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Download Booklet 572153 bk Markevitch 5/10/09 10:30 Page 16 Igor Also available in this series: MARKEVITCH Complete Orchestral Works • 3 Cantique d’Amour • L’Envol d’Icare • Concerto Grosso Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra • Lyndon-Gee 8.570773 8.572172 8.572153 16 572153 bk Markevitch 5/10/09 10:30 Page 2 Igor Markevitch (1912-1983) Christopher Lyndon-Gee Complete Orchestral Works • 3 Christopher Lyndon-Gee was recently honoured as one of only three hundred conductors included in Naxos’s 600- This third volume of the complete orchestral works of himself “dead between two lives”. But this alone cannot page book and CD compilation A to Z of Conductors, covering the entire history of the art-form from Hans von Igor Markevitch includes the first recordings of fully explain the reasons for his abandoning Bülow and Arthur Nikisch to the present day. Christopher Lyndon-Gee was nominated for Grammys in 1998 for Cantique d’Amour and Concerto Grosso; L’Envol composition; and his autobiography Être et avoir été, ‘Best Orchestral Performance’ for the first volume of his groundbreaking series of the complete works of Igor d’Icare was previously recorded by the composer in published in 1980, obfuscates and misleads even as it Markevitch (originally released on Marco Polo); in 2003 for the world première recording of George Rochberg’s 1938 on poorly-preserved 78 rpm shellac discs. Other makes a show of revealing the writer’s inner life. Symphony No. 5 on Naxos American Classics; and again in 2007 for Hans Werner Henze’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1 than that single recording and a handful of radio Markevitch is dissimilar to the “conductor- and 3, with Peter Sheppard Skærved and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra (now the Deutsche Radio- broadcasts, the present series is the first ever made of composer” model exemplified by Furtwängler, Philharmonie). Other recordings have been listed among The Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’ in London, Fanfare the arrestingly original orchestral music of a composer Klemperer, Weingartner and many others between the magazine ‘Outstanding CDs of the Year’, Penguin Guide to Compact Discs’ multiple Rosettes and Key Recordings hailed in the 1930s as one of the most challenging wars. On the contrary, he emerged first as a listings, and he won the Pizzicato prize in Luxembourg. He was named ‘Artist of the Year’ by the Australian voices of his time, yet subsequently ignored — not least phenomenally gifted adolescent composer exalted by National Critics Circle in 1994, and won the Sydney Opera Critics ‘Best Conductor’ award the same year. by himself. Thus these discs may offer the beginnings of his contemporaries on the basis of an astoundingly Acclaimed recent releases include George Rochberg’s Symphony No. 1 in its première recording (Naxos 8.559214); an opportunity to decipher the mystery that is Igor assured series of early scores, turning to conducting volume 2 of the complete works of Edgard Varèse (8.557882), including the massive original version of Amériques, Markevitch. almost reluctantly when required by his own work and for an orchestra of 155 players; and the completion of the Markevitch complete works project, the oratorio The singular precedent of Rossini, who retired from by the hardships of post-war life. Yet, after changing Le Paradis perdu, released in 2008. Frequently invited to conduct at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, he conducted the composition of opera at the age of 38 to become a course to this new career exclusively as conductor at four world premières on a single concert at the Jubilee, Fiftieth anniversary Festival in 2007 — new symphonies by restaurateur, but continued to write salon music and thirty, he all but denied the existence of his own music the Slovakian composer Roman Berger; Lithuania’s leading female composer Onute Narbutaite; and the Polish sacred works, seems hardly comparable. Markevitch’s until nearly seventy years old. When questioned in 1958 composers Jerzy Kornowicz and Aleksand’r Lason. In 2006 he led the closing concert at the November 2006 ‘Pawel renunciation at 29 of his identity as a composer is a about his early life as composer, he diffidently replied: Szymanski Festival’, also in Warsaw, featuring six of the major works of Poland’s leading composer of today. unique case in the history of music. To quote David “I would say to you, very frankly, that I am objective In 2008, a four-DVD set including this complete concert was released worldwide by Polskie Wydawnictwo Drew, “It is a silence like no other in the music of this enough to claim that there is music which needs to be Audiowizualne. As a composer, Lyndon-Gee was honoured by the Onassis Foundation Prize in 2001, has won the century or before”. heard before mine, and for which the need is more ‘Sounds Australian’ award three times, the Adolf Spivakovsky Prize, and the MacDowell Fellowship twice. At first glance the eclipse during his lifetime of urgent. Apart from that, if