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Georgy Catoire Works for Violin & Piano Laurent Albrecht Breuninger I Anna Zassimova _______________ -------------- ••• '"I:!" @fOlD Georgy Catoire Works for Violin & Piano Laurent Albrecht Breuninger I Anna Zassimova " 1 Anna Zassimova cpo 777 378 - 2 __________________ ===::::;:,=====--==========II-~-= ••------------------ Georgy Catoire (1861-1926) Works for Violin & Piano Sonata for Violin & Piano No.1 op.1S in B minor 34'58 16'12 IT] Allegro non tanto, me apassionato 8'22 IT] Barcarole. Andante 10'16 [2] Allegro con spirito 8] Poeme for Violin & Piano op. 20 in D major 22'45 (2nd Sonata) Andante - Allegra - Moderato [}] Elegie for Violin & Piano op. 26 5'06 Andante o Romanze for Alto & Piano op. 1 No.4, 3'32 Version for Violin & Piano Moderato T.T.:66'21 Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, Violin Laurent Albrecht Breuninger Anna Zassimova, Piano Georges (Jegor l'vovic) Catoire Moskauer Konservatorium. Ober diesen wird er mit der bevor er sich bald wieder fest in Moskau ansiedelt. Mit Dos Werk yon Georges Catoire enthalt Charakteri• (1861-1926) Musik Wagners vertraut, die dem russischen Publikum dieser Zeit beendet er dann auch seine Studien und 10Bt stika, die sich interessanterweise immer etwas ausser· damals noch kaum bekannt war und die yon den nam• sich nur noch bei Bedarf yon den befreundeten Mos• halb der jeweiligen Stromungen seiner Zeit entwickel· Am 27. Oktober 1885 schreibt P. Tschaikowskij, haften Musikern im land Oberwiegend abgelehnt kauer Komponisten, wie beispielsweise Taneev und ten, und schon daher besondere Aufmerksamkeit auf nach der ersten Begegnung ·mit dem damols 24-jahri• wurde. Catoire besucht die Bayreuther Festspiele, tritt Arenskij beraten. Er hat jetzt zu einer ganz eigenen sich zieht. gen Georges (Georgi;, Jegor L'vovic) Catoire, der Wagner-Gesellschaft bei und kann als erster russi• musikalischen Sprache gefunden und um die Jahrhun• Seine Kompositionen vereinen Neuerungen in der an Nadezda von Mekk: "Wie ich Ihnen ja vermutlich scher "Wagnerianer" bezeichnet werden. Jegors Fami• dertwende erreicht seine Musik ihre Blutezeit. Seit 1916 musikalischen Sprache und einem auffallend freien schon wiederholt erzahlt habe, uberfallen mich immer lie und er selbst den ken aber zunochst nicht an eine beginnt Catoire Musiktheorie und Komposition am Mos• Umgang mit den traditionellen Elementen der russischen wieder iunge Komponisten, urn mich urn Rot und Anwei• Musikerkarriere und so schlieBt er, 1884, in dem Jahr kauer Konservatorium zu unterrichten. 1m Jahr 1922 Komponistenschule. Der Autor einer zeitgen6ssischen sung zu bitten. Die meisten dieser jungen Leute mechen als Klindworth nach Berlin ubersiedelt, sein Studium an geht er nach Poris, kehrt aber schon bald nach Moskou Biographie, Victor Belojev, hebt die "ouBerordentliche der mathematischen Fakultat der Moskauer UniversitOt sich jedoch falsche Vorstellungen yom wahren MaB zuruck, wo er seine Unterrichtstatigkeit wieder auf• Feinheit der harmonischen und rhythmischen Zeichnung ihrer Veranlagung . Jetzt bin ich jedoch auf jemanden mit Auszeichnung ab und beginnt im Moskauer Han• nimmt. Er stirbt 1926. und die poemehafte Spannung dieser Musik" hervor. Es gestof3en, der