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Mozart - Mendelssohn Violin Concertos Schubert - Rondo Vesko Eschkenazy HYBRID MUL TICHANNEL Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Marco Boni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, KV 219 STROKES OF YOUTHFUL GENIUS able alla turca style, with cellos and basses (1756-1791) Cadenzas: Joseph Joachim n the year of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s instructed to play with the wood of their Ibirth, 1756, his father Leopold published bows. – Perhaps the single most astonish- 1 Allegro aperto 10’ 00” one of the most influential of all violin ing aspect of Schubert’s timeless artistry is 2 Adagio 10’ 25” methods: The School of Violin Playing. It that he achieved all he did in a lifetime span- 3 Rondeau (Tempo di menuetto) 8’ 33” was therefore hardly surprising that young ning a mere 31 years. Largely undervalued Wolfgang was taught the violin from an in his day, it was not until the present cen- Franz Schubert Rondo in A for violin and strings, D. 438 (1797- early age – although no one could have tury that the full scope of Schubert’s genius 1828) predicted his astounding progress. During was finally appreciated. Of the three works 4 Adagio – Allegro giusto 13’ 59” the 1770s, he made appearances as a violin he composed for violin and orchestra, the soloist in several Austro-German musical Rondo in A, composed in June 1816 during Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in D minor centres (including Vienna), and following his first flush of success, is the most popular. (1809-1847) one concert in Munich in 1777, reported Schubert was still only 19 at the time, yet the 5 Allegro molto 9’ 15” proudly to Leopold: “I played as if I were tantalising combination of profound joy and 6 Andante 7’ 59” the greatest fiddler in all of Europe.” – Four sadness that lies at the heart of his creative 7 Allegro 4’ 52” out of the five authenticated violin con- psyche is already simmering gently beneath certos by Mozart were composed during the music’s surface. – Felix Mendelssohn an eight-month period between April and was the most precociously gifted com- Vesko Eschkenazy, violin (Guarneri del Gesù, 1738) December 1775, probably as a means of poser the world has ever known: not even Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra ingratiating himself with his employer, Mozart could lay claim to having produced Conducted by the Archbishop of Salzburg. Irrepressible burning masterpieces while still in his mid- Marco Boni energy and good humour is everywhere teens. By this time Mendelssohn had already apparent in the opening Allegro aperto of reached compositional maturity alongside the so-called “Turkish” Concerto, although his other achievements as a double prod- Recorded August 2001, MCO Studio 1, Hilversum, The Netherlands contemporary audiences found the inten- igy on the violin and piano, an exceptional Recording producer: Job Maarse sity of feeling generated by the heartfelt athlete, a highly gifted poet, multi-linguist Balance engineer: Erdo Groot central Adagio so perplexing that Mozart and watercolorist, and an inspired phi- Recording engineer: Matthijs Ruijter composed a replacement, K. 261, the follow- losopher more than capable of holding his Editor: Dirk Fischer ing year. The rondeau finale, however, was own with learned Berlin University profes- an instant hit, especially the “noisy” third sors. He excelled at virtually anything that episode composed in the extremely fashion- could hold his attention for long enough, although it was music that above all acti- English Chamber Orchestra, C.P.E. Bach the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Since Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra vated his creative imagination. His earliest Chamber Orchestra, Monte-Carlo then he has appeared at festivals both in he Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra surviving attempt at concerto writing is the Symphonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Italy and abroad, working with Salvatore T(Concertgebouw Kamerorkest) was 1822 D minor Violin Concerto, an invigorat- del Estado di Mexico, National Irish Accardo, Yuri Bashmet, Bruno Giuranna, founded in 1987 and consists of members ing work in three movements which clearly Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Rocco Filippini, Bruno Canino, Susanna of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra demonstrates the 13-year-old’s advanced Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra Mildonian, Paul Tortellier and Sándor Végh. of Amsterdam. Before that time it was understanding of late Classical style. Both of Sofia. He has also made appearances Since his appointment as permanent con- called the Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra Mozart and Haydn are present in the stylis- with the MIDEM in Cannes, Radio France ductor of the Concertgebouw Chamber (Amsterdams Kamerorkest). The ensemble tic mix, as is the flowing Italianate lyricism in Montpellier, the