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4602294-A69d32-Booklet-777129-2 Elizabeth Wallfisch (© Suzie Maeder) cpo 777 129-2 - Pierre Rode 11774-1830) 24 Caprices en forme d' etudes CD 1 IT] Cantabile - Moderato 3'38 IT] Allegreno 1'56 [2] Comodo 2'56 0 Siciliano - Allegro 3'35 0 Moderato 4'13 0 Adagio - Moderato 4'16 0 Moderato 4'28 [I] Moderato assai 2'05 ~ Adagio - Allegretto 4'47 @J Aileqrettc 2'29 @] Allegro brillonte 4'29 Comodo 1'23 Pierre Rode @] T.T.: 40'15 Pierre Rode 11774-1830) 24 Caprices en forme d' etudes CD 1 IT] Cantabile - Moderato 3'38 IT] Allegreno 1'56 [2] Comodo 2'56 0 Siciliano - Allegro 3'35 0 Moderato 4'13 0 Adagio - Moderato 4'16 0 Moderato 4'28 [I] Moderato assai 2'05 ~ Adagio - Allegretto 4'47 @J Aileqrettc 2'29 @] Allegro brillonte 4'29 Comodo 1'23 Pierre Rode @] T.T.: 40'15 Rode, 24 Caprices en forme d' etudes spcter hielt es sein Lehrer fur angebracht, ihn zu ferne· CD 2 rer Ausbildung nach Paris zu schicken. Dort wurde er Pierre Rode {1774-1830} ist der jijngste der drei Vietti vorgestellt, der offenbar groBes GeFalien an dem [JJ Grozioso 4'57 graBen Vertreter der klassischen Ircnzcsischen Violin- angehenden Virtuosen fond und ihn ols Schuler schule, zu der auBer ihm noch Rodolphe Kreutzer annahm. Am 5. April 1790 erfolgte sein Pariser Debut [TI Adagio con espressione - Appassionato 4'09 {1766-1831} und Pierre Baillot {1771-1842} qezohlt im Concert spirituel mit dem 13. Violinkonzert A·Dur sei- werden. Es ist keine Obertreibung zu behaupten, dass nes lehrers. Anscheinend mit groBem Erfolg, denn sein o Vivace ossai 1'43 die Geschichte der modernen Violintechnik gegen Ende Lehrer protegierte ihn nun in der QHentlichkeit: Einen des 18. Jahrhunderts mil der Ironzosischen Violinschule Monat spoter, am 2. Mai, trat Rode erneut mit dem qlei- 8] Andante 5'33 ihren Ausgang nimmt, oder genauer: mil der Systemati- chen Werk im yon Viotti geleiteten Theatre de Monsieur sierung, didaktischen Aufbereitung und Weiterentwick- auf. 1792 vertraute ihm Viotti, der selbst bereits seit dem [}] Vivacissimo 1'29 lung jener Techniken des Violinspiels, mit denen der Herbst 1783 nicht mehr affentlich spielte, die Uroulfuh- Puqnoni-Schvler Giovanni Bcttlsto Vietti {1755-1824} rungen seiner Konzerte Nr. 17 und 18 an. Bereits seit o Presto 1'30 in der Saison 1782/83 das Pariser Publikum in Erstau- 1790 fijhrte er {als 16jahriger!} die zweiten Geigen im nen versetzte und seine Pariser Kollegen derart beein- Orchester des Theatre Feydeau an. Ob Rode wohrend o Arioso - AliegreHo 6'18 druckte, doss, wie ein zeltqenossischer Beobachter der terreur, der SchreckensherrschaFt Maximilien berichtet, .unseren gr6Bfen Meisfern der Bogen ous der Robespierres und des Wohlfahrtsausschusses, die vom o Grave e sostenuto 5'07 Hand"l fiel. Die Neuerungen in Technik und Spielwei- Juni 1793 bis Juli 1794 wohrte, in Paris weilte oder sich se, vor allem des Spiel in hohen Logen, zogen Veron- auf Konzertreise befand, ist unklar; jedenfalls trugen o Tempo giusto 3'25 derungen in Geigenbau und Bogenherstellung nach ihm seine Erfolge als Virtuose 1795 eine Professur am stch: es waren die letzten ModiFikationen auf dem Weg neu gegrundeten Pariser Konservatorium ein, die er ~ Presto 2'52 zur Gestalt der modernen Violine. Betroffen waren vor jedoch wegen seiner ausgedehnten Konzertreisen in allem der Hals, der schlonker, und des GriffbreH, das der zweiten Halite der 1790er Jahre kaum wahrnahm. [IIJ Moderato 