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570773 Bk Markevitch 15/7/08 19:35 Page 16 570773 bk Markevitch 15/7/08 19:35 Page 16 National Radio Symphony Orchestra received acclaimed notices worldwide, while The Gramophone, Fanfare, Classics Igor Today and Penguin Guide to Compact Discs have all recognised his work, the last with numerous Rosettes and a Key Recordings listing. Australian critics’ organizations named him Artist of the Year and Best Opera Conductor, the latter for his conducting of the world première of Larry Sitsky’s The Golem at Sydney Opera House. Also a widely performed MARKEVITCH composer, Lyndon-Gee was awarded a prestigious composition prize by the Onassis Foundation, Athens, in 2001. He has won the Adolf Spivakovsky Prize, the Sounds Australian Award (three times), and two MacDowell Fellowships. He is currently working on major orchestral works including The Auschwitz Poems, Socrates’ Death (intended for performance at Canterbury Cathedral, in his native England), and a second commission for the German conductor Eckart Schloifer, … Complete Orchestral Works • 1 und unter den Blättern saß Er, weinend. During 2003 his setting of an ancient Greek Ode under the title The Temple of Athena Pronaea had its première in New York. In the same week, On the Theory of Cosmic Strings received its première by Peter Sheppard Skærved at the Odense Festival, Denmark, and has since been performed over fifty times. Frammento Partita • Le Paradis Perdu (Oratorio) del Dante, a setting of lines from the Paradiso, was commissioned by the Echo Klassiek Preis-winning German ensemble SingerPur, and had its première in Florence in 2006. Lyndon-Gee is now working on a further work for SingerPur, Lieder des Morgensterns. In 2004 he co-ordinated eight composers (including himself) to set the work of the American poet Soloists • Netherlands Concert Choir laureate William Meredith in honour of Meredith’s 85th birthday, for a “Songbook” recital that toured worldwide in more than 22 performances. A 25th Anniversary Presteigne Festival Commission, Over Litton, after a poem of Edward Storey, had its première in 2007. Lyndon-Gee studied under Arthur Hutchings and Rudolf Schwartz in Great Britain, Franco Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra • Lyndon-Gee Ferrara and Goffredo Petrassi in Italy, and Igor Markevitch at Monte Carlo. Hearing him conduct a student concert in Rome, Leonard Bernstein invited him to Tanglewood, where he met Bruno Maderna, becoming the latter’s assistant in Milan. Erich Leinsdorf and Maurice Abravanel were also influential on his work. He enjoyed a busy early career as pianist, specialising in contemporary repertoire; over 200 new works were written for him, by composers such as Oliver Knussen, Jonathan Lloyd, Nicola LeFanu, David Bedford, Mauro Cardi, Ada Gentile, Silvano Bussotti and many more. Since 2005, he has conducted regularly at the prestigious Warsaw Autumn Festival; at the 2007 Jubilee Fiftieth Anniversary Festival, he conducted four world premières by distinguished Polish, Lithuanian and Slovakian composers; in late 2006 he led the closing concert of the eight-day Festival entirely devoted to the works of leading Polish composer Paweł Szymański. As Music Director of the Adelphi Symphony based on Long Island, New York, he has gathered an orchestra of predominantly Russian and Ukrainian expatriate musicians, in programmes featuring music of Peteris Vasks, Louis Andriessen, Alfred Schnittke, Joanne Metcalf, Sidney Boquiren, Arvo Pärt and rare American performances of works such as Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 ‘Babi Yar’, Messiaen’s Trois Petites Liturgies, Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, as well as many new works. He serves also as Chair of the Music Department at New York’s Adelphi University. His hectic freelance career includes regular visits to orchestras in Germany, Poland, Italy, England, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Russia and several other countries. Partita recorded at the Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, The Netherlands, on 20th and 21st June, 1997 Le Paradis Perdu recorded at live performances at the Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, on 10th March, 1999, and at the Concertzaal de Vereeniging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 11th March, 1999, Studio corrections were made at the Concertzaal de Vereeniging, Nijmegen, on 12th March, 1999 Producer and editor: Benno Torrenga • Engineer: Henk Midderham Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Inc. 8.570773 16 570773 bk Markevitch 15/7/08 19:35 Page 2 Igor Markevitch (1912-1983) Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Markevitch Cantate and Le Paradis Perdu, both recorded for Marco Polo, as well as Complete Orchestral Works • 1 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky); the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra under Yutaka Sado and Jan Caeyers; the Limburg Symphony Orchestra under Jurjen Hempel (Peter Maxwell Davies’ Job); the Netherlands Radio This first volume of the complete orchestral works of the reasons for his abandoning composition; and his Symphony Orchestra under Nikolai Alekseyev, Giuliano Carella and Eri Klas (Tchaikovsky’s Evgeni Onegin); the