wirklich uber eine greBe schopferische detshaus seines Vaters zu arbeiten. Unter den Absolventen yon Catoires Kompositions• lassen sich Spuren franzosischer EinflUsse und Beruhrun• Begabung verfugt. Er ist der Sohn Ihrer ehemaligen In dieser Zeit komponiert Catoire bereits KlavierstUk• klasse, die spater im Musikleben der Sowjetunion eine gen mit Chopin erkennen. Doch Catoires Musik bleibt Nachbarn, die in der GeschCiftswelt von Moskou ia gut ke und Romanzen, arrangiert Liszts Son ate "Apres une Rolle spielen, sind zu nennen: Dimitri Kabalevskij, Vladi• immer individuell, hat einen ganz eigenen Charakter, lecture de Dante" fur Klavier zu vier Handen und macht bekannt sind - Cctaire," Dos Interesse und die Sympa• mir Fere, Sergej Evseev, Lev Mosel, Leonid Polovinkin eine identifizierbar eigene Sprache. Man kann ruckblik• thie des berGhmten Meisters, seine fachlichen und prak• sich an Klaviertranskriptionen sinfonischer Werke. und Vladimir Vlasov. kend sagen, Catoire steht mit seiner Musik auf der tischen Ratschlage und die Ermutigung zu einem Kom• Seine Transkription des ersten Satzes (Introduktion und Catoire hinteriaBt 36 Opera und verschiedene Schwelle der russischen Tradition zur Moderne, ohne positionsstudium, werden fur Catoires weitere Entwick• Fugel yon Tschaikowskqs 1.0rchestersuite Op. 43, wird Beorbeitungen. Neben der Sinlonie c-Moll Op] und sich aber, wie andere Zeitgenossen, noch zum nach· lung yon groBer Bedeutung sein. yon diesem so positiv aufgenommen, daB er sie spOter der Sinfonischen Dichtung "Mcyri", nach Lermontov, sten Schritt entschlieBen zu wollen. Georges Catoire, Komponi;t, brillanter Pianist und uber seinen Hauptverleger Jurgenson erscheinen laBt. Op.13, sind das die Kantate "Rusalka" Op.5 (1888), Eine breitere Rezeption und uberdauernde Anerken• Lehrer am Moskauer Konservatorium, stammt aus der Tschaikowskij fuhrt in seinem genannten Schreiben an das Klavierkonzert Op. 21 119091 , Chore, Romanzen nung bleiben dem Komponisten Catoire versagt. Ver• alten, vornehmen Familie derer yon Cato;re de Bina• Nadezda yon Mekk uber Catoire weiter aus: "Er ist 24 und Klaviermusik. Der Schwerpunkt yon Catoires Schaf• sucht man die Grunde dafur zu finden, dann wird man court Bon/onajs, Dointreux, Lorra;ne et Russ;e. Gegen Jahre alt, aber es ist noch nicht zu spat. Ich habe ihn fen gilt der Musik fur Soloklavier und kammermusikali• sich zunachst auf Aussagen bekannter Zeitgenossen, Ende des 18. und zu Beginn des 19. Johrhunderts hat· uberzeugt, doch ernsthaft mit einem Studium zu begin• schen Werken, dorunter dos Kloviertrio f-Moll Op. 14, wie den Musikhistorikern Boris Asafiev und Leonid ten Angehorige der Familie Frankreich verlassen und nen, und er wird, wie es scheint, nach Berlin gehen". 1m die Violinsonate Op.15 und das Streichquinten c-Moll Sabaneev beziehen: Beide betonen, daB Catoire 015 sich in verschiedenen europaischen Landern und in Dezember 1885 geht Catoire tatsachlich nach Berlin, Op. 16, ous den Jahren 1898 - 1902. Hervorzuheben Personlichkeit auBerst bescheiden auftrat und daB er Amerika niedergelassen. Der GroBvater des Komponi• wo er sein Klavierstudium bei Klindworth wieder auf• sind insbesondere die 2. Sonate "Poema" fur Violine viel zu kritisch gegenuber sich selbst war, urn sich