3'21 longer wurde. Gedruckten Ausdruck fanden die Neue- Er tourte durch die Niederlande und Deutschland. Als rungen in Violinspiel und -technik in der 1803 erstmols er sich im Januar 1796 zwei Mal in Hamburg horen ~ Introduzione - Agitato e con Fuoco 3'04 erschienenen, yon Kreutzer, Baillot und Rode qemein- lieB, nannte man ihn, so der Lexikograph Ernst Ludwig sam verfassten Methode de Vi%n, dem offiziellen Gerber, "in Rucksicht seines vortrefflichen Tons, seiner T.T.: 43'30 Unterrichtswerk des Pariser Konservatoriums im Fach auBerordent/ichen Ferfigkeit und seines geschmackvol. Violine. len Vortrogs, einen Violinspieler vom ersfen Range." Ein Elizabeth Wallfisch, Violin Geboren wurde Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode am 16. Abstecher nach London, wo sich sein Lehrer Viotti seit On the present recording Elizabeth Wallfisch performs on a violin Februar 1774 in Bordeaux. Als sechsjchnqer erhielt er Ende 1792 aufhielt, erwies sich jedoch ols weniger by Petrus Paulus de Vitor from 1750 and with a bow ersten Violinunterricht bei Andre-Joseph Fauvel, der sei- erfolgreich. Des Jahr 1798 verbrachte Rode dann wie- by Daniel Parker from 1782. nerseits yon dem aus Mannheim geburtigen und dart der in Paris, er unterrichtete am Konservatorium und Yon Ignaz Fronzl ausgebildeten Geiger Pierre-Noel erfollte die Funktion eines Soloviclinisten an der Oper. Gervais unterrichtet wurde. ZW61fiahrig debUtierte der Doch lange hielt es ihn nicht in der frcnzosischen Houpt- talentierte Knabe in seiner Heimatstadt, und ein Jahr stadt; Ende 1799 findet man ihn in Madrid, wo er 5 Rode, 24 Caprices en forme d' etudes spcter hielt es sein Lehrer fur angebracht, ihn zu ferne· CD 2 rer Ausbildung nach Paris zu schicken. Dort wurde er Pierre Rode {1774-1830} ist der jijngste der drei Vietti vorgestellt, der offenbar groBes GeFalien an dem [JJ Grozioso 4'57 graBen Vertreter der klassischen Ircnzcsischen Violin- angehenden Virtuosen fond und ihn ols Schuler schule, zu der auBer ihm noch Rodolphe Kreutzer annahm. Am 5. April 1790 erfolgte sein Pariser Debut [TI Adagio con espressione - Appassionato 4'09 {1766-1831} und Pierre Baillot {1771-1842} qezohlt im Concert spirituel mit dem 13. Violinkonzert A·Dur sei- werden. Es ist keine Obertreibung zu behaupten, dass nes lehrers. Anscheinend mit groBem Erfolg, denn sein o Vivace ossai 1'43 die Geschichte der modernen Violintechnik gegen Ende Lehrer protegierte ihn nun in der QHentlichkeit: Einen des 18. Jahrhunderts mil der Ironzosischen Violinschule Monat spoter, am 2. Mai, trat Rode erneut mit dem qlei- 8] Andante 5'33 ihren Ausgang nimmt, oder genauer: mil der Systemati- chen Werk im yon Viotti geleiteten Theatre de Monsieur sierung, didaktischen Aufbereitung und Weiterentwick- auf. 1792 vertraute ihm Viotti, der selbst bereits seit dem [}] Vivacissimo 1'29 lung jener Techniken des Violinspiels, mit denen der Herbst 1783 nicht mehr affentlich spielte, die Uroulfuh- Puqnoni-Schvler Giovanni Bcttlsto Vietti {1755-1824} rungen seiner Konzerte Nr. 17 und 18 an. Bereits seit o Presto 1'30 in der Saison 1782/83 das Pariser Publikum in Erstau- 1790 fijhrte er {als 16jahriger!