Nantes and Reims fes- Orchestra, conducting has increasingly made numerous recordings between 1957 and sparkling orchestration of Rossini. If tivals, the Varna summer festival and the been the focal point of his musical activi- and 1987, conducted by the likes of André the violin writing lacks the intuitive flair of New Year festival in Sofia. He has played ties. He has performed with the Scottish Rieu and Anton van der Horst, and it took the much later E minor Concerto, it is still with such famous conductors as Riccardo Chamber Orchestra, the Hungarian State part in significant national events such as a remarkable achievement for a composer Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonich Orchestra, the Orchestra of the coronation of Queen Beatrix on 30 April barely into his teens. Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur and Seiji Ozawa. the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Italian 1980 and the state visit of US President Julian Haylock In December 1997 he made his début in Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra del George Bush in 1989. The Concergebouw the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, with Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Orchestra da Chamber Orchestra also made a name for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He returned Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra Haydn di itself internationally: recent performances Vesko Eschkenazy there in 2000 to play Khachaturian’s Violin Bolzano, the Orchestra Toscanini di Parma, include concerts in Belgium, Italy, Spain, he Violinist Vesko Eschkenazy was born Concerto on six consecutive evenings. Since the Filarmonici del Teatro Comunale di Germany, Finland, Portugal and Japan. In Tin the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1970. January 2000 Vesko Eschkenazy has been Bologna, the Virtuosi di Santa Cecilia and the addition CD recordings are made regularly He passed his final examination at the local first leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Virtuosi Italiani. He has undertaken success- for several labels. The recording released school of music in 1990. He continued his Orchestra. ful tours with the Concertgebouw Chamber in 1999 of Mahler’s arrangements of string studies with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall Orchestra in Italy, Japan, Belgium, Portugal quartets by Schubert (“Death and the School of Music, London, taking the solo- (with Maria João Pires as soloist) and Spain, Maiden”) and Beethoven (Op. 95) earned ist’s diploma in 1992. He has won prizes in Marco Boni and has made several CD recordings with BBC Music Magazine’s highest accolade several violin-playing competitions, such as arco Boni comes from a musical the orchestra. With the Virtuosi Italiani (five stars) for artistic direction and recording the Polish Wieniawski competition (along Mfamily. He studied piano, horn and he has recorded previously unpublished quality. Among the soloists to have per- with Maxim Vengerov) and the Carl Flesch cello at the Milan conservatory and took works by Nino Rota. CD recordings with the formed with the Concertgebouw Chamber competition in London. He has performed his final examination under the guidance London Symphony Orchestra have been Orchestra are Maria João Pires, Friedrich as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic of Rocco Filippini, gaining a distinction. planned. Gulda, Eliane Rodrigues, Lynn Harrel, Jaap Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, He began his career as a solo cellist in van Zweden, Isabelle van Keulen, Janine Jansen, Rudolf Koelman, Quirine Viersen, für das er eigene Kadenzen geschrieben zwei Oboen, zwei Hörnern, Fagott (ad libi- 64, das der 35jährige Felix Mendelssohn Jacob Slagter and Vesko Eschkenazy. Since hatte. Seitdem gehörte die Geige neben tum) sowie Streichern. Vesko Eschkenazy für seinen Jugendfreund Ferdinand David 1995 the ensemble’s permanent conductor dem transportablen Cembalo zu seinem spielt in dieser Aufnahme die Kadenzen von schrieb und das dieser 1845 mit dcm von has been the Italian Marco Boni ständigen Reisegepäck. Das Instrument, Joseph Joachim. Nils Gade geleiteten Gewandhaus-Orchester welches er damals spielte, eine „Jacobus Im Gegensatz zu seinem Klavierschaffen in Leipzig uraufführte, galt bis weit ins 20. Violinwerke von jugendlichen Genies Stainer” von 1659, liegt heute im Salzburger hat Franz Schubert nur relativ wenig für Jahrhundert als Mendelssohns einziges ach der vom Münchner Publikum Mozart-Museum. Solovioline komponiert, und an Werken Violinkonzert. Erst seit Anfang der fünfziger Nmit großem Beifall aufgenommenen Das hier aufgenommene Violinkonzert für Violine und Orchester sind nur drei Jahre weiß man von der Existenz eines Uraufführung seiner Oper La finta giardi- A-Dur KV 219 ist das letzte der Reihe, die von seiner Hand überliefert, die sämtlich zweiten, wesentlich früher entstandenen niera im Januar 1775 war Mozart nur ungern Mozart – mit Ausnahme des nach neueren aus