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557708 bk VPCello US 4/01/2005 03:36pm Page 5 Potocka, Princess Marcelina Czartoryska, a gifted bearers of the coffin, performing this last service for Monika Guca DDD pianist, and Franchomme. Princess Czartoryska and Chopin. PHILHARMONIC SOLOISTS • CELLO Franchomme began to play the G minor sonata, until a The flautist Monika Guca was born in Lower Austria and had lessons in recorder and flute from the age of eight. 8.557708 fit of coughing from the sick man brought the concert to Franz Bartolomey From 2000 she studied with Professor Gisler-Haase at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts and in an end. A few days later Franchomme was one of the English Version: Keith Anderson 2004 embarked on an exchange year with Profesor Greiss-Armin at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule. She won first prize in the Prima la Musica Competition in 1999, 2001 and 2003, and the Special Prize of Musica Juventutis in 2004. She has a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Centre, and since 2003 has been a member of the Yehudi THE ART OF THE CELLO Menuhin Foundation’s Live Music Now. In 2000 she founded the Novacella Trio of two flutes and a cello. She has Franz Bartolomey appeared in concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the RadioKulturhaus, and has toured with the Young Vienna Philharmonic. Haydn • Chopin • Hummel The cellist Franz Bartolomey was born in Vienna in 1946 and had his first lessons, from the age of six, with Ewald Winkler. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts with Richard Krotschak and privately with Emanuel Brabec. In 1963 he won the Casals Medal in Budapest, and in 1966 the Tchaikovsky Diploma in Franz Bartolomey, Cello • Madoka Inui, Piano Moscow, with triumph in Vienna in 1976. He has served as principal cellist with the Vienna Philharmonic since Monika Guca, Flute 1973. Franz Bartolomey is a third-generation member of the orchestra. His grandfather was principal clarinet and his father a violinist. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, and is a member of a number of chamber-music groups, including the Vienna Soloists Ensemble and the Vienna Virtuosi. He has appeared as a soloist under the conductors Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, André Previn, Roger Norrington and Simon Rattle, among others, in Philharmonic subscription concerts, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Festival Weeks, Vienna Modern, Carinthian Summer and the Salzburg Mozart Weeks. He has appeared as a soloist with Claudio Abbado’s Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and in chamber music with André Previn, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Oleg Maisenberg, Helmut Deutsch, Ernst Kovacic, Tzimon Barto, Stephan Vladar, Boris Pergamenschikov, Igor Oistrakh, Christian Altenburger, Pierre Amoyal, Gil Shaham, Sylvia McNair, Barbara Bonney, Kathleen Battle, and Jessye Norman. He has given master-courses at the Attergau International Orchestral Institute and the Sapporo Pacific Music Festival, and played for many television transmissions and recordings as a soloist and in chamber music, including a recording of Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote with the Vienna Philharmonic under André Previn, and Cello Sonatas by Brahms and Richard Strauss with Madoka Inui. He plays Madoka Inui Monika Guca a cello by David Tecchler, made in Rome in 1727. Madoka Inui The sponsors of the Philharmonic Soloists series The pianist Madoka Inui was born in Kobe and had her first piano training in Tokyo. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Dianko Iliew and Roland Batik and was awarded her diploma unanimously with distinction. She The Herbert von Karajan Centre was opened in November 1995 and has established itself, in the spirit of the name won first prize in the Città di Stresa international piano competition and has appeared as a soloist in Austria, Japan of its patron, as a meeting and development centre for young artists and as a forum for artistic activities. Following and Spain. Since 1997 she has concentrated chiefly on chamber music, working with members of the Vienna the many and varied interests of the conductor, the concept is structured under three main headings: development Philharmonic such as Franz Bartolomey, Clemens Hellsberg, Peter Schmidl and Volkhard Steude. She broadcasts of the younger generation, events and service. Since its foundation awards have been made to singers, conductors for Austrian radio and has appeared in concerts and gala performances with artists such as Luc Bondy, Gérard and instrumentalists. The archive administers Herbert von Karajan’s legacy, and special film production continues Mortier, Gert Voss, Ioan Holender, Peter Ruzicka, Neil Shicoff, Thomas Hampson, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Leo his tradition. Nucci. She has participated in matinées and soirées with Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Donna Leon. With the Vienna Philharmonic principal cellist Franz Bartolomey she has recorded music for The Radio Culture House of Austrian Radio (ORF) in Vienna was opened in 1997 and has established an annual cello and piano by Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss. She is a contract artist of Bösendorfer in programme of more than 450 events ranging over a wide variety of genres for the public with cultural interests, Vienna, and plays here on a Bösendorfer instrument. where classical appears together with the avant-garde, pop and cabaret. This cultural mix is characteristic of the www.madokamusic.com programming philosophy of the Radio Culture House. 