570469bk Rode US 2/12/08 12:56 Page 5 SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern Nicolás Pasquet Established in the years after the war, the SWR Radio Nicolás Pasquet was born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Orchestra was formed by the amalgamation in 1951 of the where he studied violin and conducting at the State Music light music orchestras of Kaiserslautern and Koblenz, to win Academy, before continuing his studies in Germany in an international reputation under Emmerich Smola, principal Nuremberg and Stuttgart. In 1984 and 1986 he won the conductor until 1987, to be followed by Klaus Arp (1987- National Competition for Young Conductors of the German Pierre 1995), Peter Falk (1995-2001) and Grzegorz Nowak (2001- Council of Music, and in 1987 he won first prize at the 37th 004). The orchestra has collaborated with leading German International Conducting Competition in Besançon. He has composers of popular music and with distinguished soloists guest-conducted numerous renowned German and foreign and guest conductors, with an increasingly wide repertoire in orchestras, including the Stuttgart Philharmonic, NDR RODE concert performances, broadcasts, film music, recordings and Hannover, Hamburg Philharmonic, Orchestre du Capitole de opera. In September 2007 the SWR Radio Orchestra merged Toulouse, the Brisbane Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra to become Munich Radio Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra and the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. many others. He has served as Chief Conductor of the Pécs Photograph by Isabelle Girard National Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie and the Coburg Theatre Orchestra. He is Professor of Conducting at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar, where he coaches an international Violin Concertos conducting course and is Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra. Nos. 7, 10 and 13 Friedemann Eichhorn, Get this free download from Classicsonline! Violin Viotti: Violin Sinfonia Concertante No. 1 in F major: III. Rondo: (Allegro) Copy this Promotion Code NaxSmxmwPkWQ and go to www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/viot6_main South West German Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at Radio Orchestra, http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. Kaiserslautern 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. Nicolás Pasquet 8.570469 5 6 8.570469 570469bk Rode US 2/12/08 12:56 Page 2 Pierre Rode (1774–1830) manual of instruction. The pedagogical element was feature a moderato or similar tempo and three solo colleague Baillot. The opening Allegro comodo Concerto No. 10, leads via a cadenza to the finale, in Violin Concertos Nos. 7, 10 and 13 never far from the surface for Rode and his colleagues, sections. The first solo is the longest and weightiest, begins quietly with a theme beginning with a half note this case a spritely 6/8 Allegretto, effectively and and was part and parcel of the energy released by the and the second solo section is usually in the nature of a (minim); this theme will be taken up by the soloist and joyously bringing the thirteen concertos to a close. Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode was born in Bordeaux on spent the years 1814 to 1821 in Berlin, where he met Revolution. Both Rode’s 24 Caprices and Kreutzer’s contrasting section rather than a development of will form a pattern, half note (minim) followed by 16th February, 1774. The son of a perfumer, he showed and married his wife and became an intimate friend of 40 (later 42) Etudes remain among the most studied previous thematic material. The final solo section quarters (crotchets), eighths (quavers), triplets, that early musical precosity and was taken to Paris at the the Mendelssohn family. The mother of Felix and violin pedagogical works ever written. Besides the usually repeats thematic material from the first section, will unify the movement. The beautiful Adagio, as in Bruce R. Schueneman age of thirteen by his teacher, Flauvel. Shortly after his Fanny Mendelssohn wrote that, when Rode and his pedagogical element that went hand in hand with the though sometimes Rode introduces new material in this arrival in Paris, Rode became the star pupil of wife left, the “charm of our musical winter evenings … new beginning envisioned by the Revolution, Rode’s section as well. In the first movement of Concerto Giovanni Battista Viotti, the foremost violinist of the dwindled completely.” In 1821 Rode returned to the time and place was eminently an age of opera, and No. 7, marked Moderato, the soloist enters after the day and the founder of the modern French violin Bordeaux area where he now lived in semi-retirement. Rode’s concertos, with their emphasis on the singing orchestral introduction with a theme that begins with school. In 1790 