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Milana Chernyavska Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) Transcriptions for Violin and Piano Milana Chernyavska was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. At the age of five she took her first piano lessons before entering the School for Gifted Children at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory two years later. At seven she performed her 1 Hymn to the Sun 4:15 first concert in the Great Philharmonic Hall in Kiev and then went on to win (Nikolay Andreyevich RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844–1908): The Golden Cockerel) the first international chamber music competition Concertino Praga at only 2 Oriental Dance 4:35 twelve years of age. In 1990 she graduated with distinction from the (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) KREISLER Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Professor Sagaidachny. 3 Songs my mother taught me 2:57 She then undertook master-classes with Professors Bashkirov, Bloch and (Antonin DVO¤ÁK (1841–1904): Gypsy Melodies) others, and continued her studies at the Academy for Music and Theatre in 4 Munich with Professors Hoehenneder and Oppitz. Milana Chernyavskaya’s Scherzo 4:10 (Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893): Souvenir de Hapsal) artistic abilities have won her many prizes at both national and international Russian and levels, including a Gold Medal at the Vladimir and Regina Horowitz 5 Arab Song 4:31 Competition in 1994. Since 1994 she has also held the title Outstanding Artist (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) in the Ukraine. Since 1998 she has appeared as soloist with a number of 6 Humoresque 2:24 Slavonic orchestras, including the Munich Chamber and Ukrainian National Symphony (TCHAIKOVSKY: Deux morceaux, Op. 10, No. 2) Orchestras. Additionally she was recorded at performances with the Bavarian, 7 Slavonic Dance No. 2 5:08 Hessian, Middle German (MDR) and North German (NDR) Radio, as well as (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 10, Op. 72) Miniatures for the BBC, the VRS, Radio France and the National Ukrainian Radio. She 8 Chant sans paroles 3:23 has also collaborated in chamber music and other recordings for major record (TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Hapsal) companies, including a release selected as one of the best CDs of 2001 by 9 Humoresque 2:53 Songs my mother taught me BBC Music Magazine. Milana Chernyavskaya’s international career has taken (DVO¤ÁK: Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7) her to important music centres throughout Europe, as well as in Canada and the United States, and in Japan, with 0 Slavonic Fantasy 5:05 appearances in major festivals. In addition to her performances she has also taught at the Academy for Music and (DVO¤ÁK: Various themes) Oriental Dance Theatre in Munich. ! Negro Spiritual Melody 5:31 (DVO¤AK: Symphony No. 9 - Largo) Slavonic Dances @ Hindou Song 3:24 (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko) Humoresques # Slavonic Dance No. 1 3:34 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46) Andante Cantabile $ Slavonic Dance No. 3 5:36 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 16, Op. 72) % Indian Lament 4:41 (DVO¤ÁK: Sonatina, Op. 100 - Larghetto) ^ Andante cantabile 5:32 (TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet, Op. 11) & Fantasy 9:06 (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Various themes) Nicolas Koeckert, Violin Milana Chernyavska, Piano 8.557388 5 6 8.557388 557388bk Kreisler US 13/6/05 10:28 am Page 2

Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) Fantasy on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer Dvofiak offered a rich source for possible Nicolas Koeckert Transcriptions for Violin and Piano whose technical competence, gradually acquired, had transcription. Included here are the versions of the best brought him to a leading position as a survivor among known of Dvofiak’s Gypsy Melodies, Songs my mother Born in November 1979 in Munich, Nicolas Koeckert soon followed the Fritz Kreisler was born in Vienna in 1875, the son of a final public concert in 1950, and died in New York in the Russian nationalist composers of the ninteteenth taught me 3 and of the ubiquitous Humoresque 9. family tradition of violin-playing, receiving his first violin at the age of six doctor. It was the latter, a keen amateur violinist, who 1962. century. Three of the Slavonic Dances are transcibed 7, # and from his grandfather. His passion for playing developed during lessons with first taught his son the instrument from the age of four. Kreisler’s style of playing included an extended use Tchaikovsky, unlike Rimsky-Korsakov, who had $, works originally for piano duet. The so-called the Russian violin teacher Olga Voitova, between the ages of eleven and Lessons followed with Jacques Auber and at the age of of vibrato, applied to shorter as well as longer notes. His enjoyed an earlier career as a naval officer, was trained Slavonic Fantasy 0 draws on Songs my mother taught fifteen. When he was sixteen he began his studies at the Würzburg seven he was able to enter the Vienna Conservatory. very personal methods of fingering are preserved in the in