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557595bk Hummel US 13/6/05 4:20 pm Page 4 Conservatory Special Lyceum and St Petersburg Conservatory with Marina Volf. At the age of nine she performed in one evening’s programme Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, a feat still unprecedented for a child of that age and recognised as a milestone in the history of piano performances. Two years later she performed HUMMEL Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in Moscow Conservatory’s Great Hall with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Polina Osetinskaya attracted major television companies which filmed documentaries of her with two live televised appearances in the United States and Russia in 1985 and 1986, seen by millions on both sides of the Atlantic. At the Violin Concerto ages of eighteen and nineteen she completed two Japanese concert tours, also performing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Tokyo Philharmonic. She has appeared as a soloist with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, and in 2002 was a Triumph Award recipient for her outstanding contribution to Russian culture. Her international career brings a Piano and Violin Concerto large repertoire including the most complicated solo, chamber and orchestral programmes, from the early Baroque to the contemporary. She has recorded with the Naxos, Sony, and Bel Air labels. Alexander Trostiansky, Violin • Polina Osetinskaya, Piano Russian Philharmonic Orchestra The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra is firmly rooted in Russia’s rich musical traditions, and has achieved an Russian Philharmonic Orchestra impressive and outstanding musical quality by drawing its musicians from the highest ranks of Russia’s most famous orchestras such as the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra and the State Symphony Gregory Rose Orchestra.The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra was originally formed as a recording ensemble and has gone on to receive high acclaim also for its concert performances. In addition to regular recordings for leading international companies, the orchestra has also undertaken tours to Turkey, Austria, Germany, China, Taiwan, Finland and elsewhere. Dmitry Yablonsky was appointed Music Advisor to the orchestra in 2003. Gregory Rose The versatility of the international conductor Gregory Rose has encompassed the orchestral, operatic and choral repertoire of the classical, romantic and twentieth-century masters and leading composers of today, including many premières. He studied violin, piano and singing as a young child and later was a pupil of Hans Jelinek at the Vienna Academy and of Egon Wellesz at Oxford University, both former students of Arnold Schoenberg, and of his father, the choral conductor and composer Bernard Rose. He is Music Director of the Jupiter Orchestra, Jupiter Singers, the amplified vocal quartet, Singcircle and COMA London Ensemble. He has conducted throughout Eastern and Western Europe and the Far East, and highlights of his career include appearances with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, performances of music by Arvo Pärt and Xenakis with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, an all-Rachmaninov programme with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a concert with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, a recording with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and concerts with the Israel Camerata and the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Ireland, and the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka. He has conducted operas by Bizet, Scott Joplin, Virgil Thomson, Berthold Goldschmidt, Samuel Barber, Nino Rota, Gian Carlo Menotti, Malcolm Williamson and Toshio Hosokawa. As a composer he has written works for orchestra and for chorus, and many arrangements. He has also become a specialist in the music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, having completed his Violin Concerto in 1997. Gregory Rose has worked closely with composers such as Stockhausen, John Cage and Steve Reich, and appeared in festivals throughout Europe, including two BBC Promenade concerts with Singcircle. He has recorded for many international television and radio stations, and has made highly acclaimed recordings for a number of leading record companies. He is a professor of conducting at Trinity College of Music, London, and conducts operas, orchestral and ensemble concerts for the college. 