Emanuel Ax, piano Leonidas Kavakos, violin Yo-Yo Ma, cello

July 30, 2025 at 7:00pm

Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins forces with his dear friends, violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Emanuel Ax, to bring the latest instalment of their “Beethoven for Three” project to Caramoor for a rare and thrilling appearance. Their program distills the essential elements of Beethoven’s musical language into the trio format for a presentation of his most iconic symphonies in arrangements that maintain the power and immediacy of his orchestral works. 

Artists

Emanuel Ax, piano

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Nicholas Cords, viola

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM

“Leonore Overture” (arranged for piano trio)

Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” (arranged for piano quartet by Shai Wosner)

“We all feel that being able to participate in a symphony is such a wonderful thing to do. One of the things that has separated people since recording began is the categories that we put people in, in which chamber musicians, orchestra players, people who play concertos, people who do transcriptions, people who compose, people who conduct, are all viewed as separate categories with no overlap. That siloed thinking discourages actual creativity and collaboration between people. And so we feel that one of the things that is really important to do today is to actually go back to the first principles of music, the simple interaction between friends who want to do something together.” – Yo-Yo Ma 

https://caramoor.org/spektrix/?event-id=62887

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