music at the newly established Conservatory in St me and elements of Dvofiak’s Four Romantic Pieces. Musikhochschule with Grigori Zhislin. Since 1998 he has continued his There he studied the violin with the younger Joseph many editions he made of major works in the violin Petersburg, going on to teach at the parallel Dvofiak’s inspiration came largely from his native studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, while Hellmesberger and was instructed in musical theory by repertoire, while his use of the bow ensured a sweetness establishment in Moscow, until relieved of duties that he Bohemia, where he did much to foster national musical performing regularly as an international soloist. In 2001 he won first prize at Anton Bruckner. of tone that avoided excessive pressure or forced found tedious by the intervention of a generous traditions. In 1892 he was invited to serve as director of the International Violin Competition in Novosibirsk, where he also received At the age of ten he won the Conservatory Gold volume. As a composer he provided a number of benefactor. Two of the present transcriptions, the the newly established National Conservatory in New the Special Prize for the Best Performance of the Required Piece and the Medal. Thereafter he entered the Paris Conservatoire as transcriptions, as well as a series of short compositions Scherzo 4 and Chant sans paroles 8, are drawn from York, positions he held until 1895. The musical result of Cultural Prize of the City of Novosibirsk. He is the first German to have won a pupil of Massart, taking theory lessons from Delibes. attributed by him to lesser known composers of the past. his Souvenir de Hapsal, a collection of three piano his stay in America, still essentially Bohemian in a top prize at the world-famous International Tchaikovsky Violin Two years later he won the Premier Grand Prix, an His eventual revelation of the true authorship of these pieces, dedicated in 1867 to Vera Davïdova as a character, is heard in two of Kreisler’s transcriptions. Competition in Moscow in June 2002. In the same summer he was awarded honour he shared with four other players, all of them a pieces provoked some hostility from critics, who, souvenir of a holiday spent with the Davïdovs, the The so-called Negro Spiritual Melody ! is, in fact, the the Artist Promotion Prize of the Bavarian Government. In June 2003 he was good ten years older. This success marked the end of his incredibly, had accepted the original attributions. These family into which his sister Sasha had married. The cor anglais theme from the slow movement of Dvofiak’s a prizewinner at the International Violin Competition “Jeunesses Musicales” professional training as a violinist. popular compositions have all continued in standard Humoresque 6 is also taken from a piano piece by Symphony ‘From the New World’, a melody that, in Montreal (Canada), from which the semi-final and final rounds were shown By the age of fourteen Kreisler had embarked on an repertoire, although the validity of the attributions would Tchaikovsky, one of two such works from 1871. whatever its original inspiration, later acquired words, as live broadcasts over the internet. In November 2003 he was awarded international career as a virtuoso, travelling in 1888 to hardly convince a modern audience. Tchaikovsky himself arranged the Humoresque for elevated to the status of folk-song. The so-called Indian second prize at the International Liana Isakadze Violin-Competition in St the United States with the pianist Moriz Rosenthal in a The present recording is of transcriptions made by violin and piano in 1877, as his career at the Moscow Lament % is also from Dvofiak’s American period, the Petersburg. Since 2004 he has held a scholarship from the Mozart-Society concert tour. The following year he returned to Vienna Kreisler, as distinct from his original so-called Classical Conservatory and his brief and ill-considered marriage slow movement of his Sonatina for violin and piano, its Dortmund. Nicolas Koeckert has played recitals and performed as soloist with for further schooling and for initial medical training, Manuscripts and his editions under the title Master both came to an end. The well-known Andante cantabile melody suggested, apparently, at the sight of the leading orchestras and renowned conductors in Germany, Austria, Denmark, before his military service. By 1896, however, he had Works. Included here are, in particular, transcriptions of ^ is taken from his String Quartet No.1 in D major of Minnehaha Falls, further possible evidence of the France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Lithuania, resolved to return to a musical career and although he compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and 1871, a slow movement that he later arranged for cello composer’s fascination with Longfellow’s Hiawatha. Poland, Bulgaria, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Lebanon and Korea, collaborating with conductors including Sir Colin failed to pass the audition to join the Vienna Court Dvofiák. The first of these is represented by the Hymn to and orchestra and the performance of which by a string Davis, Lawrence Foster, Jonathan Nott, Saulius Sondeckis, Justus Frantz, Asher Fish, Ari Rasilainen, Christoph