sten, Jean Cataire de Biancourt, erhielt 1825 die russi• nimmt und auch regelmaBigen Kompositionsunterricht und Klavier 119061 und weiter das Streichquorten Fis• wenigstens adaquat zu prasentieren, geschweige denn erhalt: Zunachst bei Ono Tiersch, und donoch bei Phil• sche StoatsbOrgerschoft. Am Ende des Johrhunderts Dur Op.23 119121, das Klavierquinten g-Moll Op. 28 um sich breite Anerkennung zu erkampfen. )n Ihrem gehorte die Familie bereits zur Wirtschaftselite in Mos• ippe Rufer. Doch schon im Sommer 1886 - Catoire ver• 119141 und dos Klavierquorten a-Moll Op.32 11916). • Schaffen seien Sie, urn Gottes Willen, unerbittlich streng kau. mag sich in Berlin nicht recht einzuleben und ist yom Daneben schreibt Catoire zwei musiktheoretische Lehr· zu sich selbst" - so schreibt im Jahr 1923 Catoire aus Schon fruh zeigen sich bei Catoire besondere musi• Heimweh geplagt - kehrt er nach Moskau zuruck. bucher: "Theoretischer Kursus der Harmonielehre", Paris an einen seiner Schuler, und genau so unerbittlich kalische Fahigkeiten und so erholt er mit 14 Jahren Kla• Wieder zuhause, beginnt Catoire, auf Vermittlung zwei Bonde, Moskau 1924-25 und "Musikolische streng war er auch mit sich selbst. Catoire war in erster vierunterricht bei dem bekannten Pianisten Carl Klind• Tschaikowskijs, Musiktheorie und Komposition in St. Form", zwei Bande (von seinen Schulern vollendet), Linie nur seiner Kunst verhaftet. Dos unterstreichen ouch worth - einem Schuler Liszts und zu jener Zeit Lehrer am Peterburg bei Rimskij-Korsakov und Ljadov zu studieren, Moskau 1934- 36. seine weiteren Zeilen: "Sie, die Jungeren, mussen unse· 4 5 re Kunst retten! Denn nur fur diese lohnt es sich, in die• ist Catoire aber wiederum der einzige yon Tschai• selbstondige und reiche Gedankenwelt, eine progressi• Die vorliegende CD enthalt eine gezielt vorgenom• ser Welt zu leben.». Und erganzend zu diesem Pers6n• kowskijs Nachfolgern, der dessen lyrik weilerluhrl, ve Beziehung zur TonalitOt und ein feines Gespur fur die mene Auswahl von Catoires Werken und m6chte damit lichkeitsmerkmal Catoires schreibt der Komponist Niko• ahne ihn deshalb geschmacklos und sklovisch zu kopie• Harmonie. Nach einem Konzert mit Catoires Kammer• eine erweiterte Basis schaffen, um diesen den Weg aus lai Medtner: )ch kenne ihn schon seit meinem zw61ften ren. Selbst in seinen franz6sischen Passagen holt Catoi• musik schreibt der Komponist Nikolai Mjaskowskij: der Vergessenheit in unsere Konzertsale zu ebnen. Lebensalter .. Er war damals noch ganz jung, aber re die slawisch-elegische Stimmung oufrecht, so, wie wir "Schwer zu sagen, welche Eigenschaft seiner Werke genau so jung geblieben erschien er mir auch im Lauf es auch bei Tschaikowskij linden. Dennoch auffallend noch zur Vertiefung des Eindrucks beigetragen hat. Die Elegie Op.26, im Jahr 1916 herausgegeben, seines gesamten Lebens. Er hatte nicht das, was charak• ist die instinktive Abgrenzung sowohl der "germanisti• War es die blendende Instrumentierung mit dem allsei• wird von Nikolai Mjaskowskj wie lolgl beurleill: schen" Moskauer als ouch der "nationalistischen" teristischerweise alt erscheinen laf3t, was dieses gewis• tig sehr weisen und tief organischen Gebrauch jedes IISehr
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