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Download Booklet SUPER AUDIO CD RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PETER OUNDJIAN © Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library Photo & Arts Music © Lebrecht Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) Sheherazade, Op. 35 (1888) Symphonic Suite Jonathan Crow violin 1 I The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship – 10:01 2 II The Kalender Prince – 12:13 3 III The Young Prince and the Young Princess – 10:29 4 IV Festival at Baghdad – The Sea – The Shipwreck 12:34 TT 45:20 Toronto Symphony Orchestra Peter Oundjian 3 Toronto Symphony Orchestra Peter Oundjian Music Director Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate violin Jennifer Thompson Jonathan Crow, Concertmaster Angelique Toews Tom Beck Concertmaster Chair James Wallenberg Mark Skazinetsky, Associate Concertmaster Virginia Chen Wells Marc-André Savoie, Assistant Concertmaster Arkady Yanivker Etsuko Kimura, Assistant Concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky* Paul Meyer, Principal Second Violin Lance Ouellette* Wendy Rose, Assistant Principal Second Violin Ashley Vandiver* Ivan Alexander Atis Bankas viola Sydney Chun Teng Li, Principal Carol Lynn Fujino Eric Nowlin, Assistant Principal Amanda Goodburn Daniel Blackman Terry Holowach Gary Labovitz Bridget Hunt Diane Leung Amalia Joanou-Canzoneri Charmain Louis Mi Hyon Kim Mary Carol Nugent Shane Kim Christopher Redfield Eri Kosaka Theresa Rudolph Leslie Dawn Knowles Harry Skura Sergei Nikonov Kent Teeple Hyung-Sun Paik Young-Dae Park Semyon Pertsovsky Peter Seminovs 4 cello flute Joseph Johnson, Principal Nora Shulman, Principal Principal Cello Chair funded by Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee Dr Armand Hammer Principal Flute Chair David Hetherington, Assistant Principal Julie Ranti, Associate Principal Winona Zelenka, Assistant Principal Leonie Wall Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron Camille Watts Igor Gefter Marie Gelinas piccolo Roberta Janzen Camille Watts Kirk Worthington Alastair Eng* oboe Sarah Jeffrey, Principal double-bass Keith Atkinson, Associate Principal Jeffrey Beecher, Principal Cary Ebli Principal Double-bass Chair annually Sarah Lewis funded by the Saunderson Family Kristen Bruya, Assistant Principal English horn Theodore Chan Cary Ebli Timothy Dawson clarinet Chas Elliott Joaquin Valdepeñas, Principal David Longenecker Sheryl L. and David W. Kerr Paul Rogers Principal Clarinet Chair Nick Davis* Yao Guang Zhai, Associate Principal Joseph Orlowski 5 bassoon bass trombone Michael Sweeney, Principal Jeffrey Hall Samuel Banks Fraser Jackson tuba Mark Tetreault, Principal contrabassoon Fraser Jackson timpani David Kent, Principal horn Neil Deland, Principal percussion Dr Michael Braudo Principal Horn Chair John Rudolph, Principal Christopher Gongos, Associate Principal Patricia Krueger Richard Cohen Donald Kuehn Audrey Good Russell Hartenberger* Gabriel Radford Lee Vinson* Erin Cooper Gay* harp trumpet Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton, Principal Andrew McCandless, Principal Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee keyboard Principal Trumpet Chair Patricia Krueger, Principal Barton Woomert, Associate Principal librarians James Gardiner Gary Corrin, Principal James Spragg Kim Gilmore trombone *guest musician Gordon Wolfe, Principal William Cross Charles Benaroya* 6 Sian Richards Sian Peter Oundjian in rehearsal with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Op. 35 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov in the tales which she told during the (1844 – 1908) mastered the art of colourful 1001 nights. Driven by curiosity, the orchestration, a skill through which he Sultan postponed her execution from expressed his taste for exotic subjects. It was day to day, and at last abandoned his virtually inevitable that he would turn his bloodthirsty design. attention to one of the world’s best-known The suite opens with a stern brass theme collections of folklore, the ‘Arabian’ – or that could represent the bloodthirsty sultan. ‘1001’ – ‘Nights’. In his autobiography, he gave Answering it is the most important recurring his intentions in composing Sheherazade: motive, a bewitching melody sung by the I had in view the creation of an solo violin: the voice of Sheherazade. Early orchestral suite in four movements, on, Rimsky-Korsakov begins to dot the score closely knit by the unity of its themes with the passages for solo instruments that and motives, yet presenting, as it were, make the entire suite a marvellous orchestral a kaleidoscope