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Marc-André Hamelin, Piano ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST PROFILE Tonight’s concert marks Marc-André Hamelin’s third appearance for San Francis- co Performances. He previously appeared in recital on December 2, 2003 and April 29, presents 2005. Marc-André Hamelin, piano Saturday, April 29, 2006, 8:00 p.m. Herbst Theatre Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A Major, K.664 Allegro moderato Andante Allegro Pantcho Vladigerov Sonatina Concertante, Opus 28 Con moto Montréal native Marc-André Hamelin is Andantino internationally renowned for his musical vir- Animato giocoso tuosity and refined pianism. Recitals in the 2005/06 season will include appearances in Tokyo, Seville, Bilbao, Paris, INTERMISSION Warsaw, Montreal, Houston, Richmond, Cleveland, Charlottesville, and the third in his three-year series of annual concerts with San Francisco Performances. His orchestral en- Richard Wagner–Franz Liszt Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus gagements will include the Saint-Saens Piano Tristan und Isolde Concerto No. 2 for the opening week of the New Jersey Symphony led by Neeme Järvi, Brahms No. 2 with the Dallas Symphony and Giuseppe Verdi–Franz Liszt Ernani: Paraphrase de concert Andrew Litton (to be recorded for Hyperion), Schedrin No. 2 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic led by Ingo Metzmacher, the Vincenzo Bellini–Franz Liszt Reminiscences de Norma Busoni Piano Concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony and James Paul, Shostakovich No. 2 and the Strauss Burlesque at the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa with Thomas Dausgaard, and Beethoven No. 4 with the Ed- monton Symphony led by William Eddins. Mr. Hamelin began the summer of 2005 with his New York Philharmonic debut with the Liszt Totentanz, and continued with recit- als at Ravinia, Ruhr, Domaine Forget, Pent- Marc-André Hamelin is represented by Colbert Artists Management, New York. worth, Bayreuth, a return to the International Keyboard Festival at Mannes; and the Saint- Hamburg Steinway Model D provided by Pro Piano San Francisco. Saens Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Grand Teton Music Festival and Yan Pascal Tortelier. 30 Under exclusive contract with Hyperion re- traordinary gentleness. Lyric ideas are stated and his long and productive life. Among his students cords, Mr. Hamelin’s latest release is a disc of developed tenderly, and while the music can at was the pianist Alexis Weissenberg. Schumann’s Carnaval, Fantasiestücke and Papil- moments proceed with a great deal of vigor, the Vladigerov composed in a number of genres: lons. His highly acclaimed recording of Rubin- Sonata in A Major is for the most part without symphonies, concertos, an opera, a ballet, much stein’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Scharwenka’s stress or unsettling tension. Much of the writ- instrumental and chamber music, as well as Piano Concerto No. 1 was issued earlier in the ing is set very high in the piano’s register, giv- songs and folk-song arrangements. At first ac- season. During the 2004/05 season his recordings ing the sonata a ringing, bell-like sonority–the quaintance, Valdigerov’s music seems reminis- of the complete Albeniz Iberia and Ives’s “Con- main theme of its final movement, in fact, has cent of Bartók: both composers make use of the cord” Sonata brought him a nomination for been compared to a music-box tune. folk-song idiom of Eastern Europe, particularly Gramophone Magazine’s 2005 Artist of the Year. Schubert often favored a four-movement its shifting meters. But Vladigerov puts a much Among his dozens of recordings include con- structure for his mature piano sonatas, but the greater emphasis on melody, and at moments his certos by Alkan, Bernstein, Bolcom, Korngold, Sonata in A Major is in only three. The Al- music sings with an almost sensuous opulence. Joseph Marx, Medtner, Rodion Schedrin, Scri- legro moderato opens with a long, constantly- The Sonatina Concertante is Vladigerov’s abin, Shostakovich, and solo discs of Alkan, Ca- singing idea. This theme has been criticized only extended work for piano (he wrote a num- toire, Nikolai Kapustin, Liszt, Reger, Roslavets, as being too much song and not enough true ber of short works for piano, but no sonatas). Rzewski, Schumann, Villa Lobos, and “The sonata theme, one capable of development, Composed in 1934, two years after his return to Composer-Pianists: From Alkan to Hamelin.” though that may be the source of its charm Bulgaria, the Sonatina is in three movements in His double album of the complete Chopin-Go- for many listeners. The development brings a fast-slow-fast sequence. This is music of en- dowsky Etudes won the 2000 Gramophone In- pounding triplet octaves, but Schubert keeps ergy and color, and its Andantino is particularly strumental Award. With a double nomination the mood gentle, and the movement con- attractive. This central movement begins with a for the epic Busoni Concerto with the CBSO cludes on quiet fragments of its opening idea. brush of