Nicolas Altstaedt Shostakovich Weinberg Cello Concertos
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CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS 38116 NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT SHOSTAKOVICH WEINBERG CELLO CONCERTOS Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Michał Nesterowicz NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Strasbourg Philharmonic and Basel Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he was invited by Gidon Kremer to be Artistic Director of the Lockenhaus Festival German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is and in 2014, Adam Fischer asked him to follow renowned worldwide for his creativity and in his footsteps as Artistic Director of the Haydn versatility, in his captivating performances of Philharmonie, with whom he regularly performs repertoire on both modern and gut strings. at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Esterhazy Festival Awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and will tour both China and Japan in the next in 2010, he performed the Schumann concerto seasons. with the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo In recital, Nicolas performs solo and with Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival. Since then, he partners, Fazil Say and Alexander Lonquich. has performed worldwide with orchestras such He will tour both Europe and the US in 2016/17 as Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Czech Philharmonic season and will visit Istanbul, London Wigmore Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and New York Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and all the Carnegie Hall amongst others. In Autumn 17, BBC Orchestras working with conductors Sir Nicolas will tour Australia extensively as part of a Roger Norrington, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Musica Viva recital tour. Ashkenazy and Andrew Marcon amongst others. As a chamber musician, Nicolas regularly As a concerto soloist, highlights in 2016/17 and plays with Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, Pekka 2017/18 include performances with the Vienna Kuusisto, Jonathan Cohen and the Quatuor Symphony Orchestra on tour, the Deutsche Ébène performing regularly at Festivals in cluding Sinfonieorchester Berlin, NDR Elbphilharmonie Salzburg Mozart and Summer festivals, Verbier, Orchestra in the opening weeks of the Elb- BBC Proms, Lucerne, Gstaad, Musikfest Berlin, philharmonie, NDR Hanover, MDR Leipzig, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Utrecht and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Stavanger. Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Nicolas premieres new music and per forms Hungarian National Philharmonic, Detroit with composers like Thomas Ades, Jörg Widmann, Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Chamber, Matthias Pintscher, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly the Australian Chamber Orchestra on tour in and Fazil Say. He has commissioned the pianist/ Europe and English Chamber Orchestra, amongst composer Hauschka as part of this season as others. He returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony, Artistic Director of ‘Viva Cello’ Festival in Liestal in Orchestra della Svizzera Italiano, Duisburg Phil- 2016 inspired by a film script by Federico Fellini. harmonic as artist-in-residence, SWR Radio To date his recordings of cello concerti by 00 3 photo: Marco Borggreve Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumann and György Strauss’s Don Quixote and a recital disc with Ligeti have been acclaimed worldwide. Fazil Say. Future releases include a C P E Bach recording Nicolas was a BBC New Generation Artist with Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen as well 2010-2012 and a recipient of the ‘Borletti Buitoni as a recording of Shostakovich and Weinberg Trust Fellowship’ in 2009. He plays a violoncello concerti with DSO Berlin on Channel Classics, by Giulio Cesare Gigli, Rome around 1760. MICHAŁ NESTEROWICZ will conclude the symphonic cycles by Brahms, Schumann and Mahler and will also focus strong- ly on repertoire by Shostakovich, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov. Since winning the Cadaqués Orchestra European Last season Nesterowicz made successful Conducting Competition in 2008, Michał Nestero- debuts at Münchner Philharmoniker, WDR wicz has gone on to conduct many of the major Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique du orchestras and ensembles in Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bilbao Switzerland, Italy, France, Poland and the UK. Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Tampere Philharmonic In the 2015/16 season Nesterowicz will work Orchestra, and the Orchestra Filarmônica de with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Minas Gerais. Other orchestras he has performed the first time, as well as making debuts at Am ster- with include Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orquesta dam’s Concertgebouw (with Noord Neder lands Sinfónica de Galicia, Royal Philharmonic Orches- Orkest), Gulbenkian Orchestra, Buffalo Philhar- tra, Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, monic, Residentie Orkest and the Copen hagen Phil. Orchestra della Svizzera Italia and the Royal Building on successes in recent years Nestero- Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. wicz will return to NDR Sinfonieorchester Ham- Michał Nesterowicz studied at the Wrocław burg, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Academy of Music and graduated from the class Phil harmonique de Nice and Orquesta Ciudad of Marek Pijarowski in 1997. He was among de Granada, as well as continuing his regular the winners of the 6th Grzegorz Fitelborg Inter- rela tionships with Orquestra Simfònica de national Conducting Competition in Katowice Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya – leading them and has previously been Artistic Director at the on tour to France – and Sinfonieorchester Basel. Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra (Gdansk) In his fourth season as Artistic Director of and Principal Conductor at the Orquesta Sinfó- Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Nesterowicz nica de Chile. Recording session photo: Jonas Sacks 4 00 DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE- plasticity. It quickly became well known for its A well-kept secret Quartet to Weinberg. From the 1960s the latter ORCHESTER BERLIN commitment to 20th century music, and its ability For the western world Moisei Vainberg, or enjoyed his greatest success as a composer. to attract first-rate conductors. In 1964, Lorin (likewise in Russian) Mieczyslaw Weinberg was Although he was not a member of the communist Maazel took on the artistic responsibility for the for long a well-kept secret of the Soviet Union. party, and as an immigrant was viewed with orchestra. He was succeeded by Riccardo Chailly He was born in Warsaw, where his father worked suspicion by the Russian authorities, the best For more than 65 years the Deutsches Symphonie- (1982-89), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1989-99), Kent for a Jewish theatre as composer and musical Russian musicians queued up to perform his Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) has distinguished Nagano (2000-06) and Ingo Metzmacher (2007- director. In 1939, with German troops at his heels, music. When he died in Moscow on 26 February itself as one of Germany’s leading orchestras. The 10). Since the start of the 2012-13 season the Weinberg fled to the Soviet Union, where he 1996 at the age of seventy-six he left an im- number of renowned Music Directors, the scope 34-year-old Ossetian conductor Tugan Sokhiev is studied composition at the conservatory of pressive oeuvre, including no less than 150 songs, and variety of its work, and its particular DSO Berlin’s new Music Director. He has already Minsk with Vassily Zolotaryov, a pupil of Rimsky- 26 symphonies, 19 sonatas, 7 operas and 17 string emphasis on modern and contemporary music, held the title of Music Director Designate since Korsakov. Two years later, pursued once again by quartets. According to Shostakovich the two makes the ensemble unique. It was founded in the beginning of the 2010-11 season. war, he settled in Tashkent in Uzbekistan. It was composers competed to write the greater number 1946 as the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester by the The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from here that Weinberg sent his First Symphony of string quartets: Weinberg won by two works. broadcasting station in the American sector of and its history have become emblematic of the to Shostakovich, who was so impressed that he At the time when he was working on his Cello Berlin. In 1956 the orchestra was renamed the democratic and cultural renewal of Germany arranged for him to come to live in Moscow in Concerto, however, Weinberg, like Shostakovich, Radio Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (RSO Berlin), following the defeat of National Socialism and the 1943. The two composers became good friends, suffered under the Great Terror of the notorious and in 1993, to avoid confusion in Berlin’s newly end of World War II. That is how the orchestra has frequently playing through scores on two pianos, years 1948-1949. Composition was not an reunited cultural landscape, the orchestra been perceived at its concerts in Berlin and on inspiring one another, and performing their own innocent pastime in the Soviet Union. The decided to relinquish its familiar name in favour tours throughout Germany and the rest of Europe, music together for the obligatory inspections of authorities claimed that the elitist string quartet of its present one. North and South America, and in the Near, Middle the bond of composers. Shostakovich also assisted was at odds with the ideological principles of Ferenc Fricsay became the orchestra’s first and Far East. Its groundbreaking radio and his seven year younger friend in finding work. All communist social realism, and that its intimacy Music Director. He set the standard and defined recording productions have further solidified this this in Moscow, where Weinberg was to remain was contrary to the requirements of culture for the repertoire. The orchestra’s sound was charac- image. In 2011 the orchestra was awarded a for the rest of his life. In the meantime his family