Yutaka Sado Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Yutaka Sado Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
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TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY No.5 Yutaka Sado Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY No.5 Yutaka Sado Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin 3 PYOTR IL’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Symphony no. 5 in e minor, op. 64 [1] Andante – Allegro con anima 16:03 [2] Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza 14:07 [3] Valse: Allegro moderato 6:42 [4] Finale: Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace 13:33 [5] Slavonic March, op. 31 9:23 total time 59:58 4 5 Yutaka Sado conducts Tchaikovsky’s and slow at the start. On May 30 he composer was assailed by acute feel- It is no coincidence that the Fifth Sym- Fifth Symphony wrote to his patroness, Nadezhda von ings of self-doubt: “After having per- phony found a positive echo in Ger- Meck, that he was about to “squeeze a formed the symphony twice in St Pe- many, for within Tchaikovsky’s oeuvre it After completing the Third Symphony symphony from my benumbed brain”. tersburg and once in Prague, I am con- is regarded as a work sensible of form (1875) and the Fourth Symphony He seems to have overcome this vinced it is a failure. There is something and oriented on the German model. (1878), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky did minor crisis very quickly, however, for repellent in it, something insincere and The first movement has a stringently not turn to writing another symphony the first draft of the work was already artificial. Am I worn out, as you say? constructed sonata form, in which for 10 years. Although the composer completed by June 22. The composer Yesterday evening I looked through the rhythmically striking main theme resumed work on this form in 1885 finished the orchestration on August the Fourth Symphony. How much combines with the expressive ancillary in the Manfred Symphony, he did 14 and writes contentedly to his friend nobler, how much better it is!” This theme in repeated dialectic heighten- not include it in the numbered series, and patroness: “I may say that this self-criticism was often cited as a proof ing of the development. The whole since it belonged to the genre of symphony does not take a back seat to of the supposed weakness of the work, structure is based on a leitmotif: the programme music. (The second the earlier ones.” but it should not be overestimated. For “Fate Motif” sounded at the start by piece on the recording, Marche Slave Tchaikovsky was a notorious doubter the clarinet appears in each of the four [Slavonic March] was written shortly The world premiere of the Fifth Sym- and extremely vulnerable when facing movements, endowing a formal unity before the Fourth Symphony as an phony took place in St. Petersburg on criticism. The letter to Mme von Meck to the totality of the work. The reason occasional work for a benefit concert November under Tchaikovsky’s baton. quoted here is more of a reaction to why it is linked to ideas of fate derives on behalf of the victims of the Turkish- It was a triumph, and the composer the shock, and he poured out his feel- from Tchaikovsky’s personal program- Serbian War.) It was only after his first received frenetic applause from an ings into it. After he performed the matic notes: “Introduction. Total sub- European tour in April 1888, when enthralled audience. However, the Fifth Symphony with great success a mission before fate, or, which is the he conducted his own works and reaction from the press was cool and year later in Hamburg and received an same thing, the inscrutable designs of received the long awaited appraisal in harshly critical of the work. One critic approving gesture from Brahms, he Providence.” The motif – taken from Berlin, Paris and London, that he felt even wrote that the piece contained no calmed down again: “The symphony Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar – de- the energy to write a new symphony. fewer than three waltzes and did noth- doesn’t seem to me so bad at all and velops throughout the course of the Nonetheless, work on it was arduous ing but repeat itself. Thus the insecure I’m starting to love it more and more.” piece from initial gloom to a glorious 6 7 march. Just as the original vocal mel- programme on television and calls his Yutaka Sado appointed First Guest Conductor of ody (“Turn not back to sorrow”) sings concert cycle for schoolgoers “Young the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano of a turning away from grief, so the People’s Concerts” – the name of the Yutaka Sado was born in Kyoto (Japan) “Giuseppe Verdi”. Sado is a regular music battles for victory and endeav- legendary concert series by the New and attended the Kyoto City University guest with leading orchestras including ours to conquer fate. This structural York Philharmonic Orchestra, which of the Arts. In 1987 he studied with the Orchestre de Paris, progression in form and content is far Bernstein conducted in the sixties. Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at the Orchestre National de France, the removed from the composer’s sup- But what we hear in this recording the Tanglewood Music Festival and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio posed “emotional exhibitionism”. Far is hardly reminiscent of Bernstein’s became Bernstein’s assistant during France, the Konzerthausorchester more, it shows his mastery in capturing all-consuming personal style. Sado his concert tour with the Schleswig- Berlin, the Bavarian Radio emotions in a clear language of forms. lays great store by the quiet tones, Holstein Festival Orchestra. He won Symphony Orchestra, the Sächsische shading the middle section for strings the Premier Grand Prix of the 39th Staatskapelle Dresden, the Yutaka Sado’s interpretation is based with finely nuanced colours. The International Competition for Young Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the on this understanding of the work. basic mood lies in the world-weary Conductors Besançon in 1989 and later Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, The Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester melancholy, which is expressed with the first prize in the Leonard Bernstein the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia Berlin plays precisely and judiciously, particular intensity in the concentrated International Competition (1995). Sado Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the and the darkly shimmering rendering pianissimo of the second movement. assisted Bernstein and Michael Tilson Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della resonates in an even balance of drama There is no sign here of misinterpreted Thomas in founding the Pacific Music RAI and the Orchestre de la Suisse and finesse. And this, although the melodrama and sentimentality – what Festival in Sapporo (Japan), where he Romande. In his home country he has conductor, who was born in Kyoto in Tchaikovsky called “insincerity”. appeared as permanent conductor been the artistic director of the Hyogo 1961, achieved prominence as a pupil Sado gives the work back its original and guest conductor. In 1993 Sado Performing Arts Center since 2005. of Leonard Bernstein, assisting him aesthetics of form and the deeply felt was appointed chief conductor of the in his late tour of Germany and the naturalness of the emotions. Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux; he USSR. His attachment to Bernstein was soon able to tie in the orchestra’s is so consequential that like his Taka Kidokoro reputation with the legendary era teacher he is the presenter of a music Translated by Abigail Ryan Prohaska of Igor Markevitch. In 1999 he was 8 9 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester the orchestra, it was renamed Edinburgh International Festival, the Berlin Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Merano Festival, the Festival ›Sagra (RSO). In 1993, to avoid confusion Musicale Malatestiana‹ in Rimini and For more than 60 years, the Deutsches in Berlin’s newly reunified cultural the Beethovenfest Bonn. In March Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) landscape, the orchestra decided 2010, the orchestra will embark on has distinguished itself as one of to relinquish its familiar name a substantial European tour with Germany’s leading orchestras. The in favour of its present one. Ingo Metzmacher and violinist number of renowned Music Directors, Leonidas Kavakos which will take the scope and variety of its work, and Tours of the DSO have included the ensemble to Innsbruck, Paris, its particular emphasis on modern concerts in Lebanon, Russia, Asia, the Brussels, Warsaw and the Musikverein and contemporary music, makes USA and South America, as well as in Vienna. The DSO’s touring season the ensemble unique. In 2007 Ingo regular engagements at the Salzburg will culminate in a residency at the Metzmacher became its sixth Principal Festival and the Festspielhaus Baden- 2010 Salzburger Festspiele which Conductor and Artistic Director Baden. Its relationship with the the orchestra will open with a newly succeeding Ferenc Fricsay, Lorin German international broadcaster commissioned opera by German Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Deutsche Welle has resulted in a composer Wolfgang Rihm. Ashkenazy und Kent Nagano. series of guest performances in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, the DSO For further information please visit: The orchestra was founded in 1946 performed in the major European www.dso-berlin.de as RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester by the concerts halls. In August|September broadcasting station in the American 2009 the DSO and Ingo Metzmacher sector of Berlin. In 1956, when the appeared together on a seven-concert former Sender Freies Berlin (today festivals tour with violinist Christian Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Tetzlaff with concerts of the Rheingau rbb) assumed responsibility for Festival, the Kunstfest Weimar, the 10 11 12 13 Yutaka Sado dirigiert Tschaikowskis verspürt er die Kraft, eine neue Kritiker schrieb sogar, dass das Werk höchst erfolgreich aufführte und eine Fünfte Symphonie Symphonie zu schreiben. Dennoch nicht weniger als drei Walzer enthalte anerkennende Geste von Brahms geht die Arbeit anfangs nur mühsam und er sich nur wiederhole.