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Julia-Maria Kretz Bernhard Krug AMERICAN CLASSICS Julia-Maria Kretz began her musical studies in 1989 at the age of nine Bernhard Krug was born in 1967. He played the piano from the age of with Marianne Boettcher at the Julius Stern Institute of the University six and at sixteen had his first horn lessons as a student of Anton of the Arts in Berlin. She then studied with Thomas Brandis at the Hammer. He continued his studies with Gerd Seifert at the Berlin Berlin University of the Arts and with Josef Suk in Prague. With her College of Arts, and later at the Orchestra College of the Berlin Stanley piano trio, the Julius Stern Trio, formed in 1996, she studied with Philharmonic Orchestra. He graduated with distinction, and was Menahem Pressler, Niklas Schmidt, György Sebök and Georg Sava. scholar of the Foundation for Higher Studies of the German People. She was winner of the Jugend musiziert Competition and is a fellow of Since 1991 he has been a member and since 1992 first horn of the WALDEN the German National Scholarship Foundation and of PE Friends for Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. Since 1999 he has also been a Music Scholars. She received the Classic Prize from WDR and the member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He has appeared as a Rauhe Prize from Hamburg in 2005. She is also first-prize winner of soloist with renowned orchestras playing horn concerts by Mozart, the Marie Luise Imbusch Competition, while her piano trio received Haydn, Glière, Strauss, Telemann and Weber. As a chamber musician Maquettes for Two Pianos the WDR Classic Prize and first prize of the 2004 Florence Premio Vittorio Gui, the Trio di Trieste in Trieste he has toured Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, Austria, Spain and (2005), and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition in Berlin (2005). As a soloist she has appeared with the the United States in different ensembles, including the Leipzig Berlin and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestras, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, and the Bad Reichenhall Gewandhaus Oktett, of which he is a founding member. Bernhard Krug teaches at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Sh’mah • Five Similes • Horn Trio Philharmonic Orchestra. She also appears with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of which she has been a member University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and gives master-courses at universities in Germany and Japan. More since 2001 and, working with Claudio Abbado, of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. Julia-Maria Kretz information available at: www.musarc.de performs on a violin by Joseph Nicola Gagliano, Naples, ca. 1791. Spectrum Concerts Berlin Photographs by Omar Ingerslev and Eckhard Joite Jens Peter Maintz

Jens Peter Maintz studied with David Geringas and attended master-classes by Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenshikov and Siegfried Palm. He won first prize at the Munich Competition in 1994, and in 1995 became principal cellist of the Berlin Other CDs by Spectrum Concerts Berlin on Naxos: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. He became professor of cello at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2004. He is also a member of the Trio Fontenay. As a soloist and 8.557153 Dohnányi: Serenade for String Trio • Sextet chamber musician, Jens Peter Maintz has given concerts throughout Europe and in 8.559173 Harbison: Four Songs of Solitude • Variations • Twilight Music the Americas, appearing with distinguished conductors and colleagues. In December 8.559199 Helps: Shall We Dance • Piano Quartet • Postlude • Nocturne • The Darkened Valley (Ireland) 2003 he was soloist for the first German performance of Richard Danielpour’s Cello 8.559282 Toch Vol. 1: Tanz-Suite • Cello Concerto Concerto No. 1 at the Berlin Philharmonic, and at Claudio Abbado’s invitation, has 8.559324 Toch Vol. 2: Impromptus for Solo Cello • Sonata for Violin and Piano been the principal cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. In the Piano Quintet • Burlesken for Solo Piano 2006–2007 season he performed the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski and the Brahms Double Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher. His first CD with Sony Classical was awarded the Echo prize. He has also recorded the Isang Yun Cello Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin for Capriccio. Jens Peter Maintz performs on a cello by Vincenzo Ruggeri, 1696, and on a cello by Wolfgang Schnabl, 2005. More information is available at www.krautheim-concepts.de A co-production with Kulturradio from rbb

