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Kindred Spirits Two Ends of a Great Tradition CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN MAGENTA Customer Avie YELLOW Catalogue No. AV2224 BLACK Job Title Schubert-Gál Vol1 Page Nos. 24 - 1 Kindred Spirits Two ends of a great tradition AV2224 CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread BLACK Customer Avie Catalogue No. AV2224 Job Title Schubert-Gál Vol1 Page Nos. 2 - 23 Music by Hans Gál available from AVIE Records AV2225 (2 CD set) AV2146 Symphony No.2 coupled with Schubert Symphony No.9 Violin Concerto Violin Concertino Triptych for Orchestra ‘The Great’. Northern Sinfonia. Thomas Zehetmair Annette-Barbara Vogel (violin) Northern Sinfonia Kenneth Woods FRANZ SCHUBERT AV2182 AV2064 (3 CD set) by Wilhelm August Rieder (1825) The Two Violin Sonatas Suite for Violin and Piano The Complete Works for Solo Piano Annette-Barbara Vogel (violin) Juhani Lagerspetz Leon McCawley CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread BLACK Customer Avie Catalogue No. AV2224 Job Title Schubert-Gál Vol1 Page Nos.22 - 3 jour. Si vous souhaitez recevoir un formulaire d'adhésion ou obtenir des informations plus détaillées sur la Société Hans Gál et la façon de soutenir son action, veuillez nous écrire à l'adresse Franz Schubert 1797-1828 suivante. Symphony No.6 • Sinfonie Nr.6 D589 Die Hans Gál Gesellschaft ist ein in Großbritannien in C major • C-Dur (1817-1818) 32:01 Honorary President: Sir Colin Davis eingetragener gemeinnütziger Verein, der die Patrons: Steven Isserlis, Leon McCawley Aufgabe hat, Aufführungen, Aufnahmen und 1 I Adagio – Allegro 9:42 Registered charity Nos. 1116965, SCO40273 Studium der Werke Hans Gáls weltweit zu fördern. 2 II Andante 5:41 Die Gesellschaft steht neuen Mitgliedern offen. The Hans Gál Society offers heartfelt thanks to its Ohne die Unterstützung dieses Vereins wäre diese 3 III Scherzo: Presto 5:57 many members and supporters whose generous Aufnahme nicht zustande gekommen. Für weitere 4 IV Allegro moderato 10:41 donations and encouragement made this ground- Information über die Gesellschaft oder ein breaking recording of Gál’s 1st Symphony Beitrittsformular schreiben Sie bitte an die Adresse possible. Special thanks to: unten. The RVW Trust, Sir Gerald Elliot and The Binks Hans Gál 1890-1987 Trust, Mark and Diane Dickson, Dr Anthony Fox, The Hans Gál Society, 16 Blacket Place, Eva Fox-Gál, Christine Gough , Professor Sir Alan Edinburgh EH9 1RL, UK Symphony No.1 • Sinfonie Nr.1 Op.30 * Peacock, Jan Schlapp. email [email protected] or in D major • D-Dur (1927) 29:41 visit www.hansgalsociety.org. The Hans Gál Society is a registered charity dedi- 5 I Moderato 10:54 cated to encouraging and supporting performance, recordings and study of Gál’s work throughout the Recorded 18-19 November 2009 (Schubert) and 6 II Burlesque 5:09 world. The Society warmly welcomes new mem- 27-28 September 2010 in Hall One of 7 III Elegie 7:30 bers. Without our members this recording could The Sage Gateshead, England 8 IV Rondo 6:08 not have taken place. Please use contact details below for a membership form or more information Recording produced, engineered and on the Society and how to support its work. edited by Simon Fox-Gál (*world premier recording) Design and Art Direction: Hugh O’Donnell La Société Hans Gál est une association à but non Northern Sinfonia lucratif qui soutient dans le monde entier la Cover Photograph and Inner Inlay: Dan Brady promotion des exécutions publiques, des Thomas Zehetmair enregistrements et des recherches consacrés à Translations l'œuvre de Gál. Nous accueillons toujours des German: Anthony Fox & Eva Fox-Gál Total playing time: 61:52 members nouveaux : sans le soutien de nos French: Baudime Jam membres, cet enregistrement n'aurait pu voir le CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread BLACK Customer Avie Catalogue No. AV2224 Job Title Schubert-Gál Vol1 Page Nos. 4 - 21 THOMAS ZEHETMAIR l’Orchestre de Chambre Saint Paul. En tant que chef invité, il a dirigé des orchestres tels Thomas Zehetmair est un des artistes les plus que le Philharmonique de Londres, l’Orchestre remarquables de notre époque. Sa carrière Symphonique de la Radio Bavaroise, internationale de chef d’orchestre repose sur l’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, la Camerata deux postes : celui de chef principal du Salzburg, l’Orchestre de Chambre de Munich, Northern Sinfonia en Angleterre, et de chef l’Orchestre National de Hongrie, l’Orchestre associé à l’Orchestre de Chambre Saint Paul aux Symphonique de la Radio d’Helsinki, l’Orchestre États-Unis. Ses tournées avec le Northern Symphonique de Bamberg, l’Orchestre National Sinfonia l’ont conduit au Festival d’Hong Kong, Philharmonique de Varsovie, l’Orchestre Hallé de aux Pays Bas, en Scandinavie et en Allemagne. Manchester, et l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Cette extraordinaire collaboration artistique a Rotterdam. débouché sur différents projets, notamment le 50e anniversaire de l’orchestre en 2008/09 à Thomas Zehetmair a reçu un diplôme