of fairy tale images... showpiece. The mercurial second movement I meant the hinted titles of the has the character of a scherzo, and the third movements to direct but slightly the offers a luscious romantic reverie. The finale hearer’s fancy on the path which my own is a boisterous carnival, crowned by a colossal fancy had travelled. climax. The ‘Sheherazade’ theme returns one He attached the following introduction to the last time. Keening softly in the heights, it rocks score: the theme of the Sultan, its bullying tone now The Sultan Shakriar, convinced of soothed, in a tender lullaby. the falsehood and inconstancy of all © 2014 Don Anderson women, had sworn an oath to put to death each of his wives after the first night. However, the Sultana Sheherazade Internationally recognised as one of the saved her life by arousing his interest major cultural institutions of Canada, the 8 Toronto Symphony Orchestra was founded Renowned composers such as Igor Stravinsky, in 1922. Its esteemed roster of musicians Aaron Copland, Henri Dutilleux, Sir Michael numbers acclaimed solo and chamber Tippett, Phillip Glass, Tan Dun, R. Murray ensemble artists as well as teachers in music Schafer, Magnus Lindberg, and Oliver faculties across North America. More than Knussen have attended performances of their 225,000 patrons and 50,000 students attend own music. concerts of the Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall each year, and millions of Canadians The 2013 – 14 season marked the tenth listen to these as broadcast on CBC Radio. anniversary of the critically acclaimed, Under the leadership of its Music Director, internationally sought-after conductor Peter Peter Oundjian, it has expanded its recording Oundjian as Music Director of the Toronto and touring projects to include a self-produced Symphony Orchestra. Playing an integral record label, and has toured throughout part in the rebirth of the Orchestra, he has Canada, the US, and Europe. It continues established an annual celebration of Mozart, to develop its international presence via a founded the hugely successful New Creations partnership with the prestigious British record Festival, launched TSO Live, a self-produced label Chandos, as well as by showcasing and record label with nine releases to date, led the supporting new works by Canadian and Orchestra in two unforgettable appearances foreign composers through its annual New at Carnegie Hall in New York, initiated the Creations Festival. Orchestra’s northern residencies, forged The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is a relationship with Toronto’s Luminato committed to innovative programming and Festival to present free large-scale outdoor each season presents a list of distinguished concerts, and revitalised the Orchestra with guest musicians. Throughout its history, it has the appointment of more than one-third of its welcomed some of the greatest international current musicians, including nine principals artists, including James Ehnes, Maureen and the concertmaster, Jonathan Crow, in Forrester, Lang Lang (in his first week-long 2011. The award-winning documentary residency programme in North America), Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Christopher Orchestra is available on DVD and chronicles Plummer, Emanuel Ax, and Maxim Vengerov. his first week as Music Director. 9 Toronto-born, Peter Oundjian first studied Peter Oundjian in rehearsal with the violin in England with Manoug Parikian. Toronto Symphony Orchestra He attended the Royal College of Music in Sian Richards Sian London, where he was awarded the Gold Medal for Most Distinguished Student, and received the Ian Stoutzker Prize for excellence in violin playing by the Queen Mother. He later completed his training at the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman and Dorothy DeLay. He is the longest-serving first violinist of the renowned Tokyo String Quartet, a position he held for fourteen years. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, played a major role at the Caramoor International Music Festival in New York between 1997 and 2007, and has just completed his first season as Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. A visiting professor at the Yale School of Music since 1981, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the San Francisco Conservatory in 2009, and in 2013 was awarded the Samuel Simons Sanford Medal for distinguished service to music, the highest honour the Yale School of Music can bestow. Peter Oundjian and his wife, Nadine, have two children, Lara and Peter. 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