Opera Orchestra, in 1898 he was able to appear with the the Sun 1 from the opera Le Coq d’or (The Golden orchestra he accepted. Keith Anderson Poppen and Wojciech Rajski, and with orchestra including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Russian same players as a soloist and to resume with greater Cockerel), the composer’s last opera, completed in 1907 National Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, KBS success his international career, with concerts in Berlin, and based on a libretto by Vladimir Bel’sky, itself Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber in the United States, in London and elsewhere. In 1910 derived from Pushkin, who had had his own source in Orchestra, Georgian Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra of the Nations. For Bavarian Radio he has in London, indeed, he was able to give the first the work of Washington Irving. In the story, which recorded Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for solo violin No. 3, ‘Ballade’, Grieg`s Sonata in C minor, Ravel’s Sonata, performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, which was seems to mock authority in its portrayal of official Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34, and Melody, Op. 42, No.3, Bartók’s Solo Sonata and Bazzini’s Dance of the dedicated to him. incompetence, the Hymn to the Sun is sung by the evil Goblins. Wounded during war service in the Austrian army Queen of Shemakha, as she sets about the conquest of during the early months of the Great War, he was able to the ineffectual King Dodon. devote time to composition, particularly of the short The Oriental Dance 2 and Arab Song 5 are taken violin pieces for which he is well known. His return to from Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1888 symphonic suite the United States was not at first well received by the Scherherazade based on elements of The Arabian Naxos Radio public, and in 1924 he settled in Berlin, where he Nights, with its prominent rôle for a solo violin. The 70 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia @ remained based until the annexation of Austria in 1938. Indian Song is taken from the opera Sadko of 1897, in Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality In spite of the offer of French citizenship, he returned to which an Indian trader sings of the riches of his country, the United States, where he continued his career, until an before the hero of the opera sets out on his long and www.naxosradio.com accident forced him to reduce his schedule. He gave his varied adventures. The final work included here is a 8.557388 2 3 8.557388 4 8.557388 557388bk Kreisler US 13/6/05 10:28 am Page 2

Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) Fantasy on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer Dvofiak offered a rich source for possible Nicolas Koeckert Transcriptions for Violin and Piano whose technical competence, gradually acquired, had transcription. Included here are the versions of the best brought him to a leading position as a survivor among known of Dvofiak’s Gypsy Melodies, Songs my mother Born in November 1979 in Munich, Nicolas Koeckert soon followed the Fritz Kreisler was born in Vienna in 1875, the son of a final public concert in 1950, and died in New York in the Russian nationalist composers of the ninteteenth taught me 3 and of the ubiquitous Humoresque 9. family tradition of violin-playing, receiving his first violin at the age of six doctor. It was the latter, a keen amateur violinist, who 1962. century. Three of the Slavonic Dances are transcibed 7, # and from his grandfather. His passion for playing developed during lessons with first taught his son the instrument from the age of four. Kreisler’s style of playing included an extended use Tchaikovsky, unlike Rimsky-Korsakov, who had $, works originally for piano duet. The so-called the Russian violin teacher Olga Voitova, between the ages of eleven and Lessons followed with Jacques Auber and at the age of of vibrato, applied to shorter as well as longer notes. His enjoyed an earlier career as a naval officer, was trained Slavonic Fantasy 0 draws on Songs my mother taught fifteen. When he was sixteen he began his studies at the Würzburg seven he was able to enter the Vienna Conservatory. very personal methods of fingering are preserved in the in music at the newly established Conservatory in St me and elements of Dvofiak’s Four Romantic Pieces. Musikhochschule with Grigori Zhislin. Since 1998 he has continued his There he studied the violin with the younger Joseph many editions he made of major works in the violin Petersburg, going on to teach at the parallel Dvofiak’s inspiration came largely from his native studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, while Hellmesberger and was instructed in musical theory by repertoire, while his use of the bow ensured a sweetness establishment in Moscow, until relieved of duties that he Bohemia, where he did much to foster national musical performing regularly as an international soloist. In 2001 he won first prize at Anton Bruckner. of tone that avoided excessive pressure or forced found tedious by the intervention of a generous traditions. In 1892 he was invited to serve as director of the International