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Program Sonata in G minor (Hoboken XVl :44) Haydn ALEXANDER TORADZE. Plano Moderate Allegretto A presentation of INDIANA UNIVERSllY SOUlll BEND DIYlston of the Arts Gaspard de la nuit - llu-ee Poemes pour piano d'apres Aloysius Bertrand Ravel Daniel Cohen, Chancellor Ondine Robert W. Demaree, Jr., Dean of the Arts LeGibet Scarbo Eight o'clock Saturday, March 6, 1993 Intermission Campu Auditorium Twenty-third Program, 1992-93 Season Varlations on the theme of Bach Liszt from the cantata w,..,.,,,.,.,, .Klagen, Sargen. Zagen and Cruci/ixus/ram B minor,U,ss llu-ee Movements from the ballet Petrouchca Stravinsky Russian Dance In Petrouchka's Room Shrovetide Fair Mr. Toradze graduated In 1978 from the Tchallcovslcy Conservatory In Moacow and The piano venlons were completed by the author at Anglet, France In August of 1921 . following post-g-aduate studies became a professor at the Moec:ow Conservatory. He came to wcrldwide prominence through his triumphs in numerous inter­ national contests, Including the Van Cliburn Competition. He has since appeared with virtually every majcr European and North American crchestra. lk. Toradze has also collaborated with such leadingconductors as Ashlcenazy, Dutoit , Eschenbach, Masur, Ozawa, and Tennstedt. In 1992 Alexander Toradze was ap­ pointed to the Martin Endowed Professor­ ship in Piano at Indiana University South Bend. Steinway Plano Angel-a.ti Records COLUMBIA ARTISTS UANAGEMEITT INC . Penonal Direction R. DOUGLASSHEIDON andUARY JOCONNEALY 165 West 57th Street New Yen:, NY 10019 n.-e1-._.,.........w. ....._oto-..tlaoaJ-t.t-•fIUSBlaf..W......_ EollatJ,-,.w_..,. •t-lo.-tolaoloopnt,11,lt.l. A-•~JcW...--tbo... el....,-W.1,ebo.torla•........... Alexander Toradze. Program Notes he began to study the piano, and in 1889 Alexander Toradze is internationally .Mr. Toradze will begin his 1993-94 he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where recognized by musicians, critics, season with Simon Rattle and the City of he spent fifteen years, proving himself an and audiences alil::e as a masterful l::ey­ Birmingham Orchestra performing Sonata In G minor, (Hobol::en XVl:44) exceptional student. He wrote his first board virtuoso In the grand Romantic Rachmaninoff's lhkdPiano Cancertoin Haydn (1732-1809) composition, a piece for the piano, in tradition. Distinguished above all for the London's Barbican Center and 1893; his first success came with the highly emotional intensity of his playing, Birmingham's new Symphony Hall . In It is curious that Haydn, who was not a _ _Pavanepourune inlantech.lunte, written he has enriched the great Russian pianis­ November he again joins the Kirov pianist, would come to compose more than in 1889. tic heritage with his own boldly unortho­ Orchestra, under Mr. Gergiev, in their fifty piano sonatas as well as numerous The suiteGa.sparr/ch la nuit, composed dox interpretative conceptions, deeply po­ tour to Japan. He a tiso will be appearing shorter pieces for the instrument. in 1909. is based on three strange and etic lyricism, and visceral excitement. with the Chicago, Baltimore and Seattle Throughout his life he experimented a lugubrious poems by Aloysius Bertrand. In the summer of 1992, Mr. Toradze symphonies, the Finnish Radio Orchestra, great deal with the genre of the piano "These three poems," according to Alfred joined Valery Gergiev and the Kirov the l'Orchestre de Paris, the Toronto sonata, far more than Mozart did, for Cortot, "enrich the piano repertoire of our Orchestra in a triumphant European tour. Symphony, and the Orchestra de Santa example. Before Haydn, it was Carl epoch with one of the most extraordinary This tour started in St. Petersburg with a Cecilia in Rome, am,ongothers. Philipp Emanuel Bach who systematized examplesof instrumental ingenuity which performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Mr. Toradze recor-ds exclusively for the worl:: of their predecessors in estab­ the industry of composers has ever ThirdPiano Concerto and continued in Angel/EMI. CommentingonMr. Toradze's lishing a more structured solo l::eyboard produced. " The translation of the poems Spain, Italy and Germany. It culminated premiere recordin\J for Angel/EM(. which sonata form through his 150 sonatas. that follows was made by Paul Goodman. at the highly acclaimed openingconcert features Prol::ofiev s, Seventh Sonata, · Bach's efforts, in turn, exerted a definite Ondlne of the Schleswig-1-blstein Festival in Stravinsl::y's lhreeJhvemenfs from influence upon Haydn. in whose hands the "Listen - listen! - it's I, Ondine Hamburg. This performance was broadcast Petrvsh.ka, and Ravel's Miroirs, Stereo form gradually grew to larger proportions. brushing these waterdrops against the throughout Europe. Review remarl::ed: "His first release here Haydn's first l::eyboard worl::s were gen­ sounding diamond-panes of your window, Another memorable concert of the 1992 may be the most impressive piano record­ erally entitled "divertimento" or gl=ing in the moon's wan rays: and see how, "partita" and were written for his harp­ In watered silk, the lady of thecastle from her season was the performance of Sergei in!'