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Stanley Walden (b. 1932) keys and the strings and various pedalings. and, since art is always a public act (no matter what the Ya-Fei Chuang Maquettes • Horn Trio • Five Similes • Sh’mah Air, in both senses, i.e. as “tune” and “texture”. ars gratia artis crew may maintain), the dedication (Before this piece starts, the players are directed to serves the purpose that publishing banns does for the Prizewinner in the Cologne International Piano Competition at the age of eighteen, (Some Changes/Albany Records), Reri Grist, Robert imagine four bars of an unplayed jazz waltz [notated in engaged. A set of piano miniatures offered the the pianist Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television in her native Taiwan at the Levin, Gilbert Kalish, Joel Krosnick and Carole Cowan. their parts for bass and drums] which the audience never possibility of paying several “attentions” in the same age of eight and gave her first public recital when she was nine At ten she won first Among Walden’s many musical-theater works are hears). piece. The Similes are not meant as portraits – we are all prize in the nationally televised Genius vs. Genius Competition and at eleven took the operas Liebster Vater for the Bremen Stadtheater Por Chucho; Chucho Valdes is an extraordinary much more complicated than that – but allusions are first prize at the Taiwan National Competition. She went on to study at the Freiburg (also in Berlin, Weimar and New York), Bachs Letzte Cuban piano virtuoso and composer, founder of the appropriate. Musikhochschule with Rosa Sabater and Robert Levin, with awards including the Oper (Erfurt) and Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights group Irakera. Cuban music and much of the entire 1. Like a sigh… (Terry Gittleman); 2. Like bullets... Freiburg Mendelssohn Prize. She concluded her German studies with Pavel Gililov at (Cologne and New York) and the musicals Oh! Latin-American music world would be inconceivable (Zelda Dolgin); 3. Like memory… (Stephen Sell); the Cologne Musikhochschule. In 1993 she moved to the United States, taking a Calcutta! (with Jacques Levy and The Open Window), without the Valdes family. 4. Like a shadow… (Tony and Sandy Black); 5. Like a graduate diploma at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Russell Sherman. performed thoughout the world, Miami Lights (Miami, Sh’mah, for violin and cello, is based on material smile… (Jan DeGaetani). Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared at festivals in Europe and the United States and Palo Alto), Back Country (Boston), Café Mitte (with originally composed for the Burg Theater (Vienna) The Trio for horn, violin and piano was written at appeared in major concert halls as a soloist and in collaboration with distinguished Volker Ludwig, Grips Theater Berlin [Sony Records]), production of George Tabori’s Mein Kampf.The the request of the pianist Gilbert Kalish. Only after I had colleagues in chamber music and duo recitals. Die Bettleroper (Berlin). Also Endangered Species material is developed from three sources of traditional started the first movement (Dolente) did I realize that I (Martha Clarke, BAM), The Serpent and Mutation Show Jewish melodies. 1. The Shmah yisroel, one of the oldest was writing out of a controlled sadness and rage about (The Open Theater) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle and most central of the Hebrew texts: ”Hear, O Israel, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 – the destruction of the (Arena Theater, Washington, D.C.). the Lord our God, the Lord is One!” (it is important to Twin Towers in New York. At the beginning of the Alongside his activity as composer and conductor, think of the title Sh’mah as being in the imperative). 2. movement I ask both the violin and the horn to employ Stanley Walden was born in Brooklyn, New York, in Walden has participated as actor and director in over Eli, Eli (also appearing as the last words of Christ on the “practice mutes”, those devices that reduce the sound to 1932. A graduate of Queens College, he studied fifty stage productions in the United States and Europe, cross) and 3. T’keeyaw, the text intoned along with the an almost inaudible level (hence their being used to Robert Levin composition privately with Ben Weber, a student of many with the director George Tabori. Among his film blown shofar (ram’s horn) for the New Year. “practice” in semi-public spaces). This choked-off Schoenberg. As a clarinetist he performed with the New scores are Desperado City (Camera d’or, Cannes) and Similes, five miniatures for solo piano. 1989 was sound represents for me the almost inchoate feelings Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Australia York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Frohes Fest (Mannheim Film Prize). Together with his not a good year for my circle: we lost six of those – that well up when I think of that awful act and, as I said, and in Asia. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and many others. He wife Barbara he published the standard instructional text relatives, friends, colleagues – who help to define who I was surprised when they made themseles manifest. Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and was a faculty member at the Juilliard School, The State Life Upon The Wicked Stage. and where we are. Having spent the first six months in Passamezzo is an old dance form, better known in the Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, University at Purchase, Sarah Lawrence College and Berlin, I felt more free-floating than usual, and the many French form Passepied. Salsa and Trio is an obvious Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Joseph guest composer at the Eastman School, S.M.U. and Composer’s Notes deaths affected me deeply. Whenever I finish a piece play on the classical form of Minuet and Trio. Battaglia Silverstein. On period pianos he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, Yale. He was musical assistant to Martha Graham, (and sometimes before I begin) I am beset with the need is my venting of my rage at the terrorists. I do not know the English Baroque Soloists, the Handel & Haydn Society, the London Classical Jerome Robbins and Jose Limon. In 1990 he founded Maquettes, for two pianos, was a commission from to dedicate it – sometimes in memoriam - because, as if it is appropriate for a composer to allow his emotions Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre the Department of Musical Theater at the Berlin Robert Levin and his wife, Ya Fei. Although at least a Arthur Miller put it: “Attention must be paid”. to so intrude into his music, but vide Picasso with Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Universität der Künste, which he led until 2003. Among generation older than he, I, as many of my colleagues, Dedications, aside from those obeisant to a patron, are Guernica. Sir Charles Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan, and Sir Roger Norrington. Renowned for his commissions are Invisible Cities for the Philadelphia had always been in awe of his musicianship and one of the few avenues available to the creative artist in his improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf, Weewis for the Joffrey abilities. I chose Maquettes as a title because, for me, which publicly to proclaim his or her gratitude or love Stanley Walden Levin has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca/London, Deutsche Gram- Ballet, the chamber symphony After Auschwitz for these are work “models” (as are the maquettes used by mophon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Musica Viva under Sydney Hodkinson (which Walden sculptors and architects) that focus on elements of the Philips and Sony Classical. Robert Levin’s active career as a chamber musician includes a long association with the also conducted with the Potsdam Philharmonic, and the two-piano sonic world … in the nineteenth century they violist Kim Kashkashian. He appears frequently with his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, in duo recitals and with Budapest Chamber Symphony in Cividale). Circus is would have been called “Etudes”. orchestra. After more than a quarter century as an artist faculty member at the Sarasota Music Festival he succeeded recorded on Lousiville Records under Jorge Mester, and Fanfare deals with the massed sonorities available Paul Wolfe as Artistic Director in 2007. He is President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition was also played by the Chicago Symphony under Seizi with 176 keys. (Leipzig, Germany), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Ozawa and in Cleveland, under Louis Lane. He has Song is about solo and accompaniment. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. written chamber and solo works for Jan DeGaetani Timbre explores the possibilities of playing on the

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Stanley Walden (b. 1932) keys and the strings and various pedalings. and, since art is always a public act (no matter what the Ya-Fei Chuang Maquettes • Horn Trio • Five Similes • Sh’mah Air, in both senses, i.e. as “tune” and “texture”. ars gratia artis crew may maintain), the dedication (Before this piece starts, the players are directed to serves the purpose that publishing banns does for the Prizewinner in the Cologne International Piano Competition at the age of eighteen, (Some Changes/Albany Records), Reri Grist, Robert imagine four bars of an unplayed jazz waltz [notated in engaged. A set of piano miniatures offered the the pianist Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television in her native Taiwan at the Levin, Gilbert Kalish, Joel Krosnick and Carole Cowan. their parts for bass and drums] which the audience never possibility of paying several “attentions” in the same age of eight and gave her first public recital when she was nine At ten she won first Among Walden’s many musical-theater works are hears). piece. The Similes are not meant as portraits – we are all prize in the nationally televised Genius vs. Genius Competition and at eleven took the operas Liebster Vater for the Bremen Stadtheater Por Chucho; Chucho Valdes is an extraordinary much more complicated than that – but allusions are first prize at the Taiwan National Competition. She went on to study at the Freiburg (also in Berlin, Weimar and New York), Bachs Letzte Cuban piano virtuoso and composer, founder of the appropriate. Musikhochschule with Rosa Sabater and Robert Levin, with awards including the Oper (Erfurt) and Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights group Irakera. Cuban music and much of the entire 1. Like a sigh… (Terry Gittleman); 2. Like bullets... Freiburg Mendelssohn Prize. She concluded her German studies with Pavel Gililov at (Cologne and New York) and the musicals Oh! Latin-American music world would be inconceivable (Zelda Dolgin); 3. Like memory… (Stephen Sell); the Cologne Musikhochschule. In 1993 she moved to the United States, taking a Calcutta! (with Jacques Levy and The Open Window), without the Valdes family. 