Violin Competition in Novosibirsk, where he also received At the age of ten he won the Conservatory Gold volume. As a composer he provided a number of benefactor. Two of the present transcriptions, the the newly established National Conservatory in New the Special Prize for the Best Performance of the Required Piece and the Medal. Thereafter he entered the Paris Conservatoire as transcriptions, as well as a series of short compositions Scherzo 4 and Chant sans paroles 8, are drawn from York, positions he held until 1895. The musical result of Cultural Prize of the City of Novosibirsk. He is the first German to have won a pupil of Massart, taking theory lessons from Delibes. attributed by him to lesser known composers of the past. his Souvenir de Hapsal, a collection of three piano his stay in America, still essentially Bohemian in a top prize at the world-famous International Tchaikovsky Violin Two years later he won the Premier Grand Prix, an His eventual revelation of the true authorship of these pieces, dedicated in 1867 to Vera Davïdova as a character, is heard in two of Kreisler’s transcriptions. Competition in Moscow in June 2002. In the same summer he was awarded honour he shared with four other players, all of them a pieces provoked some hostility from critics, who, souvenir of a holiday spent with the Davïdovs, the The so-called Negro Spiritual Melody ! is, in fact, the the Artist Promotion Prize of the Bavarian Government. In June 2003 he was good ten years older. This success marked the end of his incredibly, had accepted the original attributions. These family into which his sister Sasha had married. The cor anglais theme from the slow movement of Dvofiak’s a prizewinner at the International Violin Competition “Jeunesses Musicales” professional training as a violinist. popular compositions have all continued in standard Humoresque 6 is also taken from a piano piece by Symphony ‘From the New World’, a melody that, in Montreal (Canada), from which the semi-final and final rounds were shown By the age of fourteen Kreisler had embarked on an repertoire, although the validity of the attributions would Tchaikovsky, one of two such works from 1871. whatever its original inspiration, later acquired words, as live broadcasts over the internet. In November 2003 he was awarded international career as a virtuoso, travelling in 1888 to hardly convince a modern audience. Tchaikovsky himself arranged the Humoresque for elevated to the status of folk-song. The so-called Indian second prize at the International Liana Isakadze Violin-Competition in St the United States with the pianist Moriz Rosenthal in a The present recording is of transcriptions made by violin and piano in 1877, as his career at the Moscow Lament % is also from Dvofiak’s American period, the Petersburg. Since 2004 he has held a scholarship from the Mozart-Society concert tour. The following year he returned to Vienna Kreisler, as distinct from his original so-called Classical Conservatory and his brief and ill-considered marriage slow movement of his Sonatina for violin and piano, its Dortmund. Nicolas Koeckert has played recitals and performed as soloist with for further schooling and for initial medical training, Manuscripts and his editions under the title Master both came to an end. The well-known Andante cantabile melody suggested, apparently, at the sight of the leading orchestras and renowned conductors in Germany, Austria, Denmark, before his military service. By 1896, however, he had Works. Included here are, in particular, transcriptions of ^ is taken from his String Quartet No.1 in D major of Minnehaha Falls, further possible evidence of the France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Lithuania, resolved to return to a musical career and although he compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and 1871, a slow movement that he later arranged for cello composer’s fascination with Longfellow’s Hiawatha. Poland, Bulgaria, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Lebanon and Korea, collaborating with conductors including Sir Colin failed to pass the audition to join the Vienna Court Dvofiák. The first of these is represented by the Hymn to and orchestra and the performance of which by a string Davis, Lawrence Foster, Jonathan Nott, Saulius Sondeckis, Justus Frantz, Asher Fish, Ari Rasilainen, Christoph Opera Orchestra, in 1898 he was able to appear with the the Sun 1 from the opera Le Coq d’or (The Golden orchestra he accepted. Keith Anderson Poppen and Wojciech Rajski, and with orchestra including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Russian same players as a soloist and to resume with greater Cockerel), the composer’s last opera, completed in 1907 National Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, KBS success his international career, with concerts in Berlin, and based on a libretto by Vladimir Bel’sky, itself Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber in the United States, in London and elsewhere. In 1910 derived from Pushkin, who had had his own source in Orchestra, Georgian Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra of the Nations. For Bavarian Radio he has in London, indeed, he was able to give the first the work of Washington Irving. In the story, which