.I of the year. " balcony watches the lovely starry night and Prol::ofie v's SecondPiano Concerto His second recording was released in the sichord pupils. They were simple, spirited the lovely Jake asleep. with the Rotterdam Philharmonic under summer of 1991 and features Mussorgsl::y's compositions, usually in three short "Each wave Is a spirit swimming on the the d irection of Mstislav Rostropovich . PicturesatanExlubitionand Ravel's movements. Subsequently, over a thirty­ streaming. each current a path snaking to my This performance was chosen by the Rot­ Gaspardde la nuit; DallasAl:Jrning~= year period of sonata-writing, Haydn trans­ palace, and my palace Is built of liquid. deep In the lal::e, In the triangle of fire, of earth. and terdam critics as the Concert of the Year. music critic John Airdoin wrote, "We have formed this graceful and courtly concep­ ofalr. Mr. Toradze often collaborates with a compact disc of rampant imagination, tion of the form into worl::s more expres­ "Listen! - listen - my father Is whipping Esa-Peld::a Salonen (with the Los Angeles color and pianistic prowess. The result is sive of his individual temperament. He the creal::ing water with a green alder-branch, Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio as orchestral as a single piano could hope modified the structure, varied the number and my sisters' anns are stroking the foam on Orchestra) and Gerard Schwarz (at the to be ... such a rare .and theatrical of movements and arranged them in di­ the fresh Isles of weeds, of Illies. of flags: mock, 11 Ing the toppled hairy willow who's fishing with Mostly Mozart Festival in New Yori:: and listening experienc,e. verse order. Particularly in his later .a line. the Seattle Symphony). Summer Festivals where Mr. Toradze sonatas, the 1::eyboard writing is highly Having murmured her ,ong, she begged In his 1992-93 season Mr. Toradze will frequently appears include the 1-bllywood imaginative and effective, heightened by me tal:e her ring upon my finger, to be t he be performing with. among others, the Bowl, Mann's Music Center, Saratoga a more far-ranging harmonic usage and an spouse of an Ondine, and to go to her pa lace animated contrapuntal style. with her, to be the ki ng of lal::es. Dallas and Detroit symphonies, the Blossom Music Center, Waterloo, And when I told her that I loved a mortal, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Bayerische Concertgebouw and Schleswig-1-blstein. It is not l::nown when Haydn wrote the sulky and spiteful she wept a tear or two: she Rundfunl:: in Munich and the Netherlands Sonata in G minor, lhh. X Vl-44; laughed out loud and sped away in showers Radio Orchestra in Amsterdam with Mr . musicologists believed that it was com­ that tric k:led white long down my windows Gergie v conducting. He will be a soloist posed between 1771 and 1773. The blue. with the Minnesota Orchestra, Edo de present sonata is unusual in that it con­ Le Gibet Waart conducting. on its United Sta tes tains only two movements, a graceful "What's st irring round t his gibbet... tour. In February of this year he again Mxierato, followed by a robust and joyful -Faust appeared in St. Petersburg with the Kirov Allegretto. Ah . whatdo I hear - could it be the Orchestra and Mr . Gergiev in the prome­ night-blast yelping, or the hanged man heaving nade concert at the Kirov Opera House. Gaspard de la nuit • sigh on the gallows' fork? Could It bea rly Ravel(l875-1937) a-hunt ing. blowing round these deaf ears his Mr . Toradze will a lso be heard in a major fanfare of tallyhoo? Or else a spider weaving recital series throughout the world includ­ Maurice Ravel was born in the Basque re­ half a yard of muslin as an ascot for this ing Russia, the United States, England, strangled neck? It's tl,e bell tolling at the gion of France, but three months later his Germany, and the Netherlands. city-walls, below the horlmn; and the corpse family moved to Paris. At the age of seven of a hanged man, red in t he setting sun. Sea.rho "He lool:ed under the bed, up the chimney, miere performance on June 13, 1911, the closet: - no one. He couldn't when it was staged at the Theatre du understand where he had come in , where he Chatelet in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev's had gotten away." Ballets Russes. Ten years after the im­ . -Hoffman, N,_'q/,t Tales Oh, how many times I've heard and seen mense success of Petrouchi:a, the composer him, Scarbo, when shines the midnight.

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