven was the idol of the young Rodin: the epitome of plastic design and concentrated power in music. This is demonstrated by the pianist Marianna Shirinyan in virtuoso interplay with young string players of the Villa Musica. As a teenager, she came from Armenia to the Villa Musica in Mainz, where she found a place to practise and rehearse. Today she is a professor in Oslo and a great master of chamber music. She proves this in works from Rodin's Paris: in the heavenly beautiful first piano quartet by Fauré and in the late violin sonata by Debussy.

Marianna Shirinyan piano

Scholarship holders of the Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate

Ludwig van Beethoven: "Ghost Trio" D major, op. 70 No. 1

Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op. 15

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