DeClassified Music | 2025

Kristian Winther and Brieley Cutting look forward to sharing this uplifting recital of major classics from the French and German repertory, linked together by their glowing, radiant sounds. Performing together since their formative years at the Australian National Academy of Music, Brieley and Kristian together curated this program from the idea of offering music bestowed with a ‘sunny’ nature and inherent beauty.  

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The first part of the recital comes from France: Debussy’s shimmering Violin and Piano Sonata followed by Lili Boulanger’s delicately heart-warming Two Pieces and then Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, this built on a tender and lyrical idea consisting of a floating melody. Composed in the same year as Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, the second half of the program commences with an early work from Sydney’s own Dulcie Holland.In Tribute is typical of much of her music, inhabiting a melodic, optimistic and sunny space. The recital then moves to Germany for Brahms’ Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 for Violin and Piano. A Romantic masterpiece of exquisite beauty and lyricism, the three movements of this work are interrelated and Brahms expertly allows the violin and piano parts to echo one another and intertwine whilst demanding virtuosity from both players. The final movement is known to transport its listeners, as it did for Clara Schumann who wrote to the composer, “…I wish that the last movement could accompany me in my journey from here to the next world.” 

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Claude Debussy - Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano 

Lili Boulanger - Deux Morceaux for Violin and Piano 

Olivier Messiaen - Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano 

Interval

Dulcie Holland - In Tribute: Fantasy upon a theme of Hooper Brewster-Jones 

Johannes Brahms - Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 for Violin and Piano