4. Like a shadow… (Tony and Sandy Black); 5. Like a graduate diploma at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Russell Sherman. performed thoughout the world, Miami Lights (Miami, Sh’mah, for violin and cello, is based on material smile… (Jan DeGaetani). Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared at festivals in Europe and the United States and Palo Alto), Back Country (Boston), Café Mitte (with originally composed for the Burg Theater (Vienna) The Trio for horn, violin and piano was written at appeared in major concert halls as a soloist and in collaboration with distinguished Volker Ludwig, Grips Theater Berlin [Sony Records]), production of George Tabori’s Mein Kampf.The the request of the pianist Gilbert Kalish. Only after I had colleagues in chamber music and duo recitals. Die Bettleroper (Berlin). Also Endangered Species material is developed from three sources of traditional started the first movement (Dolente) did I realize that I (Martha Clarke, BAM), The Serpent and Mutation Show Jewish melodies. 1. The Shmah yisroel, one of the oldest was writing out of a controlled sadness and rage about (The Open Theater) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle and most central of the Hebrew texts: ”Hear, O Israel, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 – the destruction of the (Arena Theater, Washington, D.C.). the Lord our God, the Lord is One!” (it is important to Twin Towers in New York. At the beginning of the Alongside his activity as composer and conductor, think of the title Sh’mah as being in the imperative). 2. movement I ask both the violin and the horn to employ Stanley Walden was born in Brooklyn, New York, in Walden has participated as actor and director in over Eli, Eli (also appearing as the last words of Christ on the “practice mutes”, those devices that reduce the sound to 1932. A graduate of Queens College, he studied fifty stage productions in the United States and Europe, cross) and 3. T’keeyaw, the text intoned along with the an almost inaudible level (hence their being used to Robert Levin composition privately with Ben Weber, a student of many with the director George Tabori. Among his film blown shofar (ram’s horn) for the New Year. “practice” in semi-public spaces). This choked-off Schoenberg. As a clarinetist he performed with the New scores are Desperado City (Camera d’or, Cannes) and Similes, five miniatures for solo piano. 1989 was sound represents for me the almost inchoate feelings Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Australia York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Frohes Fest (Mannheim Film Prize). Together with his not a good year for my circle: we lost six of those – that well up when I think of that awful act and, as I said, and in Asia. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and many others. He wife Barbara he published the standard instructional text relatives, friends, colleagues – who help to define who I was surprised when they made themseles manifest. Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and was a faculty member at the Juilliard School, The State Life Upon The Wicked Stage. and where we are. Having spent the first six months in Passamezzo is an old dance form, better known in the Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, University at Purchase, Sarah Lawrence College and Berlin, I felt more free-floating than usual, and the many French form Passepied. Salsa and Trio is an obvious Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Joseph guest composer at the Eastman School, S.M.U. and Composer’s Notes deaths affected me deeply. Whenever I finish a piece play on the classical form of Minuet and Trio. Battaglia Silverstein. On period pianos he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, Yale. He was musical assistant to Martha Graham, (and sometimes before I begin) I am beset with the need is my venting of my rage at the terrorists. I do not know the English Baroque Soloists, the Handel & Haydn Society, the London Classical Jerome Robbins and Jose Limon. In 1990 he founded Maquettes, for two pianos, was a commission from to dedicate it – sometimes in memoriam - because, as if it is appropriate for a composer to allow his emotions Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre the Department of Musical Theater at the Berlin Robert Levin and his wife, Ya Fei. Although at least a Arthur Miller put it: “Attention must be paid”. to so