Jian Liu Photo: Supplied
Throughout the 2019 Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson musicians have played all the works for violin and piano by Franz Schubert. It's been a theme running through the whole series of concerts.
At the Grand Finale, it was Nikki Chooi and Jian Liu who had the pleasure of presenting the final piece, 'Rondo in B minor D895'.
It was written nearly a decade after the four sonatas, specifically for a 20-year old Czech violinist called Josef Slavík. Again the publisher renames the piece and calls it 'Rondo Brillant', because of its virtuosity.
The work is in two main sections: a slower, grandiose introduction followed by a faster section in rondo form. The piano and violin are equally dominant and rhythmically powerful and at the end Schubert takes the excitement to the next level with an even faster coda section in B major, a brilliant but technically difficult key.
Recorded in Nelson Centre of Musical Arts by RNZ
Sound engineer: Darryl Stack
