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BEETHOVEN Magazine Warszawa no 1 26 March –03 April 2009 BEETHOVEN magazine A whole life with music Interview with Elżbieta Penderecka p. 3 ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER on herself p. 4 –5 Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski on culture p. 7 Beethoven and wine p. 10 Sunday, 29th March Tuesday, 31st March Thursday, 2nd April Who, where, String Quartet in F major, Il ritorno di Tobia , the first oratorio Op. 59 was written just six years written by Haydn, is a work of no after String Quartet No. 1 from lesser stature than his later The Cre - when... Op. 18 written in the same ation and The Seasons , and is well Mariusz key, yet they seem to be worth recalling on the 200th an - Kwiecień a whole epoch apart. niversary of the composer’s death. The first night with Ludwig The biblical oratorio resounds in van Beethoven’s quartet is the interpretation of Wiener performed by Leipziger Akademie under Martin Hasel - Streichquartett. böck with the participation of The first Warsaw recital by Mariusz [ The Royal Castle, 5 pm recognised soloists and a sine From the Editor Kwiecień , the Polish baritone adored by nomine choir. Earlier the the audiences of New York’s Metropoli - Geringas Baryton Trio and Keiko It is hard to imagine that tan Opera, who found in Don Giovanni Violin by G. B. Guadagnini Tamura play Haydn’s chamber five years have passed from Mozart’s opera the role of his life. music. already since the How will this singer – born for the Between the age of 9 and 14, Mendel- [ first Ludwig van The Royal Castle, 5 pm stage – cope with lyrical works? In the ssohn composed a dozen string sym - [ Beethoven Easter Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 7:30 pm programme: songs by Schumann, phonies. One of them, “La Suisse”, as Festival in Warsaw. Do you remember the poster with Beethoven, Karłowicz, and Ravel. well as Beethoven’s and Berg’s works Beethoven’s pop-art portrait? I remem - Howard Watkins on the piano. for a string orchestra, will be pre - ber the determination with which Elż - [ The Royal Castle, 4 pm sented by Wrocław Chamber Orche- bieta Penderecka organised the festival stra “Leopoldinum”, conducted by its under the pressure of time in a new When, at the age of six, she picked up a musical director Ernst Kovacica , an place and new conditions. It very violin for the first time, she had known Austrian violinist of renown. Kovacic quickly became a Warsaw festival, and how to play the piano for a year. The plays a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini gained the attention and friendship of great violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is from 1754. people of the capital. I know a few peo - returning to Warsaw for the inaugura - [Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 7:30 pm ple who simply cannot wait for the tion of the Festival in her most classi - next one. I have not missed a single cal way: with Beethoven’s Violin Wednesday, 1st April one, and I am very glad because I have concerto in D major, Op. 61. A moving Beethoven’s early years, witnessed memorable concerts by moment not only for those who have and the third of six string Feliks Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Gidon Kremer, the Norddeutscher - followed the development of her mar - quartets from Op. 18, rundfunk Orchester from Hamburg, vellous talent from the first record and the antipodes of Friday, 3rd April and the marvellous cellist Natalia Gut - with Herbert von Karajan. the genre – the late, The concert conducted by Ola Rud - man. I remember the stunning inter - royal pieces composed ner will present one of the threads pretation of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven towards in the multi-faced artistic creation of under Paavo Järvi, illumination with the music of Bruckner after his Sym - the end of his life: Great Felix Mendelssohn, and his broad phony No. 8 conducted by Marek Fugue and String Quar- humanist interests. The Polish pre - Janowski, and finally, rapture with the Krzysztof tet in C sharp minor miere of Humboldt Cantata , dedi - personality of Trevor Pinnock. Penderecki Op. 131. The mystery cated to the eminent philosopher The festival surprised me. Not only with of human genius will of whom Mendelssohn was a stu - its organisational panache. With the be scaled again by the dent, and Die erste Walpurgisnacht daring posters too. First, it was Wilhelm Leipziger cantata, inspired by a poem by Sasnal, then came the time for the At the Festival, his place at the pulpit Streichquartett. Goethe, with whom the composer ea - Twożywo Group, this year it is Bartek will be taken by Krzysztof Pen - [ The Royal Castle, 5 pm gerly corresponded in his childhood. Materka, and the next – Marcin Ma - derecki , who dedicated to Mutter his Featuring: Agnieszka Rehlis (alto), ciejowski: artists from quite a different Violin Concerto No. 2 Metamorpho - The famous English Chamber Orche- Thomas Michael Allen (tenor), artistic constellation design posters for sen . The soloist is accompanied by the stra is to perform a monographic con - Thomas E. Bauer (baritone), Woj - a festival of