Markiyan Melnychenko and Stewart Kelly: Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Violinist Markiyan Melnychenko and pianist Stewart Kelly bring you two magnificent examples from the violin and piano repertoire. Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 6, written in the same year as his famous Heiligenstadt Testament letter, in which he despairs over his growing deafness, shows the struggle of a great artist against a cruel fate. Grieg's intensely passionate Violin Sonata No. 3 was written at the height of the composer's fame and displays his mastery of the genre.

Violin: Markiyan Melnychenko
Piano: Stewart Kelly