Igor Markevitch1 features his most ambitious large-scale autobiography Être et avoir été, published in 1980, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Edo de Waart (Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ and Beethoven Mass in C) composition, the oratorio Le Paradis Perdu. obfuscates and misleads even as it makes a show of and Valery Gergiev (Berlioz Requiem); and the BBC Concert Orchestra under Barry Wordsworth in the opening Markevitch’s arrestingly original orchestral music led to revealing the writer’s inner life. concert, entitled ‘Highlights of the Proms’, of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw’s British Season 2003. Also in 2003, his being hailed in the 1930s as one of the singular voices Markevitch is dissimilar to the “conductor- the choir toured with the Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Peña and his Flamenco Company to Lebanon and Greece of his time, yet he was subsequently ignored - not least by composer” model exemplified by Furtwängler, with his Misa Flamenca. himself in later life. Apart from a handful of radio Klemperer, Weingartner and many others between the broadcasts and one work preserved on 78rpm discs, this wars. Contrary to them, he emerged first as a Rob Vermeulen series constitutes the first recordings ever made of these phenomenally gifted adolescent composer exalted by his remarkable works. Thus, these discs may offer the contemporaries on the basis of an astoundingly assured Rob Vermeulen was born in 1961 and studied at the Arnhem and Rotterdam Schools of Music where he received his beginnings of an opportunity to decipher the mystery that series of early scores, turning to conducting almost Choral Directing Diploma and School Music Diploma. He attended master-classes in choral and orchestral directing is Igor Markevitch. reluctantly when required by his own work and by the led by, amongst others, Laszlo Heltay, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Uwe Gronostay and also took part in the Kirill The sole precedent of Rossini - who retired from the hardships of post-war life. Yet, after changing course to Kondrashin master-class for orchestral conductors. Rob Vermeulen has been the artistic director and choirmaster of composition of opera at the age of 38 to become a this new career exclusively as a conductor at thirty, he all the Netherlands Concert Choir since 1993. He lectures in choral conducting at the Arnhem Conservatoire and is restaurateur, but continued to write salon music and but denied the existence of his own music until nearly senior lecturer in choral conducting at the Utrecht Conservatoire. In addition, Vermeulen is conductor and artistic sacred works - seems hardly comparable. Markevitch’s seventy years old. When questioned in 1958 about his director of a number of chamber choirs. Since 1990, he has also been the conductor of the Utrecht Project Choir, renunciation at 29 of his identity as a composer is a early life as composer, he replied diffidently: which specializes in performing contemporary choral music. unique case in the history of music. To quote David “I would say to you, very frankly, that I am objective Drew, “It is a silence like no other in the music of this enough to claim that there is music which needs to be Het Gelders Orkest (Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra) century or before”. heard before mine, and for which the need is more urgent. At first glance, the eclipse during his lifetime of Apart from that, if my works are good enough, they can Based in Arnhem, the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra gives some hundred symphony concerts each season in the Markevitch’s reputation as a composer appears due, more wait; and if they cannot wait, it is pointless to play them”. province of Gelderland, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht, and abroad, including tours to Spain, Austria, than any other single factor, to the dimensions of his The facts of his ‘first life’ are remarkable enough. Germany and Hungary. In 2007 the orchestra toured Japan for the first time and returns there in 2009. From the success as a conductor. Born in Ki’ev on 27th July, 1912, he moved to Paris with 2003-2004 season Martin Sieghart took over as Chief Conductor and artistic adviser of the orchestra. Ken-ichro What has yet to be fully explained, however, is why his family in 1914 before settling in Switzerland. As early Kobayashi was appointed Permanent Conductor from the 2006-2007 season, and Nikolai Alexeev Permanent Guest his life divides so dramatically and uncompromisingly as the age of thirteen, he played his piano suite Noces to Conductor in 2002. Former Chief Conductors include Lawrence Renes, Roberto Benzi and Yoav Talmi. Other into two halves - clearly a conscious decision on his part, Alfred Cortot, who recommended the work to his conductors who have regularly made guest appearances with the orchestra in the past years include Bernard Klee, and one whose true reasons this intensely private man publishers and invited the boy to study with him. Hans Vonk, Jaap van Zweden and Roy Goodman. Soloists such as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Leif Ove Andsnes, Zoltan seems to have sought to keep hidden.
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