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Johanna Martzy Ferenc Fricsay • Jean Antonietti Berlin, 1953 - 1966 22 tracks JOHANNA MARTZY Ferenc Fricsay • Jean antonietti Berlin, 1953 - 1966 Dvořák | Brahms | Bach | Händel | Vivaldi Kreisler | Fiocco | ravel | de Falla antonín DVořáK (1841-1904) antonio ViValDi (1678-1741) | Violin concerto in a Minor, op. 53 32:34 ottorino respiGHi (1879-1936) I. Allegro ma non troppo 11:31 Violin sonata in D Major, rV 10 9:03 II. Adagio ma non troppo 9:56 I. Moderato (a fantasia) 2:15 III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo 11:07 II. Allegro moderato 2:45 III. Largo 1:27 IV. Vivace 2:36 JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin sonata no. 1 in G Major, op. 78 25:43 I. Vivace ma non troppo 10:08 Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) II. Adagio 7:32 rondino über ein thema von Beethoven 2:44 III. Allegro molto moderato 8:03 JOSEPH-HECTOR FIOCCO (1703-1741) | JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Bent o’neill Violin sonata no. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 16:52 suite no. 1 in G Major (Allegro) 3:20 I. Adagio 4:26 II. Fuga. Allegro 5:34 Maurice raVel (1875-1937) III. Siciliana 3:52 Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré 2:54 IV. Presto 3:00 Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) | GeorG FrieDricH HänDel (1685-1759) Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) Violin sonata in a Major, op. 1 no. 3 8:12 Danse espagnole (from La vida breve) 3:353:35 I. Andante 2:11 II. Allegro 1:54 III. Adagio 1:06 IV. Allegro 3:01 Johanna Martzy – the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Buda- year later, at the age of 23, she moved western European music metropolises the Memory of a legendary Violinist pest had included Joseph Szigeti, Jelly to Geneva, Switzerland and won the and rapidly made her name familiar to d’Arányi, André Gertler, Stefi Geyer, Concours International d’Execution in that concertgoers. In addition, she regularly The name of the Hungarian violinist Sandór Végh and the later conductor city during the same year. The perfor- commuted during the 1950s between her Johanna Martzy is only known to experts Eugene Ormandy. Hubay, who taught mance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto Swiss residence and Scotland, where her today. Nonetheless, the meteoric begin- Martzy privately at first, prophesied a with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande first husband, Béla de Csilléry, was music ning of her career was highly promising. great future for her. She was accepted under Ernest Ansermet, part of the prize director at Trinity College in Glenal- Long-term success would surely have at the Music Academy in 1932 and taken awarded by this competition, is consid- mond, Perthshire. In late 1949, in Glarus, placed this musician on a level with the under the wing of Nándor Zsolt, an assis- ered the beginning of her career. she met an amateur violinist and violin greatest of all violinists if adverse circum- tant of Hubay. After the deaths of both On the occasion of a performance at the collector resident there, Daniel Tschudi, stances and a far too early death had not professors, in 1936 in 1937 respectively, Dutch radio station VARA, she became a Swiss publisher. On the occasion of stood in her way. she joined the class of Ferenc Gabriel. acquainted with the director of the music her second visit to Tschudi in the spring In 1940 and 1941 she won two prizes at department there: Jean Antonietti (1915- of 1950, he offered her a violin from his Johanna Martzy was born on 26 Octo- the Academy, completing her studies one 1994). Alongside occasional performances collection, the Carlo Bergonzi „Salabue“ ber 1924 in Timisoara, then still in Hun- year later. In 1943, her last year in Buda- as a piano soloist, his career soon became of 1733, as a permanent loan. It became gary and today the second largest city pest, she made her public debut as soloist centred on the function of accompanying, Johanna Martzy’s preferred instrument in Romania. The youngest of five chil- with an orchestra, on the occasion of a in which capacity he worked with Elisa- from this time on. In addition, Daniel dren, she began playing the violin at the guest appearance of Willem Mengelberg beth Schwarzkopf, Tibor de Machula and Tschudi acquired a Stradivari („ex Huber- age of six, initially studying with a local conducting the Budapest Philharmonic. other renowned artists. He performed in mann Kreisler“ of 1733) in 1956, but this teacher, Josef Brandeisz. He recog- Very soon after the occupation of Hun- concert with Johanna Martzy for the first instrument never completely satisfied nised her extraordinary talent and sent gary by German troops on 19 March 1944, time in February 1949 in Amsterdam, just Johanna Martzy. her to Budapest in order to work with there began a massive ghettoisation and a few days after Martzy’s debut