recorded Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for solo violin No. 3, ‘Ballade’, Grieg`s Sonata in C minor, Ravel’s Sonata, performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, which was seems to mock authority in its portrayal of official Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34, and Melody, Op. 42, No.3, Bartók’s Solo Sonata and Bazzini’s Dance of the dedicated to him. incompetence, the Hymn to the Sun is sung by the evil Goblins. Wounded during war service in the Austrian army Queen of Shemakha, as she sets about the conquest of during the early months of the Great War, he was able to the ineffectual King Dodon. devote time to composition, particularly of the short The Oriental Dance 2 and Arab Song 5 are taken violin pieces for which he is well known. His return to from Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1888 symphonic suite the United States was not at first well received by the Scherherazade based on elements of The Arabian Naxos Radio public, and in 1924 he settled in Berlin, where he Nights, with its prominent rôle for a solo violin. The 70 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia @ remained based until the annexation of Austria in 1938. Indian Song is taken from the opera Sadko of 1897, in Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality In spite of the offer of French citizenship, he returned to which an Indian trader sings of the riches of his country, the United States, where he continued his career, until an before the hero of the opera sets out on his long and www.naxosradio.com accident forced him to reduce his schedule. He gave his varied adventures. The final work included here is a 8.557388 2 3 8.557388 4 8.557388 557388bk Kreisler US 13/6/05 10:28 am Page 2

Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) Fantasy on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer Dvofiak offered a rich source for possible Nicolas Koeckert Transcriptions for Violin and Piano whose technical competence, gradually acquired, had transcription. Included here are the versions of the best brought him to a leading position as a survivor among known of Dvofiak’s Gypsy Melodies, Songs my mother Born in November 1979 in Munich, Nicolas Koeckert soon followed the Fritz Kreisler was born in Vienna in 1875, the son of a final public concert in 1950, and died in New York in the Russian nationalist composers of the ninteteenth taught me 3 and of the ubiquitous Humoresque 9. family tradition of violin-playing, receiving his first violin at the age of six doctor. It was the latter, a keen amateur violinist, who 1962. century. Three of the Slavonic Dances are transcibed 7, # and from his grandfather. His passion for playing developed during lessons with first taught his son the instrument from the age of four. Kreisler’s style of playing included an extended use Tchaikovsky, unlike Rimsky-Korsakov, who had $, works originally for piano duet. The so-called the Russian violin teacher Olga Voitova, between the ages of eleven and Lessons followed with Jacques Auber and at the age of of vibrato, applied to shorter as well as longer notes. His enjoyed an earlier career as a naval officer, was trained Slavonic Fantasy 0 draws on Songs my mother taught fifteen. When he was sixteen he began his studies at the Würzburg seven he was able to enter the Vienna Conservatory. very personal methods of fingering are preserved in the in music at the newly established Conservatory in St me and elements of Dvofiak’s Four Romantic Pieces. Musikhochschule with Grigori Zhislin. Since 1998 he has continued his There he studied the violin with the younger Joseph many editions he made of major works in the violin Petersburg, going on to teach at the parallel Dvofiak’s inspiration came largely from his native studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, while Hellmesberger and was instructed in musical theory by repertoire, while his use of the bow ensured a sweetness establishment in Moscow, until relieved of duties that he Bohemia, where he did much to foster national musical performing regularly as an international soloist. In 2001 he won first prize at Anton Bruckner. of tone that avoided excessive pressure or forced found tedious by the intervention of a generous traditions. In 1892 he was invited to serve as director of the International Violin Competition in Novosibirsk, where he also received At the age of ten he won the Conservatory Gold volume. As a composer he provided a number of benefactor. Two of the present transcriptions, the the newly established National Conservatory in New the Special Prize for the Best Performance of the Required Piece and the Medal. Thereafter he entered the Paris Conservatoire as transcriptions, as well as a series of short compositions Scherzo 4 and Chant sans paroles 8, are drawn from York, positions he held until 1895. The musical result of Cultural Prize of the City of Novosibirsk. He is the first German to have won a pupil of Massart, taking theory lessons from Delibes. attributed by him to lesser known composers of the past. his Souvenir de Hapsal, a collection of three piano his stay in America, still essentially Bohemian in a top prize at the world-famous International Tchaikovsky Violin Two years later he won the