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570748bk Beriot:570034bk Hasse 3/3/09 9:20 PM Page 4 Christine Sohn Christine Sohn has appeared in concert throughout much of the United States, including highly successful performances at venues from the Aspen Music Festival to Lincoln Center. She spent seven years based in London, and has also performed widely throughout Europe and Asia. As concertmaster, she led the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Photo: Nisha Kutty Colin Davis in its award-winning live concert recording of Berlioz’s Les Troyens and under Royal Opera House Music Director Antonio Charles-Auguste de Pappano led the London Symphony Orchestra on tour to Spain. She spent several seasons as guest leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bilbao Symphony ´ Orchestra in Spain, and at the invitation of Edo de Waart served as guest BERIOT concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She also served as guest leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Sakari Oramo, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm. A Korean-American native of New York, Christine Sohn began playing the violin at the age of four and entered the Juilliard School four years later as a pupil Duos of Dorothy Delay, making her recital and concerto débuts that same year at Lincoln Center. She continued her university studies at Princeton University, studying political economy, followed by studies at the postgraduate level at the Royal College of Music in London. In New York again in 2005, she toured the United States and Asia as the first violinist of concertants the Vega Quartet, recipients of four prizes, including the International Critics’ Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, and Coca Cola Visiting Artists in Residence at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. John Marcus Six Duos The violinist John Marcus is a native New Yorker and graduate of the Juilliard School, where he received his Pre-College Division Diploma, his Bachelor of caractéristiques Music and his Master of Music degrees. He also holds a Postgraduate Certificate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His major teachers include Dorothy DeLay and David Takeno. He has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Europe, giving his first Photo: Richie Hawley public performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg at the age of nine, and has since appeared with orchestras both in the United States and abroad. At the age of fifteen he performed at Lincoln Center as winner of the Juilliard Violin Competition. In 1993, at the opening Gala of the Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, he appeared as soloist with Pinchas Zukerman and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. The Christine Sohn Stradivarius Society of Chicago lent John the “Burmeister” Guarnerius del Gesù C (l742) for this occasion. John Marcus has frequently toured Germany as a recitalist and has performed regularly in New York City. He has performed at many festivals, and John Marcus, M including Ravinia, Aspen, Tanglewood, Verbier, and Spoleto in Italy. Musicians with whom he has worked include Robert McDuffie, Kyoko Takezawa, Ursula Y Oppens, Peter Oundjian, Peter Winograd and Cho-Liang Lin. Violins K 8.570748 4 570748bk Beriot:570034bk Hasse 3/3/09 9:20 PM Page 2 Charles-Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870) second violin. After a short development the opening theme. The gentle slow movement is in F major, presenting Duos Concertants, Op. 57 • Six Duos caractéristiques, Op. 113 theme returns and both violins join in a G major version of a theme, that as elsewhere in these duos, has operatic the secondary theme, before the movement comes to a connotations. The work ends with an Allegretto in 6/8, Charles-Auguste de Bériot was born in Louvain in 1802 was pregnant. A few years later Heine was to observe that close. The first violin presents the principal theme of the starting in D minor and leading to a theme in A major, and was to become one of the most distinguished violinists the soul of Malibran continued to sing through the melting E flat major Adagio moderato, accompanied by marked con spirito, followed by a return of the first theme of the Belgian school, followed by players such as and sweet tones of her husband’s violin. demisemiquaver figuration from the second violin, which and key, followed by the secondary theme in D major and Vieuxtemps, Ysaÿe, Hubert Léonard, Massart, Marsick, In 1838 de Bériot undertook concert tours in Austria is allowed to introduce a secondary theme. The Duo ends a Vivace assai coda. Prume and César Thomson. De Bériot played a Viotti and Italy with his wife’s sister, and appeared in the major with a Rondo, its G minor principal theme introduced by the Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov was a descendant concerto in public at the age of nine and after the death of cities of Germany with the pianist Thalberg. Two years first violin and followed by a B flat major episode which of one of Russia’s oldest established aristocratic families. his parents in 1812 became the ward of his teacher Jean- later he married Marie Huber, the daughter of an Austrian forms the substance of a second episode in G major, the key In his wide artistic interests he followed other members of François Tiby. He took some lessons from André magistrate, and from then on limited his concert tours, in which the movement ends. the family and was a violin pupil of Vieuxtemps, taking Robberechts, a pupil of Viotti, and in 1821 travelled to buying a house at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, near Brussels. The second Duo concertant, in E minor, has the first lessons from him during the latter’s period in St Petersburg Paris to play for Viotti, who advised him to try to perfect In 1842 he was offered the succession to Baillot at the Paris violin state the principal theme, followed by the second and continuing the relationship. Vieuxtemps, a pupil of de his style, to listen to other players but to imitate none, Conservatoire, but rejected the invitation, in 1843 accepting violin an octave lower. Both violins join in the G major Bériot, dedicated his concert duet for violin and cello on counsel that he seems largely to have accepted, and akin to the position of principal professor of the violin at the secondary theme at an octave interval, to be continued by themes from Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, written with the the advice he later gave to his own pupil Vieuxtemps. In Conservatoire in Brussels. He was now able to enjoy the the first violin. The two themse are to return, the second cellist Servais, to Yusupov, whose writings included a 1819 Viotti had taken up the position of director of the performance of chamber music with members of his Cercle in E major. The slow movement shifts to C major, the history of the violin and violin-makers, Luthmonographie, Paris Opéra, after the failure of his wine business in des arts, meeting at his house. Failing health and eye-sight second violin opening with accompaniment figuration to written in French and published in Leipzig in 1856. London. He was to resign in November 1821, but at the was to lead to de Bériot’s resignation from the the first violin’s theme. Contrasting material brings a Yusupov also began a history of music in Russia and as a time of de Bériot’s appearance in Paris he was busily Conservatoire in 1852. He continued to give concerts, and passage of dialogue in A minor before the return of the composer produced a Concerto Symphonique for violin involved with his official duties. The boy was able, in 1859 accepted an invitation from Prince Nikolay principal theme. The last movement is again a Rondo, its and orchestra, a work that he played with his own orchestra, however, to take some lessons from Viotti’s pupil Baillot, Yusupov to visit Russia. Paralysis of the left arm in 1866 bowed staccato principal theme entrusted to the first violin, among other compositions. In October 1859 de Bériot who had for some years been teaching at the Conservatoire. put an end to his career and he died in Brussels in 1870. with an emphatic double-stopped accompanying figure became music director of Yusupov’s private orchestra, By 1824 de Bériot had embarked on a career as a De Bériot’s compositions include thirteen published sets from the second violin. This is interrupted by a chordal holding the position until May the following year. virtuoso that brought him, in 1826, the title of violon de la of variations for violin and piano, the first dating from about passage in which both instruments join, leading to a G De Bériot took themes from Yusupov’s once popular chambre du roi to King Charles X. He also held the 1820 and the last appearing in 1866, ten violin concertos, major episode introduced by the octaves of the first violin. Ballet Espagnol for his six Duos caractéristiques, Op. 113, position of violinist to King Wilhelm I of The Netherlands, the last of which was published posthumously in 1871, The first part of the movement is repeated, followed by the for two violins. The G major Adagio that opens the set with a useful stipend, but both came to an end with the with some fifty duets and studies which continue to serve secondary theme in C major. The main theme returns, starts with plucked notes, before the first violin introduces disturbances of 1830 in France and the Low Countries and their original pedagogical purpose.

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