d’honneur l’occasion duquel Thomas Zehetmair a ouvert la décerné par l’industrie allemande du disque saison avec un cycle de l’intégrale des (Preise der Deutschen Shallplattenkritik), ainsi symphonies de Beethoven, et l’a conclue avec que médaille « Karl Böhm » d’interprète une série de concerts intitulés « Rêves et décernée par le Land Styria (Autriche). Thomas cérémonies » qui était consacré à des œuvres Zehetmair est titulaire d’un doctorat honoraire à contemporaines. Sus sa direction, le Northern la Hochschule für Musik « Franz Liszt » de Sinfonia a participé à des enregistrements dont Weimar. le succès a été considérable : pour AVIE, Thomas a enregistré, à la fois comme soliste et comme chef, le Concerto pour violon de Brahms et la Quatrième Symphonie de Schumann (un choix du BBC Music Magazine). Toujours pour AVIE, il a enregistré les Troisième et Sixième symphonies de Sibelius et le Concerto pour violon de Stravinsky (Disque du mois du Classic FM Magazine). Plus récemment, NMC a produit le CD « Britten inconnu » (Choix du rédacteur de Gramophone). HANS GÁL in 1925 Depuis le début de la saison 2010/11, Thomas Zehetmair occupe le poste de chef associé CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread BLACK Customer Avie Catalogue No. AV2224 Job Title Schubert-Gál Vol1 Page Nos. 20-5 Simrock en 1929 sous l’Opus 30, et avec le titre tout son potentiel symphonique ; même Kindred Spirits He composed his 6th Symphony between 6th « Sinfonietta en Ré majeur » - l’éditeur ayant l’accompagnement syncopé qui s’immisce dans October 1817 and February 1818, completing it estimé, à l’époque, que cet intitulé « plus léger » la nuance ppp à la troisième mesure devient un Two ends of a great tradition just after his 21st birthday; it was performed serait plus vendeur. Gál avait en effet composé puissant motif dans le développement, tandis early in 1818 in a private concert, most probably deux autres symphonies, la première lui ayant que le rythme dactyle répété, qui en émerge Hans Gál writes: ‘There is hardly a place in the with Schubert playing in the orchestra – the only valu de remporter le Prix d’État Autrichien en progressivement à partir de la mesure six, world so deeply imbued with the spirit of a performance in his lifetime. It is often referred to 1915. Quoi qu’il en soit, cette partition, et la s’affirme en prenant de plus en plus musical past as Vienna. As the result of a unique as the ‘Little’ C major, to distinguish it from the suivante, furent écartées et ce ne fut qu’à son d’importance. La Burlesque se signale par constellation in the astral system of genius, the ‘Great’ C Major Symphony, which was not troisième essai, alors qu’il était âgé de 37 ans, son humour piquant et espiègle, tout town was the focal point in the history of music completed until 1827. When the Gesellschaft der qu’il considéra avoir produit une œuvre particulièrement chez les cuivres et les for more than half a century, when Gluck, Haydn, Musikfreunde, to whom Schubert had submitted symphonique digne d’être publiée. Par la suite, percussions, tandis que l’Élégie, le cœur Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert lived there in a the ‘Great’ shortly after completing it, rejected it Gál renomma l’œuvre « Première Symphonie » palpitant de l’œuvre, se déploie en une vaste continuous succession.’ [The Golden Age of on the grounds that it was ‘too long and difficult’, et retira également le titre du premier mélodie, souvent chantée par un instrument Vienna, London, 1948, p.9]. That, however, did Schubert offered in its place the ‘Little’ C Major; mouvement, « Idylle», probablement pour éviter soliste accompagné par un partenaire en duo, not secure Franz Schubert (1797-1828) an easy this was duly performed, less than a month after toutes suggestions programmatiques. tout en ayant cependant une section médiane passage. Born on the cusp of the 19th century, his death – the first public performance of any of contrastée et nettement contrapuntique. Le during the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars, his symphonies. Les notes que Gál rédigea lui-même pour Rondo est énergique et rythmique, en followed by the ultra-repressive era following présenter cette symphonie sont typiquement alternance avec un épisode cantabile qui the post-Revolutionary peace settlement The 6th is scored for double woodwind, with the succinctes : « Ses quatre mouvements – débouche sur une marche qui réapparaît established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, addition of 2 horns and two trumpets, in addition Moderato, Burlesque, Élégie, Rondo – suivent brièvement sous la forme d’une marche funèbre, Schubert grew up in a new social and economic to strings and timpani. The symphony as a whole globalement un plan classique, en insistant avant que le thème du rondo, associé avec un environment for which he was constitutionally ill- straddles the classical world of its great 18th comme il se doit sur les contrastes résultant du motif en triolets qui lui est apparenté, ne vienne equipped.
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