Premier Grand Prix, an His eventual revelation of the true authorship of these pieces, dedicated in 1867 to Vera Davïdova as a character, is heard in two of Kreisler’s transcriptions. Competition in Moscow in June 2002. In the same summer he was awarded honour he shared with four other players, all of them a pieces provoked some hostility from critics, who, souvenir of a holiday spent with the Davïdovs, the The so-called Negro Spiritual Melody ! is, in fact, the the Artist Promotion Prize of the Bavarian Government. In June 2003 he was good ten years older. This success marked the end of his incredibly, had accepted the original attributions. These family into which his sister Sasha had married. The cor anglais theme from the slow movement of Dvofiak’s a prizewinner at the International Violin Competition “Jeunesses Musicales” professional training as a violinist. popular compositions have all continued in standard Humoresque 6 is also taken from a piano piece by Symphony ‘From the New World’, a melody that, in Montreal (Canada), from which the semi-final and final rounds were shown By the age of fourteen Kreisler had embarked on an repertoire, although the validity of the attributions would Tchaikovsky, one of two such works from 1871. whatever its original inspiration, later acquired words, as live broadcasts over the internet. In November 2003 he was awarded international career as a virtuoso, travelling in 1888 to hardly convince a modern audience. Tchaikovsky himself arranged the Humoresque for elevated to the status of folk-song. The so-called Indian second prize at the International Liana Isakadze Violin-Competition in St the United States with the pianist Moriz Rosenthal in a The present recording is of transcriptions made by violin and piano in 1877, as his career at the Moscow Lament % is also from Dvofiak’s American period, the Petersburg. Since 2004 he has held a scholarship from the Mozart-Society concert tour. The following year he returned to Vienna Kreisler, as distinct from his original so-called Classical Conservatory and his brief and ill-considered marriage slow movement of his Sonatina for violin and piano, its Dortmund. Nicolas Koeckert has played recitals and performed as soloist with for further schooling and for initial medical training, Manuscripts and his editions under the title Master both came to an end. The well-known Andante cantabile melody suggested, apparently, at the sight of the leading orchestras and renowned conductors in Germany, Austria, Denmark, before his military service. By 1896, however, he had Works. Included here are, in particular, transcriptions of ^ is taken from his String Quartet No.1 in D major of Minnehaha Falls, further possible evidence of the France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Lithuania, resolved to return to a musical career and although he compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and 1871, a slow movement that he later arranged for cello composer’s fascination with Longfellow’s Hiawatha. Poland, Bulgaria, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Lebanon and Korea, collaborating with conductors including Sir Colin failed to pass the audition to join the Vienna Court Dvofiák. The first of these is represented by the Hymn to and orchestra and the performance of which by a string Davis, Lawrence Foster, Jonathan Nott, Saulius Sondeckis, Justus Frantz, Asher Fish, Ari Rasilainen, Christoph Opera Orchestra, in 1898 he was able to appear with the the Sun 1 from the opera Le Coq d’or (The Golden orchestra he accepted. Keith Anderson Poppen and Wojciech Rajski, and with orchestra including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Russian same players as a soloist and to resume with greater Cockerel), the composer’s last opera, completed in 1907 National Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, KBS success his international career, with concerts in Berlin, and based on a libretto by Vladimir Bel’sky, itself Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber in the United States, in London and elsewhere. In 1910 derived from Pushkin, who had had his own source in Orchestra, Georgian Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra of the Nations. For Bavarian Radio he has in London, indeed, he was able to give the first the work of Washington Irving. In the story, which recorded Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for solo violin No. 3, ‘Ballade’, Grieg`s Sonata in C minor, Ravel’s Sonata, performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, which was seems to mock authority in its portrayal of official Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34, and Melody, Op. 42, No.3, Bartók’s Solo Sonata and Bazzini’s Dance of the dedicated to him. incompetence, the Hymn to the Sun is sung by the evil Goblins. Wounded during war service in the Austrian army Queen of Shemakha, as she sets about the conquest of during the early months of the Great War, he was able to the ineffectual King Dodon. devote time to composition, particularly of the short The Oriental Dance 2 and Arab Song 5 are taken violin pieces for which he is well known. His return to from Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1888 symphonic suite the United States was not at first well