intrude into his music, but vide Picasso with Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Universität der Künste, which he led until 2003. Among generation older than he, I, as many of my colleagues, Dedications, aside from those obeisant to a patron, are Guernica. Sir Charles Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan, and Sir Roger Norrington. Renowned for his commissions are Invisible Cities for the Philadelphia had always been in awe of his musicianship and one of the few avenues available to the creative artist in his improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf, Weewis for the Joffrey abilities. I chose Maquettes as a title because, for me, which publicly to proclaim his or her gratitude or love Stanley Walden Levin has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca/London, Deutsche Gram- Ballet, the chamber symphony After Auschwitz for these are work “models” (as are the maquettes used by mophon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Musica Viva under Sydney Hodkinson (which Walden sculptors and architects) that focus on elements of the Philips and Sony Classical. Robert Levin’s active career as a chamber musician includes a long association with the also conducted with the Potsdam Philharmonic, and the two-piano sonic world … in the nineteenth century they violist Kim Kashkashian. He appears frequently with his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, in duo recitals and with Budapest Chamber Symphony in Cividale). Circus is would have been called “Etudes”. orchestra. After more than a quarter century as an artist faculty member at the Sarasota Music Festival he succeeded recorded on Lousiville Records under Jorge Mester, and Fanfare deals with the massed sonorities available Paul Wolfe as Artistic Director in 2007. He is President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition was also played by the Chicago Symphony under Seizi with 176 keys. (Leipzig, Germany), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Ozawa and in Cleveland, under Louis Lane. He has Song is about solo and accompaniment. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. written chamber and solo works for Jan DeGaetani Timbre explores the possibilities of playing on the

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Stanley Walden (b. 1932) keys and the strings and various pedalings. and, since art is always a public act (no matter what the Ya-Fei Chuang Maquettes • Horn Trio • Five Similes • Sh’mah Air, in both senses, i.e. as “tune” and “texture”. ars gratia artis crew may maintain), the dedication (Before this piece starts, the players are directed to serves the purpose that publishing banns does for the Prizewinner in the Cologne International Piano Competition at the age of eighteen, (Some Changes/Albany Records), Reri Grist, Robert imagine four bars of an unplayed jazz waltz [notated in engaged. A set of piano miniatures offered the the pianist Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television in her native Taiwan at the Levin, Gilbert Kalish, Joel Krosnick and Carole Cowan. their parts for bass and drums] which the audience never possibility of paying several “attentions” in the same age of eight and gave her first public recital when she was nine At ten she won first Among Walden’s many musical-theater works are hears). piece. The Similes are not meant as portraits – we are all prize in the nationally televised Genius vs. Genius Competition and at eleven took the operas Liebster Vater for the Bremen Stadtheater Por Chucho; Chucho Valdes is an extraordinary much more complicated than that – but allusions are first prize at the Taiwan National Competition. She went on to study at the Freiburg (also in Berlin, Weimar and New York), Bachs Letzte Cuban piano virtuoso and composer, founder of the appropriate. Musikhochschule with Rosa Sabater and Robert Levin, with awards including the Oper (Erfurt) and Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights group Irakera. Cuban music and much of the entire 1. Like a sigh… (Terry Gittleman); 2. Like bullets... Freiburg Mendelssohn Prize. She concluded her German studies with Pavel Gililov at (Cologne and New York) and the musicals Oh! Latin-American music world would be inconceivable (Zelda Dolgin); 3. Like memory… (Stephen Sell); the Cologne Musikhochschule. In 1993 she moved to the United States, taking a Calcutta! (with Jacques Levy and The Open Window), without the Valdes family. 4. Like a shadow… (Tony and Sandy Black); 5. Like a graduate diploma at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Russell Sherman. performed thoughout the world, Miami Lights (Miami, Sh’mah, for violin and cello, is based on material smile… (Jan DeGaetani). Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared at festivals in Europe and the United States and Palo Alto), Back Country (Boston), Café Mitte (with originally composed for the Burg Theater (Vienna) The Trio for horn, violin and piano was written at appeared in major concert halls as a soloist and in collaboration with distinguished Volker Ludwig, Grips Theater Berlin [Sony Records]), production of George Tabori’s Mein Kampf.The the request of the pianist Gilbert Kalish. Only after I had colleagues in chamber music and duo recitals. Die Bettleroper (Berlin). Also Endangered Species material is developed from three sources of traditional started the first movement (Dolente) did I realize that I (Martha Clarke, BAM), The Serpent and Mutation Show Jewish melodies. 1. The Shmah yisroel, one of the oldest was writing out of a controlled sadness and rage about (The Open Theater) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle and most central of the Hebrew texts: ”Hear, O Israel, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 – the destruction of the (Arena Theater, Washington, D.C.). the Lord our God, the Lord is One!” (it is important to Twin Towers in New York. At the beginning of the Alongside his activity as composer and conductor, think of the title Sh’mah as being in the imperative). 2. movement I ask both the violin and the horn to employ Stanley Walden was born in Brooklyn, New York, in Walden has participated as actor and director in over Eli, Eli (also appearing as the last words of Christ on the “practice mutes”, those devices that reduce the sound to 1932. A graduate of Queens College, he studied fifty stage productions in the United States and Europe, cross) and 3. T’keeyaw, the text intoned along with the an almost inaudible level (hence their being used to Robert Levin composition privately with Ben Weber, a student of many with the director George Tabori. Among his film blown shofar (ram’s horn) for the New Year. “practice” in semi-public spaces). This choked-off Schoenberg. As a clarinetist he performed with the New scores are Desperado City (Camera d’or, Cannes) and Similes, five miniatures for solo piano. 1989 was sound represents for me the almost inchoate feelings Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Australia York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Frohes Fest (Mannheim Film Prize). Together with his not a good year for my circle: we lost six of those – that well up when I think of that awful act and, as I said, and in Asia. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and many others. He wife Barbara he published the standard instructional text relatives, friends, colleagues – who help to define who I was surprised when they made themseles manifest. Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and was a faculty member at the Juilliard School, The State Life Upon The Wicked Stage. and where we are. Having spent the first six months in Passamezzo is an old dance form, better known in the Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, University at Purchase, Sarah Lawrence College and Berlin, I felt more free-floating than usual, and the many French form Passepied. Salsa and Trio is an obvious Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Joseph guest composer at the Eastman School, S.M.U. and Composer’s Notes deaths affected me deeply. Whenever I finish a piece play on the classical form of Minuet and Trio. Battaglia Silverstein. On period pianos he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, Yale. He was musical assistant to Martha Graham, (and sometimes before I begin) I am beset with the need is my venting of my rage at the terrorists. I do not know the English Baroque Soloists, the Handel & Haydn Society, the London Classical Jerome Robbins and Jose Limon. In 1990 he founded Maquettes, for two pianos, was a commission from to dedicate it – sometimes in memoriam - because, as if it is appropriate for a composer to allow his emotions Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre the Department of Musical Theater at the Berlin Robert Levin and his wife, Ya Fei. Although at least a Arthur Miller put it: “Attention must be paid”. to so intrude into his music, but vide Picasso with Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Universität der Künste, which he led until 2003. Among generation older than he, I, as many of my colleagues, Dedications, aside from those obeisant to a patron, are Guernica. Sir Charles Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan, and Sir Roger Norrington. Renowned for his commissions are Invisible Cities for the Philadelphia had always been in awe of his musicianship and one of the few avenues available to the creative artist in his improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf, Weewis for the Joffrey abilities. I chose Maquettes as a title because, for me, which publicly to proclaim his or her gratitude or love Stanley Walden Levin has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca/London, Deutsche Gram- Ballet, the chamber symphony After Auschwitz for these are work “models” (as are the maquettes used by mophon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Musica Viva under Sydney Hodkinson (which Walden sculptors and architects) that focus on elements of the Philips and Sony Classical. Robert Levin’s active career as a chamber musician includes a long association with the also conducted with the