Violinist Christian Teal is most familiar to Nashville concertgoers as the Blair String Quartet's longtime first violinist, but his solo recitals are also worth seeking out. Last year he completed a two-concert cycle of Bach's works for unaccompanied violin, and this weekend he teams up with pianist Jennifer McGuire for a rather more varied selection of works. Béla Bartók's Second Sonata for Violin and Piano dates from 1923 and is among the richest works of Bartók's so-called “expressionist” period. Camille Saint-Saëns adopted a Beethovenian heroic mode for his 1885 Sonata, Op. 7, which should make for an interesting comparison with Beethoven's own early Sonata Op. 12, No. 1. Blair professor Michael Hime joins as narrator for the premiere of Joshua McGuire's Two Poems by Walt Whitman. Admission is free.
Sun., Jan. 24, 4 p.m., 2010
Sun., Jan. 24, 4 p.m., 2010
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