received by the Scherherazade based on elements of The Arabian Naxos Radio public, and in 1924 he settled in Berlin, where he Nights, with its prominent rôle for a solo violin. The 70 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia @ remained based until the annexation of Austria in 1938. Indian Song is taken from the opera Sadko of 1897, in Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality In spite of the offer of French citizenship, he returned to which an Indian trader sings of the riches of his country, the United States, where he continued his career, until an before the hero of the opera sets out on his long and www.naxosradio.com accident forced him to reduce his schedule. He gave his varied adventures. The final work included here is a 8.557388 2 3 8.557388 4 8.557388 557388bk Kreisler US 13/6/05 10:28 am Page 5

Milana Chernyavska Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) Transcriptions for Violin and Piano Milana Chernyavska was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. At the age of five she took her first piano lessons before entering the School for Gifted Children at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory two years later. At seven she performed her 1 Hymn to the Sun 4:15 first concert in the Great Philharmonic Hall in Kiev and then went on to win (Nikolay Andreyevich RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844–1908): The Golden Cockerel) the first international chamber music competition Concertino Praga at only 2 Oriental Dance 4:35 twelve years of age. In 1990 she graduated with distinction from the (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) KREISLER Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Professor Sagaidachny. 3 Songs my mother taught me 2:57 She then undertook master-classes with Professors Bashkirov, Bloch and (Antonin DVO¤ÁK (1841–1904): Gypsy Melodies) others, and continued her studies at the Academy for Music and Theatre in 4 Munich with Professors Hoehenneder and Oppitz. Milana Chernyavskaya’s Scherzo 4:10 (Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893): Souvenir de Hapsal) artistic abilities have won her many prizes at both national and international Russian and levels, including a Gold Medal at the Vladimir and Regina Horowitz 5 Arab Song 4:31 Competition in 1994. Since 1994 she has also held the title Outstanding Artist (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) in the Ukraine. Since 1998 she has appeared as soloist with a number of 6 Humoresque 2:24 Slavonic orchestras, including the Munich Chamber and Ukrainian National Symphony (TCHAIKOVSKY: Deux morceaux, Op. 10, No. 2) Orchestras. Additionally she was recorded at performances with the Bavarian, 7 Slavonic Dance No. 2 5:08 Hessian, Middle German (MDR) and North German (NDR) Radio, as well as (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 10, Op. 72) Miniatures for the BBC, the VRS, Radio France and the National Ukrainian Radio. She 8 Chant sans paroles 3:23 has also collaborated in chamber music and other recordings for major record (TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Hapsal) companies, including a release selected as one of the best CDs of 2001 by 9 Humoresque 2:53 Songs my mother taught me BBC Music Magazine. Milana Chernyavskaya’s international career has taken (DVO¤ÁK: Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7) her to important music centres throughout Europe, as well as in Canada and the United States, and in Japan, with 0 Slavonic Fantasy 5:05 appearances in major festivals. In addition to her performances she has also taught at the Academy for Music and (DVO¤ÁK: Various themes) Oriental Dance Theatre in Munich. ! Negro Spiritual Melody 5:31 (DVO¤AK: Symphony No. 9 - Largo) Slavonic Dances @ Hindou Song 3:24 (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko) Humoresques # Slavonic Dance No. 1 3:34 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46) Andante Cantabile $ Slavonic Dance No. 3 5:36 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 16, Op. 72) % Indian Lament 4:41 (DVO¤ÁK: Sonatina, Op. 100 - Larghetto) ^ Andante cantabile 5:32 (TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet, Op. 11) & Fantasy 9:06 (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Various themes) Nicolas Koeckert, Violin Milana Chernyavska, Piano 8.557388 5 6 8.557388 557388bk Kreisler US 13/6/05 10:28 am Page 5

Milana Chernyavska Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) Transcriptions for Violin and Piano Milana Chernyavska was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. At the age of five she took her first piano lessons before entering the School for Gifted Children at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory two years later. At seven she performed her 1 Hymn to the Sun 4:15 first concert in the Great Philharmonic Hall in Kiev and then went on to win (Nikolay Andreyevich RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844–1908): The Golden Cockerel) the first international chamber music competition Concertino Praga at only 2 Oriental Dance 4:35 twelve years of age. In 1990 she graduated with distinction from the (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) KREISLER Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studied with Professor Sagaidachny. 