color, then immediately unfolds its long under Mark Elder and the Chopin-Godowsky, TheAndante is built on a simple chordal melo- melodies, which have an exotic Eastern flavor. Mr. Hamelin was the only classical artist to play dy, but here the phrases fall into the unusual length Meter shifts constantly through this movement, live at the 2001 Grammy Awards. He received of seven measures. The development section, once which offers a pungent harmonic language and another Grammy nomination in 2002 for his again employing triplet rhythms, moves from D is sometimes set high in the piano’s range before recording featuring the works of Alkan. major to D minor before the quiet close. the music trails off to its quiet close. In 2005 Mr. Hamelin was honored to be The amiable concluding Allegro is based on made an Officer of the Order of Canada and runs and dotted rhythms, though Schubert leads a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec. Isoldens Liebestod: us into another world with the dancing second Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde subject. Much of the writing is again set high (transcribed by Franz Liszt) NOTES ON in the instrument’s range, and this movement dances home to the sound of ringing bells. Richard Wagner THE PROGRAM Born May 22, 1813, Leipzig Died February 13, 1883, Venice Piano Sonata in A Major, D.664 Sonatina Concertante, Opus 28 Ernani: Paraphrase de concert Franz Schubert Pantcho Vladigerov (transcribed by Liszt) Born January 31, 1797, Vienna Born March 13, 1899, Zurich Giuseppe Verdi Died November 19, 1828, Vienna Died September 8, 1978, Sofia Born October 9/10, 1813, Roncole A certain amount of confusion has sur- Though he became Bulgaria’s leading com- Died January 27, 1901, Milan rounded the date of composition of this brief poser of the twentieth century, Pantcho Vladig- Reminiscences de Norma piano sonata. Some scholars have placed it in erov was born in Switzerland, where his mother (transcribed by Liszt) had gone for good medical care when she learned the years 1817 or 1825, but recent evidence sug- Vincenzo Bellini that she was going to have twins: Pantcho’s twin gests that Schubert actually wrote it during the Born November 3, 1801, Catania brother Luben was actually born the day before summer of 1819, which he spent on vacation in Died September 23, 1835, Puteaux the Speyr region of Austria. This was a relaxed he was. The boys began their musical studies in time for the young composer: he found the sur- Bulgaria but were sent to Berlin in 1911 to com- Liszt made a number of straightforward rounding countryside “inconceivably lovely,” plete their training. There Pantcho studied piano piano versions of works by other composers, and that summer he also wrote one of the most and composition, winning several awards in the such as Beethoven symphonies, Weber over- relaxed and best-loved of his works, the “Trout” process. He found life in the heady artistic climate tures, and other orchestral works, chamber Quartet. The summer appears to have had of Berlin quite congenial and remained there for music, and songs. His motives here were en- other charms as well–Schubert dedicated this two decades, serving for some time as composer- tirely generous: he liked this music and knew sonata to the daughter of one of his hosts, the in-residence and music director of the Max Rein- that performances of the original versions eighteen-year-old Josefine von Koller, of whom hardt Theater. But the imminent rise of the Nazis would be infrequent, so he set out to bring he said: “She is very pretty, plays the piano well, made Berlin less attractive, and in 1932 Vladig- the music to a wider audience by playing it in and is going to sing some of my songs.” erov returned to Bulgaria. He served as Professor piano versions. Such arrangements are gener- of Piano, Chamber Music, and Composition at ally known as transcriptions: straightforward What most distinguishes this music is its ex- the Academy of Music in Sofia across the rest of and (fairly) literal piano versions of works 31 originally written for instruments or voice. ma abandoned her husband Hans von Bülow, quite dramatic music. Liszt drafted a first ver- ran off with Wagner, and eventually married sion of his paraphrase on themes from Ernani in But Liszt also turned to the music of other him. Liszt was furious with both Cosima and 1847, only three years after the premiere, but did composers as the starting point for his own cre- Wagner and remained estranged from them not publish his (much-revised) final version until ativity and as an opportunity to demonstrate until a reconciliation was worked out in 1872. 1859. In contrast to his fairly literal transcription his keyboard virtuosity. Such works go under of Wagner’s Liebestod, the Ernani paraphrase is a variety of names, including paraphrase, remi- If Liszt could disapprove of Wagner’s actions, quite free, and Verdi’s music becomes a vehicle for niscence, or fantasy, and for them Liszt would he nevertheless admired his music, and he made Liszt’s own spectacular keyboard abilities.
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