8.557595 4 557595bk Hummel US 13/6/05 4:20 pm Page 2 Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) The Concerto for Piano and Violin dates from 1804 the original Traeg Edition, Vienna, 1805. Violin Concerto • Concerto for Piano and Violin and is in the traditional three movements, Allegro con As would be expected, the solo violin part in the brio, Andante con moto and Rondo. The delightful Violin Concerto is considerably more complex and Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born in Pressburg, now which bore the title ‘concerto’. There are 54 volumes of interplay between the two solo instruments displays less decorated than the violin part in the Concerto for Piano Bratislava, in the Slovak Republic, and was considered Hummel’s manuscripts in the British Library in London, virtuosity than Hummel employs in his solo concertos, and Violin. The first movement is typically in sonata one of Europe’s finest pianist-composers. A child which were purchased in 1884, and amongst these is a but nevertheless many passages are considerably florid. In form, although the composer varies the format by prodigy, he became a pupil of Mozart at the age of eight, volume containing an incomplete Violin Concerto, bound the opening movement the instruments take it in turns to introducing some new ideas in the final section. The slow the two forming a life-long friendship. His successful together with the famous Trumpet Concerto. Hummel introduce melodies, with the second instrument often movement, where he uses strings only to accompany the début concert as a pianist in 1787 was followed in 1788 would have spent a great deal of time on the latter, since developing the material, frequently introducing more soloist, is a beautiful, gentle Adagio where the lyricism of by a four-year tour to Germany, Denmark, Scotland and he wanted to make a good impression as the new elaborate decoration. It is of particular interest that the solo violin would not be out of place in an opera. The England with his father, the conductor Johannes Hummel. Kapellmeister at Eisenstadt, and this was to be performed Hummel should have composed his own cadenza in this thematic material of the final Rondo varies from the jovial On his return, Johann studied with Albrechtsberger, in his first major concert for the Esterházy family. movement since it was often left to the soloists or to opening theme to teasing triplet passages, lyrical music Salieri and Haydn while he himself taught, performed and Therefore it is likely that he abandoned work on the Violin fellow composers to add these. In the second movement and strident chordal music. composed. It was during this period that he formed a long, Concerto, intending to take it up at a later date, and he uses one of his favourite musical forms, the theme and The world première of the Hummel/Rose Violin stormy friendship with his great rival, Beethoven. In 1804 preferred instead to compose the Concerto for Piano and variations, of which there are six, and he completes the Concerto was given at St John’s, Smith Square, London he was appointed Konzertmeister to Prince Nikolaus Violin. The appearance of the Violin Concerto by his great concerto with a playful Rondo, for which I have on 2nd June 1998, performed by Jaakko Kuusisto and the Esterházy at Eisenstadt, following the retirement of rival Beethoven in 1806 could easily have dissuaded him composed a cadenza. In the middle section of this Jupiter Orchestra, conducted by Gregory Rose. Haydn, a post he retained until 1811. While at Eisenstadt from completing his own concerto. movement Hummel deviates into the minor key, he composed several concertos, sacred works, including Although the concerto was never completed, all the producing a short episode of gravity as a contrast to the five large-scale Masses, and many works for solo piano. solo violin part is extant, in two different hands: high spirits of the original theme. This edition is based on Gregory Rose He also composed a number of short theatrical pieces, and Hummel’s hand, and a student’s, with the short Adagio minuets and dances for orchestra. being completely in Hummel’s hand. I added orchestral In 1811 Johann Nepomuk returned to Vienna and parts to several passages in the outer movements, as well Alexander Trostiansky continued life as a pianist and composer, marrying a well- as editing the complete work and composing cadenzas for The violinist Alexander Trostiansky was born in 1972 into a family of musicians, and studied with B. Trostiansky, M. known singer, Elizabeth Röckel, with whom he had two the first and last movements. Like several concertos of the Liberman, and I. Bochkova. He has been a prize-winner at many prestigious international competitions, including the sons. After a brief, unhappy period as Kapellmeister in time, it is composed for a small orchestra, without Premio Paganini, Centre d’Arts in Orford (Canada), F. Schubert and 20th Century Music, and the Tchaikovsky Stuttgart, he and his family settled in Weimar, where his clarinets, trumpets or timpani. The solo violin part is Competition. He has participated in several festivals, including the Moscow Autumn, Musik im Michel, December main responsibilities lay in directing operas and special certainly very virtuosic and compares interestingly with Evenings by S. Richter and the Oleg Kagan Musik Fest, and has recorded for a number of major companies. He has events for the ducal court and he developed a close the virtuoso nature of the composer’s works for solo piano appeared in concert throughout Russia and Europe, as well as in the United States and Canada. His wide repertoire friendship with Goethe.

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