} die zweiten Geigen im nen versetzte und seine Pariser Kollegen derart beein- Orchester des Theatre Feydeau an. Ob Rode wohrend o Arioso - AliegreHo 6'18 druckte, doss, wie ein zeltqenossischer Beobachter der terreur, der SchreckensherrschaFt Maximilien berichtet, .unseren gr6Bfen Meisfern der Bogen ous der Robespierres und des Wohlfahrtsausschusses, die vom o Grave e sostenuto 5'07 Hand"l fiel. Die Neuerungen in Technik und Spielwei- Juni 1793 bis Juli 1794 wohrte, in Paris weilte oder sich se, vor allem des Spiel in hohen Logen, zogen Veron- auf Konzertreise befand, ist unklar; jedenfalls trugen o Tempo giusto 3'25 derungen in Geigenbau und Bogenherstellung nach ihm seine Erfolge als Virtuose 1795 eine Professur am stch: es waren die letzten ModiFikationen auf dem Weg neu gegrundeten Pariser Konservatorium ein, die er ~ Presto 2'52 zur Gestalt der modernen Violine. Betroffen waren vor jedoch wegen seiner ausgedehnten Konzertreisen in allem der Hals, der schlonker, und des GriffbreH, das der zweiten Halite der 1790er Jahre kaum wahrnahm. [IIJ Moderato 3'21 longer wurde. Gedruckten Ausdruck fanden die Neue- Er tourte durch die Niederlande und Deutschland. Als rungen in Violinspiel und -technik in der 1803 erstmols er sich im Januar 1796 zwei Mal in Hamburg horen ~ Introduzione - Agitato e con Fuoco 3'04 erschienenen, yon Kreutzer, Baillot und Rode qemein- lieB, nannte man ihn, so der Lexikograph Ernst Ludwig sam verfassten Methode de Vi%n, dem offiziellen Gerber, "in Rucksicht seines vortrefflichen Tons, seiner T.T.: 43'30 Unterrichtswerk des Pariser Konservatoriums im Fach auBerordent/ichen Ferfigkeit und seines geschmackvol. Violine. len Vortrogs, einen Violinspieler vom ersfen Range." Ein Elizabeth Wallfisch, Violin Geboren wurde Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode am 16. Abstecher nach London, wo sich sein Lehrer Viotti seit On the present recording Elizabeth Wallfisch performs on a violin Februar 1774 in Bordeaux. Als sechsjchnqer erhielt er Ende 1792 aufhielt, erwies sich jedoch ols weniger by Petrus Paulus de Vitor from 1750 and with a bow ersten Violinunterricht bei Andre-Joseph Fauvel, der sei- erfolgreich. Des Jahr 1798 verbrachte Rode dann wie- by Daniel Parker from 1782. nerseits yon dem aus Mannheim geburtigen und dart der in Paris, er unterrichtete am Konservatorium und Yon Ignaz Fronzl ausgebildeten Geiger Pierre-Noel erfollte die Funktion eines Soloviclinisten an der Oper. Gervais unterrichtet wurde. ZW61fiahrig debUtierte der Doch lange hielt es ihn nicht in der frcnzosischen Houpt- talentierte Knabe in seiner Heimatstadt, und ein Jahr stadt; Ende 1799 findet man ihn in Madrid, wo er 5 erfolgreich Konzerle qibt und sich mit luigi Boccherinl Zwang/osigkeit, die der Zwong/osigkeit seines immer der gleichen Zeilschrift uber Rodes Gaslspiel in Dres- Rode reiste weiter tiber Konigsberg und Riga nach anfreundet. Zuruckqekehrt nach Paris erhielt er die Stel- senkrechten Anstondes g/eicht. Kurz, unter allen Virtuo- den: St. Petersburg. Er splelte vor der Zorenfamilie und lung eines Soloviolinisten in der Privatkapelle Napoleon sen auf der Vio/ine, we/che sich dies Johr in den Konzer- "Er hat die Unverstondigen zu gedanken/osem uberzeugte dermaBen, doss er einen Brillantring und Bonaporles, der sich 1797 mil einem Staolsslreich zum ten van Paris hoben boren lassen, ist wahl Kreutzer der Anstaunen, die Verstondigen zur Achtung und zum lou- eine gUI dolierle Anslellung als Soloviolinisl erhielt. Vier Ersten Konsul der Republik Fronkreich hochgeputscht Einzige, der mit Rode verg/ichen werden dorf; dieser ten Lobe seines grossen Talents begeistert." Jahre blieb er in Russland und erwarb sich Ruhm und hatte.
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