570800bk Bazzini US:557541bk Kelemen 3+3 15/7/08 8:43 PM Page 1 Caspar Frantz Born in 1980, Caspar Frantz received his first piano lessons at the age of seven. Further studies took him to Rostock as a pupil of Matthias Kirschnereit. He is currently studying with Eberhard Feltz at the Hanns Eisler Academy for Music in Berlin. Collaboration with pianists such as Renate Kretschmar-Fischer and Elisabeth Leonskaja as well as master-classes with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Maria João Antonio Pires and György Kurtag have had a strong impact on his artistic development. Since his début at the Rheingau Music Festival, Caspar Frantz has played in Germany, throughout BAZZINI Europe and at numerous festivals, including the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festspiele in Schwetzingen, Ravinia Festival, Ludwigsburger Festspiele, the Schwarzwald Festival, the Etudes Beethovenfest in Bonn and at the IMS, Prussia Cove. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Kiel Philharmonic, Rostock, Stralsund, the Iasi State Philharmonic Calabrese Orchestra of Moldova, Polish Chamber Orchestras and the New Phiharmonic Westphalia. He was awarded first prize at the German Jugend musiziert, and he is also winner of the Morceaux Mendelssohn award 2006, the Premio Vittorio Gui 2006 and the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2006 (together with the Cellist Julian Arp with whom he has played as a duo since La Ronde des 1996). He held scholarships from the Marie-Luise-Imbusch- Stiftung and the Deutscher Stiftung Musikleben, with the Carl-Heinz Illies Award, and is currently a fellow of the Villa lutins Musica and the Horst-Rahe Foundation, Rostock. Get this free download from Classicsonline! Rossini: Andante and Variations for Violin and Harp Chloë Hanslip, Copy this Promotion Code Nax0ylZyIUxl and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/ross9_main. Downloading Instructions Violin C 1 Log on to Classicsonline. 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He did not neglect larger works, and wrote several as two salon pieces dedicated to the Countess Antoinette virtuosity, twenty-year-old British violinist Chloë Hanslip is Antonio Bazzini was born in Brescia on 11th March, Mendelssohn’s Gewandhaus Orchestra, reputedly giving violin concertos, the most famous being the last, the Freschi. Le Depart is unusual in its use of half-step already established as an international artist of distinction. 1818. He came from an ancient Brescian family, one of the first private performances of Mendelssohn’s E ‘Military’ Concerto, Op. 42, published in 1863. Bazzini scordatura tuning (a device beloved of Paganini) on all Her recent recording for Naxos (8.559302), of the John mentioned in chronicles as early as the 1400s, but by the minor Violin Concerto. In 1848 he undertook a tour of displayed the innovations typical of the time – the one four strings. Already Bazzini’s skill in portraying a Photo: Ben Wright Photo: Ben Adams Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic early nineteenth century his father was in straitened Spain and in 1852 he settled in Paris. In 1864, after a movement Hymne Triomphale violin concerto, for romantic sensibility is well developed. Le Départ begins Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, entered the UK Classical circumstances that bordered on poverty. Bazzini’s final concert tour in the Netherlands, he returned to example. Most of his large works date from the latter part with a tragic statement from the piano, which sets the Charts at number 2, and Philip Clark, writing in The godfather, Antonio Buccelleni, was in a position to Brescia and concentrated on composition; he also of his career, the opera Turanda [Turandot] (1867), the stage for the violin’s soulful lament. Le Retour is all happy Gramophone, concluded that ‘Playing like this should secure provide both financially and culturally for young Bazzini. championed instrumental music in Italy through string tone poem Francesca da Rimini (1890), and the blue skies spelled by a broad flowing theme. Chloë Hanslip’s reputation for life’. Her two earlier CDs with A literary man, Buccelleni wrote odes, sonnets, and other quartet performances at the home of Gaetano Franchi symphonic overtures Saul and King Lear (1877 and The Grande Etude No. 1, Op. 49, No.1, is a test of the London Symphony Orchestra for Warner Classics, won poems, including a translation of the Psalms. Bazzini’s and the creation of the Società dei Concerti. Among the 1880). Bazzini is best remembered, however, for his salon endurance in playing a smoothly-flowing stream of her, respectively, the