he made his solo début in Viotti’s In 1828 he made a last attempt at a public concert in line, reflect this. His solo début in 1790 was reputedly the descending A minor triad. After passage-work and Violin Concerto No. 13; he also joined the orchestra at Paris. The concert was such a fiasco that some given between acts in the opera, and the Holy Week a shift to the major, the soloist sings a lovely dolce the Théâtre de Monsieur, where he met his longtime commentators believed it hastened his death on 25th concerts of 1792 were given during the time of year theme (heard previously in the orchestral introduction). colleague Pierre Baillot. Rode’s “breakout” year was November, 1830. that theatres were closed by law. The last years of the The movement reworks these elements, a cadenza 1792. During the traditional Holy Week concerts, Rode The concertos of Rode were born at a time of social eighteenth century also saw the flowering of serving as bridge between the second and third solo Friedemann Eichhorn performed six times between the 1st and 13th April, and musical tumult. The era of Rode’s greatest fame romanticism. As classical as the concertos of Rode and sections. The Adagio is a song in ABA form, while the these perfomances included two Viotti concertos, one a coincided with the beheading of Louis XVI, the his colleagues now sound to modern ears, the aim of Rondo is a lively piece written in Rode’s best good- Friedemann Eichhorn was born in the German city of Münster in 1971. He première. During the next sixteen years Rode lived the violence and upheaval of the French Revolution, the the French school composers was thoroughly romantic. humoured vein. studied violin with Valery Gradow in Mannheim, Alberto Lysy at the life of a travelling virtuoso, though he also joined the rise of Napoleon, and the ensuing Napoleonic wars. This is made clear in Pierre Baillot’s summing up of The first movement, Moderato, of Rode’s Violin International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland and with Margaret violin department of the newly organized Paris Even a relatively non-political musician such as Viotti French school theory and technique The Art of the Concerto No. 10 in B minor, probably written between Pardee at the Juilliard School New York. He also studied musicology and Conservatoire. There he collaborated with Baillot and found life transformed in the 1790s: as a foreigner Violin, which states that the violinist’s “inspirations 1804 and 1808, begins with a martial orchestral law at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz where he received a Kreutzer on a manual of instruction for the violin. Viotti incurred the suspicion of both royalists and seem to spring from the heart of this creative statement, and, unlike Concerto No. 7, includes Ph.D. He has performed with Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Oistrakh, Gidon Rode was named solo violinist for the musique revolutionists and was forced to leave Paris in 1792. enthusiasm [for nature]”. Rode’s music is a reflection trumpets in the orchestra. After the usual Kremer, Saschko Gawriloff and Yuri Bashmet and has appeared in particulière of the First Consul, Napoleon, and was Rode and his Viotti-influenced colleagues had learned of a new romantic sensibility that casts the soloist as peregrinations, the soloist emerges with a dramatic international music centres. Friedemann Eichhorn was appointed as one of briefly solo violinist at the Opéra. Rode spent the years their lessons well, and the style and technique of the virtuoso and hero. His music was born in tumult and lyrical statement that, after passage-work, devolves to the youngest professors of violin at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar from 1804 to 1808 in Russia, where he was appointed French school concertos influenced Beethoven and the revolution, and his concertos are crucial in the one of Rode’s signature dolce themes; the first solo in 2002. He is head of the String Department and Artistic Director of the court violinist to the Tsar. His return to Paris after his larger tradition of the concerto. This style included a development of the art of the violin and especially the ends in a flurry of passage-work ending on a trill. The International Louis-Spohr-Competition. Since 2007 he has also taught at Russian sojourn marked a change in his fortunes. more heroic rôle for the soloist and a greater violin concerto. soloist’s next entrance features a passage in double the Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has won many Instead of the wave of success he had ridden since he expressiveness partly due to the possibilities of the new Rode’s thirteen violin concertos, despite holding stops (relatively rare in Rode) and later triplets. From awards including the George Enescu Medal from the Rumanian Cultural emerged from Bordeaux at the age of thirteen, the Tourte bow.