my works are good enough, In 2006, his setting from Dante’s Paradiso, ‘Frammento del Dante’, was premièred in Florence by the Echo- Markevitch’s reputation as a composer appears due, they can wait; and if they cannot wait, it is pointless to Klassiek prize-winning German ensemble SingerPur; Musik für SaitenInstrumente has had recent performances in more than any other single factor, to the dimensions of play them.” several countries (including Vladivostock, in far eastern Russia); and ‘Over Litton’, after a poem of Edward Storey, his success as a conductor. What has yet to be fully The facts of his “first life” are remarkable enough. was premièred in Wales as a 25th anniversary Presteigne Festival Commission before being taken up widely in New explained, however, is why his life divides so Born in Ki’ev on 27th July, 1912, he moved with his York, Australia and elsewhere. In progress are forthcoming commissions of a set of songs for Lute and Tenor voice, dramatically and uncompromisingly into two halves – family to Paris in 1914, before settling in Switzerland. Lieder des Morgensterns; a new work for SingerPur on a text from Milton; a String Quartet; a second string clearly a conscious decision on his part, and one whose As early as the age of thirteen, he played his piano suite orchestra work for the German conductor Eckart Schloifer, ‘… und unter den Blättern saß Er, weinend’; a work for true reasons this intensely private man seems to have Noces to Alfred Cortot, who recommended the work to ‘Harpsichord Unlimited’ in New York, Etudes canoniques; and a Symphony respectfully dedicated to the aboriginal sought to keep hidden. Markevitch’s last original his publishers and invited the boy to study with him. In heritage of Australia, Symphony of Dreamtime. Lyndon-Gee studied conducting under Rudolf Schwarz in London, composition was written in 1941 at the age of 29, and he January 1929, before his seventeenth birthday, he and Franco Ferrara in Rome, where Leonard Bernstein heard him conduct a student concert, subsequently inviting never again returned to the creative endeavours that had enraptured Dyagilev with his Sinfonietta in F, leading in him to study at Tanglewood. Here he later worked also under Maurice Abravanel, Erich Leinsdorf and others. He brought him such renown and adulation when barely in a matter of months to the young composer completing worked as Bruno Maderna’s assistant at La Scala, Milan, later becoming second conductor at the Teatro Regio in his twenties. The trauma of the Second World War and playing his new Piano Concerto at Covent Garden Turin, working also with the RAI orchestra in that city. He was co-founder with composer Lorenzo Ferrero of the marks a sharp dividing line during which the composer (in concert form between L’Après-midi d’un faune and Ensemble Fase Seconda, who premièred dozens of commissioned new works throughout Italy, Germany, France appears to have undergone a mental, as well as physical Renard, at what the influential social columns of and at many international festivals. As composer, he studied with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome, Luciano Berio, crisis, for in 1942 Markevitch suffered a serious illness London’s Sketch referred to as a “rehearsal party” for a Sylvano Bussotti and Jean Martinon. Britain’s great musicologist Arthur Hutchings remains a powerful guiding while living in Tuscany, and in a letter of the same year select group of intelligentsia including, apparently, influence, several decades on. written during his recuperation declared that he sensed Virginia Woolf). Soon after, he started work on a major 8.572153 215 8.572153 572153 bk Markevitch 5/10/09 10:30 Page 14 Het Gelders Orkest (Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra) ballet score, L’Habit du Roi (The Emperor’s New rhythms of adolescence that he felt a stranger had been Clothes), to be choreographed by Lifar with décor by born within, an alien persona that guided him beyond Based in Arnhem, the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra gives some hundred symphony concerts each season in the Picasso. In short, he was at seventeen launched by any of his desires. province of Gelderland, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht, and abroad, including tours to Spain, Austria, Dyagilev on a path that brought worldwide fame as a It is undoubtedly more than coincidental that at Germany and Hungary. In 2007 the orchestra toured Japan for the first time and returns there in 2009. From the composer by the time he was twenty. nineteen Markevitch should have turned to the Icarus 2003-2004 season Martin Sieghart took over as Chief Conductor and artistic adviser of the orchestra. Ken-ichro “I was his last discovery” were Markevitch’s words myth for his first truly individual work, L’Envol d’Icare, Kobayashi was appointed Permanent Conductor from the 2006-2007 season, and Nikolai Alexeev Permanent Guest in a revealing 1972 interview with the New York dance a score which he continued to re-work in various forms Conductor in 2002.
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