German ‘Echo Klassik Award for Best scores for several of Buccelleni’s poems were among soloists Bazzini brought to Italy were Hans von Bülow music. Every virtuoso, at least until the mid-twentieth semiquaver notes almost from beginning to end; the Newcomer’ in 2002, and ‘Young British Classical Performer’ Bazzini’s first compositions, La Sera – Romanza, and and Anton Rubinstein, in 1870 and 1874 respectively. century, was expected to be a composer for his own Grande Etude No. 2, Op. 49, No. 2, features a striving at the Classical BRITS 2003. Chloë Hanslip made her BBC All’amica lontana. When Bazzini was seven and a half Along with Verdi, Bazzini had an important rôle in instrument, and Bazzini’s legacy is strongest as a theme in 6/8 time. Proms début in 2002, her United States concerto début in years old, Buccelleni engaged Kapellmeister Faustino establishing standard concert pitch (440 Hz), which was composer for the violin. He was entirely in the romantic The three pieces of Op. 44, Allegro, Romance, and 2003, and has performed in major venues in Britain Camisani to teach the boy the violin. Though Camisani first recognised in Italy by the Congresso dei Musicisti vein of Bériot and Paganini, and while not advancing Finale, were published by Ricordi in 1864. These “three (Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore died in 1830, Bazzini had certainly learned his lessons Italiani in 1881. In 1873 he was appointed professor of violin technique, he mastered its intricacies, and stands as pieces forming a sonata” begin with an Allegro, at nine Hall), Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Munich Gasteig, Prague well and was said to have had a solid technique in 1829 musical theory and composition at the Milan Conserv- a prime example of the nineteenth-century virtuoso. minutes the longest piece on the programme and clearly Rudolfinum, Louvre and Salle Gaveau, Paris and the when he was eleven years old. At seventeen Bazzini was atory and became director of the same institution in 1882. The first work on this disc, Calabrese, Op. 34, No. 6 performing the function of an opening movement “centre Hermitage in St Petersburg) as well as Carnegie Hall, and himself a maestro di cappella for the church of San Among his pupils at the Milan Conservatory were (‘Calabrian’), was published by Ricordi in 1859. Op. 34 of gravity” in typical sonata fashion. The Romance is the Seoul Arts Centre. Orchestras she has performed with Filippo in Brescia. His early works were often religious Mascagni and Puccini. He died on 10th February, 1897. is a collection of six characteristic pieces, including another of Bazzini’s beautiful singing pieces, and the include the Philharmonia, London, Bournemouth and Royal in nature, and while at San Filippo he wrote Masses, After his early church music, to which he continued to 1. Marcia religiosa, 2. Les Abeilles, 3. La Calma. Sérénade, Finale possesses the élan of a typical finale. Scottish National Symphony Orchestras, Royal Liverpool Vespers, and six oratorios. His life materially changed add throughout his career, Bazzini turned to the itinerant 4. Conte arabe, 5. Rêverie, and 6. Calabrese. Marked Bazzini’s most famous piece and nearly the only and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, Academy of St Martin-in- on 20th March, 1836, when he played first violin in a player-composer’s trusted ally, music written for his Vivacissimo, Calabrese opens with a statement in the reason he retains a toe-hold in the violinist’s standard the-Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart quintet by Luigi Savi. The work was dedicated to Paganini instrument and especially designed to show off technical piano that leads quickly to a flourish in the violin, repertoire is La Ronde des Lutins – Scherzo fantastique, Players, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade and the dedicatee was in the audience. Paganini advised prowess. Bazzini thus stands in the long tradition of such including several bars in bariolage. Bazzini’s portrayal Op. 25. Though published by Ricordi in 1852, Bazzini Philharmonic, Czech, Lithuanian and Russian National the young man to tour as a virtuoso, and Bazzini took violinist-composers, a tradition that lasted at least until is light and happy-go-lucky; after a dramatic pause the composed it much earlier, mentioning it in a letter from Symphony Orchestras, and the Malaysian, Seattle and Tokyo this advice to heart. Beginning in 1837 he toured Milan, Kreisler. Bazzini, both because of his mainly instrumental piece rushes to a staccato ending. Livorno to the Marchese Leonardo Martellini (3rd May, Symphony Orchestras.