with the In 1957 the musician embarked upon Jenő Hubay, Hungary’s most impor- deportation of Hungarian Jews. Johanna Concertgebouw Orchestra performing the her first tour of the USA, the climax of tant violin pedagogue at that time. Jenő Martzy attempted to flee Hungary. She Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. which was the performance of Bach‘s Hubay (1858-1937) was then, at 71 years arrived in Austria and remained in an Intensive concert touring began in 1950; Violin Concerto in E major with the New of age, a living legend whose pupils at internment camp there until 1946. One these tours took the violinist to the York Philharmonic under André Cluytens. In August 1959 there was a momentous husband in the late 1950s, Johanna Martzy with her fellow countryman István Hajdu of the conductor Sergiu Celibidache, éclat that apparently heralded the end of had married her long-time patron Daniel (Jean Antonietti had remained her faith- who categorically rejected recordings, the ascendency of her career. The Czech Tschudi. A daughter, Sabina, was born ful accompanist until at least 1966) and can lead to lasting presence through skil- Philharmonic Orchestra had refused to to the couple in February 1960. With gave private lessons. She performed ful play with the media: in the case of appear with her as soloist at a guest per- her new role as a mother in a very well- in public for the very last time in 1976. Celibidache, this was achieved through formance at the Edinburgh Festival. She to-do atmosphere, the purely financial Her husband died two years thereafter, provocative newspaper interviews and her then husband de Csilléry were motivation to perform concerts probably in April 1978, and cancer led to her own and by allowing radio recordings of his accused of having supported the regime waned. She completed a tour of South death just a little over a year later, on concerts). Johanna Martzy’s recording of Admiral Miklós Horthy during the America in 1960, as well as concerts in 13 August 1979. career lasted only a short while, due to final years of the war. The background Canada and the USA and, in 1962/1963, The brief obituaries (not even the Neue a chain of unfortunate circumstances. of the refusal to perform, however, a final USA tour on the West Coast. Zürcher Zeitung remembered her with an After her Amsterdam debut at the Con- was that Johanna Martzy had stated in Her final appearance at the London Proms extensive appreciation) that only referred certgebouw, she caught the attention of a newspaper interview that she refused was in 1966, and one year later she was to her biographical stations made clear Deutsche Grammophon, which initially to appear in states of the Eastern Bloc, invited for the last time to perform con- to what extent her star had faded in the engaged her for three years. In particular, including her homeland. Many Hungarians certs with the Berlin Philharmonic and the nearly twenty years after the Edinburgh the recording of the Violin Concerto of in fact, including a number of intellectuals, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich. When she éclat. Antonín Dvořák under the direction of left their country at the latest after the was invited to play in Budapest 1969, she the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay failed national uprising in 1956. Instead broke her oath not to perform in the Since the twentieth century at the latest, brought her a great deal of recognition. of performing with the Czech Philhar- Eastern Bloc so that she could visit her with the rise of recording technique, the The studio production of the Violin Con- monic, she ultimately played with another mother, who had remained in Budapest. posthumous fame of a musician is no certo of Peter Tchaikovsky, however, also orchestra in Edinburgh. It is entirely con- During her stay, she was diagnosed with longer dependent only on his/her stage with Fricsay, stipulated by a contract for ceivable that the éclat was to serve as hepatitis A; back in Switzerland, the diag- presence and the accompanying daily late 1953, was never realised. A lucra- political means to harm Johanna Martzy’s nosis was expanded to hepatitis B. Under critiques. Nowadays, the medial avail- tive offer by the producer Walter Legge reputation. Engagements now became these circumstances, she had to reduce ability of sound carriers is what primarily convinced the violinist to switch to the less numerous; private reasons also came her concert activities still further. During decides the public presence of the artist. English firmColumbia . Her third recording into play. After the divorce from her first this period she occasionally performed (Even an attitude of refusal such as that engagement in London was, at the same time, the Columbia debut of the conductor Johanna Martzy’s “official” recording the Dvořák Concerto with the RIAS Sym- Stravinsky.
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