classical music. Yet we Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra . cert devoted to Joseph Haydn, ciech Gierlach (bass), Choir of the should not wonder at that. Beethoven [Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 7:30 pm Beethoven’s teacher and the authority Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic – a free man, rebel, outsider, and ge - of classicism in music. The soloists and the National Polish Radio Sym - nius – should be the patron of artists of Monday, 30th March are Arto Noras and Ralf Gothóni . phony Orchestra, Katowice . all shades. With its powerful chords and lyrical [ [ He could be unbearable for his patrons, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 7:30 pm Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 7:30 pm tenderness, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Piano and yet they adored him, sparing no Concerto No. 1 suits perfectly the per - money to keep him in Vienna. The BEETHOVEN forming capacity of Konstantin MAGAZINE Princes Lobkowitz, Lichnowsky, Kinsky, Wydawca: / Publisher and others should be a role model for Stowarzyszenie im. Ludwiga van Beethovena / Ludwig van Beethoven Association sponsors and politicians financing (or Elżbieta Penderecka: otherwise) culture in Poland. Konstantin Prezes Zarządu, Dyrektor Generalny / President of the Board, General Director The Viennese contemporaries of Scherbakov 31-147 Kraków, ul. Długa 19/4 Beethoven – to quote the composer’s www.beethoven.org.pl biographer George R. Marek – treated Dyrektor wydawniczy/ pomysłodawca / Publishing / Idea : Andrzej Giza only three things seriously: food, the - Redaktor Naczelna / Editor-in-Chief : Anna S. Dębowska atre, and music. Oh, the happy place! Scherbakov , a Russian living in Dyrektor Artystyczny / Artistic Director : Witold Siemaszkiewicz May Warsaw become a city whose au - Switzerland, former student of the leg - Redakcja tekstów / Editing : Anna S. Dębowska thorities and residents value great art endary Professor of Moscow Conserva - Autorzy / Texts : Dorota Kozińska, Ada Ginał, Sylwia Borowska, Jan Rokita, Jacek Marczyński, to the same extent. tory, Lev Naumov, and a prize-winner We have two weeks of the Festival to Piotr Matwiejczuk (Polskie Radio), Anna S. Dębowska in piano competitions of great renown. Ilustracje / Illustrations: Marcin Maciejowski, Bartek Materka look forward to. Let us make the most The Beethoven Academy Orchestra Zdjęcia / Photographs : of them. under Michał Dworzyński will play Getty Images, Corbis, Flash Press Media , East News, Bruno Fidrych Anna S. Dębowska Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss. Tłumaczenia / Translation : HOBBiT Piotr Krasnowolski i Paweł Radwan Editor-in-Chief of the„Beethoven Magazine“ Korekta angielska / English proofreading : Benjamin Koschalka [ Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 7:30 pm © 2009 Stowarzyszenie im. Ludwiga van Beethovena 2 Zawsze wstawał wcześnie, o piątej lub szóstej - lubił pracować wczesnym porankiem. Po śniadaniu wyruszał na spacer. A whole life with music Interview with Elżbieta Penderecka President of the Board of the Ludwig van Beethoven Association and Director General of the Festival. Paving the way for young talented people is a new role for the Ludwig van Beethoven Association. Besides organising festivals, we manage artists Anna S. Dębowska: Music has ac - Thanks to my husband, I met Artur fear of contacts with people. Yet once The artists are the mezzosoprano companied you... Rubinstein, with whom we spent you got to know him more closely, he Agnieszka Rehlis, the soprano Izabela Elżbieta Penderecka: – ... since I was many a wonderful evening. We be - was a nice person. Matuła, the cellists Rafał Kwiatkowski a child. My grandfather and great- came close friends with “Slava” Ros - How do you recall your acquain - and Bartosz Koziak, the violinist grandfather played the viola. My fa - tropovich in the 1970s. I got to know tance with Herbert von Karajan? Agata Szymczewska – a prize-winner ther was the concertmaster of cellos at Sir John Barbirolli, and the legendary We met in Berlin, where my husband of the Wieniawski Competition, who Kraków Philharmonic and Professor Eugene Ormandy, the head of the and I lived in the 60s and 70s. My hus - has now, just after a series of concerts of the Academy of Music in Kraków. Philadelphia Orchestra, a marvellous band went to many of Karajan’s re - with Krystian Zimerman and Kaja He trained close to 100 graduates. conductor open to contemporary hearsals, and I accompanied him Danczowska, had an opportunity (to - Did he take you to concerts? music. It was he who soon after the there. Karajan did not perform too gether with Rafał Kwiatkowski) to Yes, on Fridays and Saturdays, I used world premiere in Münster conducted much contemporary music, but he participate in recording Grażyna to go to the Philharmonic Hall and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Utrenya in conducted a few works by Krzysztof Bacewicz’s chamber music on the had my place in the box on the first Philadelphia. Yet we also frequently Penderecki, including the Polymor - Deutsche Grammophon label..
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