8.557708 5 6 8.557708 557708 bk VPCello US 4/01/2005 03:36pm Page 2 range of musical feeling. There were wonderful descending chromatic scale shows where his path is was Kapellmeister at Weimar. The work is in connection with recitative: the cello accompanies the Chamber Works for Cello concertos by Schumann, Dvorˇák, Saint-Saëns, leading. characteristic of this transition. It often seems as if one dialogue between flute and piano, showing them how to Hummel • Haydn • Chopin Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky (Rococo Variations), Continuo playing is a fascinating element in opera. is hearing a cello sonata by Mozart (nothing of the kind keep their fantasy within bounds. Brahms (Double Concerto), and Elgar, and works in Working on recitatives in Mozart’s operas with exists), mingled with passages of poignancy, while A Short History of the Cello cellos. Montagnana, Grancino, Testore and Tecchler which the cello had a concertante rôle by Richard Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a conductor with whom many elements have the force of Beethoven, and the specialised almost exclusively in the instrument. Strauss (Don Quixote) and Hindemith. collaboration was among my most decisive artistic beginning of the first movement offers a melody like a Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849): The violoncello, meaning, in Italian, a small violone, is My instrument, on which I play in the present For me the cello has a particularly fascinating and encounters, opened a completely new dimension of particularly fine theme of Chopin. The second Sonata in G minor for cello and piano Op. 65 generally known by the shorter name of ‘cello’, and is a recording, was made by David Tecchler (1666-after important place in opera. There it embodies the direct musical expression. The specific dramatic situations movement is a Romance, that today would be said to string instrument an octave lower than the viola, its four 1743) in Rome in 1727. A master-craftsman from expression of the human soul in music. With its range it that drive the plot forward are found in the recitatives. have hit quality: the principal theme resembles the 1971 Chopin too was one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of strings tuned C-G-d-a. Its structure and form correspond Salzburg, he first went to Venice, where he experienced has an almost physical affinity with the human and Each individual note has its importance, with notes that hit-song Butterfly, my Butterfly by the Belgian Daniel his time and his compositions are almost exclusively for to those of the violin, but the neck is relatively shorter some hostility, moving in 1705 to Rome where he responds directly to it. It is the instrument that can are violent, pointed, loud, gentle, particularly Gérard, which topped the hit-parade for months. This the piano. It is through his friendship with the famous and the sides deeper. The bow is somewhat shorter, but reached the height of his profession, considered the express the deepest feelings of love and death. beautifully played, slow, fast or without vibrato. As a shows how a composer of this ability can survive after cellist Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884) that he wrote stronger than that used for the violin. most important maker there. His splendidly made Unique in all opera is the cello solo in Die Frau continuo player one is a part of the musical dramatic one and a half centuries of oblivion. In the third three of his four chamber-music works for cello and As the violin may correspond to the discant, and the instruments are marked by their great fullness of tone. ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss, my favourite solo: situation. movement the internationally celebrated virtuoso piano. viola to the tenor, so the cello was originally identical He generally preferred very large models, using special the curtain falls, while the scene is changed, and the pianist comes to the fore: here the cello part is The Cello Sonata is a late work that he wrote for with the bass of the old viola da braccio family. It had a wood and a yellow-red varnish. A characteristic is the cello, free of stage action, becomes the protagonist. discriminated against in such a way that the important his friend, with whom he gave the first performance in longer struggle than its two sisters to free itself from the lengthening of the corners and the particularly wide F King Philip sings in the great aria from Verdi’s Don The CD: Works by Hummel, Haydn and Chopin.

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