His early career, which climaxed in his membership of the Beaux Arts Trio, gave a flavour of things to come, including themed projects such as 2003’s Forbidden Music (pieces secretly written by Jewish composers incarcerated by the Nazis) and 2004’s East Meets West (an eclectic mix of Shankar, Bartók, Ravel, Schnittke and Falla). Born in South Africa in 1973-with Irish ancestry he explored in the 2022 television documentary Celtic Dreams-Hope was trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Stoke d’Abernon. But the soul of this concert is surely the slow movement of Beethoven's Sixth Violin Sonata, with its aching melody that unfolds like prayerful song, wafting through the halls where the composer once walked.British violinist Daniel Hope’s unquenchable thirst for all things musical is reflected in a multifaceted career that embraces modern media, technologies and stylistic diversity. The violinist begins with a bittersweet arrangement of the Londonderry Air, better known as 'Danny Boy' when sung. Patrick's Day,' which fits with Hope's Irish heritage. One of these tunes, a theme with variations, is called 'St. These were intended for amateurs to play at home, but with Beethoven nothing was ever easy. Beginning around 1810, Beethoven was commissioned to arrange his own versions of folk tunes from the British Isles. The music Hope chose for this special performance makes a most unexpected connection between Beethoven and St. On display, in front of Hope and pianist Sylvia Thereza, is Beethoven's own traveling desk, a compact model he used to write letters and perhaps compose music. But the desk in this concert cannot be matched.

We often ask artists to perform at their own 'tiny desk' of some sort. It's also a museum, library, publishing house and performance space. Far more than a cultural curiosity, the house is, as Hope calls it, 'the nerve center' for dozens of Beethoven scholars. Violinist Daniel Hope is the current president of Beethoven-Haus, where the great composer was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany.

Our Tiny Desk (home) concert series has brought us to some very special places, but few can match the distinction of being inside Ludwig Van Beethoven's house.

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