Potsdam Philharmonic, and the two-piano sonic world … in the nineteenth century they violist Kim Kashkashian. He appears frequently with his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, in duo recitals and with Budapest Chamber Symphony in Cividale). Circus is would have been called “Etudes”. orchestra. After more than a quarter century as an artist faculty member at the Sarasota Music Festival he succeeded recorded on Lousiville Records under Jorge Mester, and Fanfare deals with the massed sonorities available Paul Wolfe as Artistic Director in 2007. He is President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition was also played by the Chicago Symphony under Seizi with 176 keys. (Leipzig, Germany), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Ozawa and in Cleveland, under Louis Lane. He has Song is about solo and accompaniment. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. written chamber and solo works for Jan DeGaetani Timbre explores the possibilities of playing on the

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Julia-Maria Kretz Bernhard Krug AMERICAN CLASSICS Julia-Maria Kretz began her musical studies in 1989 at the age of nine Bernhard Krug was born in 1967. He played the piano from the age of with Marianne Boettcher at the Julius Stern Institute of the University six and at sixteen had his first horn lessons as a student of Anton of the Arts in Berlin. She then studied with Thomas Brandis at the Hammer. He continued his studies with Gerd Seifert at the Berlin Berlin University of the Arts and with Josef Suk in Prague. With her College of Arts, and later at the Orchestra College of the Berlin Stanley piano trio, the Julius Stern Trio, formed in 1996, she studied with Philharmonic Orchestra. He graduated with distinction, and was Menahem Pressler, Niklas Schmidt, György Sebök and Georg Sava. scholar of the Foundation for Higher Studies of the German People. She was winner of the Jugend musiziert Competition and is a fellow of Since 1991 he has been a member and since 1992 first horn of the WALDEN the German National Scholarship Foundation and of PE Friends for Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. Since 1999 he has also been a Music Scholars. She received the Classic Prize from WDR and the member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He has appeared as a Rauhe Prize from Hamburg in 2005. She is also first-prize winner of soloist with renowned orchestras playing horn concerts by Mozart, the Marie Luise Imbusch Competition, while her piano trio received Haydn, Glière, Strauss, Telemann and Weber. As a chamber musician Maquettes for Two Pianos the WDR Classic Prize and first prize of the 2004 Florence Premio Vittorio Gui, the Trio di Trieste in Trieste he has toured Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, Austria, Spain and (2005), and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition in Berlin (2005). As a soloist she has appeared with the the United States in different ensembles, including the Leipzig Berlin and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestras, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, and the Bad Reichenhall Gewandhaus Oktett, of which he is a founding member. Bernhard Krug teaches at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Sh’mah • Five Similes • Horn Trio Philharmonic Orchestra. She also appears with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of which she has been a member University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and gives master-courses at universities in Germany and Japan. More since 2001 and, working with Claudio Abbado, of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. Julia-Maria Kretz information available at: www.musarc.de performs on a violin by Joseph Nicola Gagliano, Naples, ca. 1791. Spectrum Concerts Berlin Photographs by Omar Ingerslev and Eckhard Joite Jens Peter Maintz

Jens Peter Maintz studied with David Geringas and attended master-classes by Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenshikov and Siegfried Palm. He won first prize at the Munich Competition in 1994, and in 1995 became principal cellist of the Berlin Other CDs by Spectrum Concerts Berlin on Naxos: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. He became professor of cello at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2004. He is also a member of the Trio Fontenay. As a soloist and 8.557153 Dohnányi: Serenade for String Trio • Sextet chamber musician, Jens Peter Maintz has given concerts throughout Europe and in 8.559173 Harbison: Four Songs of Solitude • Variations • Twilight Music the Americas, appearing with distinguished conductors and colleagues. In December 8.559199 Helps: Shall We Dance • Piano Quartet • Postlude • Nocturne • The Darkened Valley (Ireland) 2003 he was soloist for the first German performance of Richard Danielpour’s Cello 8.559282 Toch Vol. 1: Tanz-Suite • Cello Concerto Concerto No. 1 at the Berlin Philharmonic, and at Claudio Abbado’s invitation, has 8.559324 Toch Vol. 2: Impromptus for Solo Cello • Sonata for Violin and Piano been the principal cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. In the Piano Quintet • Burlesken for Solo Piano 2006–2007 season he performed the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski and the Brahms Double Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher. His first CD with Sony Classical was awarded the Echo prize. He has also recorded the Isang Yun Cello Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin for Capriccio. Jens Peter Maintz performs on a cello by Vincenzo Ruggeri, 1696, and on a cello by Wolfgang Schnabl, 2005. More information is available at www.krautheim-concepts.de A co-production with Kulturradio from rbb