3 Songs my mother taught me 2:57 She then undertook master-classes with Professors Bashkirov, Bloch and (Antonin DVO¤ÁK (1841–1904): Gypsy Melodies) others, and continued her studies at the Academy for Music and Theatre in 4 Munich with Professors Hoehenneder and Oppitz. Milana Chernyavskaya’s Scherzo 4:10 (Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893): Souvenir de Hapsal) artistic abilities have won her many prizes at both national and international Russian and levels, including a Gold Medal at the Vladimir and Regina Horowitz 5 Arab Song 4:31 Competition in 1994. Since 1994 she has also held the title Outstanding Artist (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) in the Ukraine. Since 1998 she has appeared as soloist with a number of 6 Humoresque 2:24 Slavonic orchestras, including the Munich Chamber and Ukrainian National Symphony (TCHAIKOVSKY: Deux morceaux, Op. 10, No. 2) Orchestras. Additionally she was recorded at performances with the Bavarian, 7 Slavonic Dance No. 2 5:08 Hessian, Middle German (MDR) and North German (NDR) Radio, as well as (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 10, Op. 72) Miniatures for the BBC, the VRS, Radio France and the National Ukrainian Radio. She 8 Chant sans paroles 3:23 has also collaborated in chamber music and other recordings for major record (TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Hapsal) companies, including a release selected as one of the best CDs of 2001 by 9 Humoresque 2:53 Songs my mother taught me BBC Music Magazine. Milana Chernyavskaya’s international career has taken (DVO¤ÁK: Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7) her to important music centres throughout Europe, as well as in Canada and the United States, and in Japan, with 0 Slavonic Fantasy 5:05 appearances in major festivals. In addition to her performances she has also taught at the Academy for Music and (DVO¤ÁK: Various themes) Oriental Dance Theatre in Munich. ! Negro Spiritual Melody 5:31 (DVO¤AK: Symphony No. 9 - Largo) Slavonic Dances @ Hindou Song 3:24 (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko) Humoresques # Slavonic Dance No. 1 3:34 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46) Andante Cantabile $ Slavonic Dance No. 3 5:36 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 16, Op. 72) % Indian Lament 4:41 (DVO¤ÁK: Sonatina, Op. 100 - Larghetto) ^ Andante cantabile 5:32 (TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet, Op. 11) & Fantasy 9:06 (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Various themes) Nicolas Koeckert, Violin Milana Chernyavska, Piano 8.557388 5 6 8.557388 557388rear Kreisler US 13/6/05 10:28 am Page 1

CMYK NAXOS NAXOS Gifted with a natural facility for playing the violin, Fritz Kreisler was adored by critics and audiences alike. Among his many gifts was the ability to make delightful arrangements of other composers’ melodies, which have all continued in the standard repertoire. Particular favourites include the Oriental Dance and Arab Song, taken from Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade, the best known of Dvofiák’s Gypsy Melodies, Songs my mother taught me, and the KREISLER: DDD KREISLER: so-called Negro Spiritual Melody, a transcription of the cor anglais theme from the slow movement of Dvofiák’s Symphony ‘From the New World’. 8.557388 Fritz Playing Time KREISLER 76:47 (1875–1962) Russian & Slavonic Miniatures Russian and Slavonic Miniatures Russian &SlavonicMiniatures 1 Hymn to the Sun (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel) 4:15 2 Oriental Dance (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) 4:35 3 Songs my mother taught me (DVO¤ÁK: Gypsy Melodies) 2:57 4 Scherzo (TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Hapsal) 4:10 5 Arab Song (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade) 4:31 6 Humoresque (TCHAIKOVSKY: Deux morceaux, Op. 10, No. 2) 2:24 7 Slavonic Dance No. 2 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 10, Op. 72) 5:08 8 Chant sans paroles (TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Hapsal) 3:23 www.naxos.com Made inCanada Booklet notesinEnglish 9 Humoresque (DVO¤ÁK: Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7) 2:53 & 0 Slavonic Fantasy (DVO¤ÁK: Various themes) 5:05 ! Negro Spiritual Melody (DVO¤AK: Symphony No. 9 - Largo) 5:31 2005 NaxosRightsInternationalLtd. @ Hindou Song (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko) 3:24 # Slavonic Dance No. 1 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46) 3:34 $ Slavonic Dance No. 3 (DVO¤ÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 16, Op. 72) 5:36 % Indian Lament (DVO¤ÁK: Sonatina, Op. 100 - Larghetto) 4:41 ^ Andante cantabile (TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet, Op. 11) 5:32 & Fantasy (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Various themes) 9:06

8.557388 Nicolas Koeckert, Violin • Milana Chernyavska, Piano 8.557388 Recorded in the Clara-Wieck-Auditorium, Sandhausen, Germany, from 14th to 16th December, 2003 Producer: Teije Van Geest • Engineer and Editor: Günter Appenheimer • Booklet Notes: Keith Anderson Please see the booklet for a more detailed track list Cover Photograph: Fritz Kreisler (The Tully Potter Collection)