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Julia-Maria Kretz Bernhard Krug AMERICAN CLASSICS Julia-Maria Kretz began her musical studies in 1989 at the age of nine Bernhard Krug was born in 1967. He played the piano from the age of with Marianne Boettcher at the Julius Stern Institute of the University six and at sixteen had his first horn lessons as a student of Anton of the Arts in Berlin. She then studied with Thomas Brandis at the Hammer. He continued his studies with Gerd Seifert at the Berlin Berlin University of the Arts and with Josef Suk in Prague. With her College of Arts, and later at the Orchestra College of the Berlin Stanley piano trio, the Julius Stern Trio, formed in 1996, she studied with Philharmonic Orchestra. He graduated with distinction, and was Menahem Pressler, Niklas Schmidt, György Sebök and Georg Sava. scholar of the Foundation for Higher Studies of the German People. She was winner of the Jugend musiziert Competition and is a fellow of Since 1991 he has been a member and since 1992 first horn of the WALDEN the German National Scholarship Foundation and of PE Friends for Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. Since 1999 he has also been a Music Scholars. She received the Classic Prize from WDR and the member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He has appeared as a Rauhe Prize from Hamburg in 2005. She is also first-prize winner of soloist with renowned orchestras playing horn concerts by Mozart, the Marie Luise Imbusch Competition, while her piano trio received Haydn, Glière, Strauss, Telemann and Weber. As a chamber musician Maquettes for Two Pianos the WDR Classic Prize and first prize of the 2004 Florence Premio Vittorio Gui, the Trio di Trieste in Trieste he has toured Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, Austria, Spain and (2005), and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition in Berlin (2005). As a soloist she has appeared with the the United States in different ensembles, including the Leipzig Berlin and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestras, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, and the Bad Reichenhall Gewandhaus Oktett, of which he is a founding member. Bernhard Krug teaches at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Sh’mah • Five Similes • Horn Trio Philharmonic Orchestra. She also appears with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of which she has been a member University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and gives master-courses at universities in Germany and Japan. More since 2001 and, working with Claudio Abbado, of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. Julia-Maria Kretz information available at: www.musarc.de performs on a violin by Joseph Nicola Gagliano, Naples, ca. 1791. Spectrum Concerts Berlin Photographs by Omar Ingerslev and Eckhard Joite Jens Peter Maintz

Jens Peter Maintz studied with David Geringas and attended master-classes by Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenshikov and Siegfried Palm. He won first prize at the Munich Competition in 1994, and in 1995 became principal cellist of the Berlin Other CDs by Spectrum Concerts Berlin on Naxos: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. He became professor of cello at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2004. He is also a member of the Trio Fontenay. As a soloist and 8.557153 Dohnányi: Serenade for String Trio • Sextet chamber musician, Jens Peter Maintz has given concerts throughout Europe and in 8.559173 Harbison: Four Songs of Solitude • Variations • Twilight Music the Americas, appearing with distinguished conductors and colleagues. In December 8.559199 Helps: Shall We Dance • Piano Quartet • Postlude • Nocturne • The Darkened Valley (Ireland) 2003 he was soloist for the first German performance of Richard Danielpour’s Cello 8.559282 Toch Vol. 1: Tanz-Suite • Cello Concerto Concerto No. 1 at the Berlin Philharmonic, and at Claudio Abbado’s invitation, has 8.559324 Toch Vol. 2: Impromptus for Solo Cello • Sonata for Violin and Piano been the principal cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. In the Piano Quintet • Burlesken for Solo Piano 2006–2007 season he performed the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski and the Brahms Double Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher. His first CD with Sony Classical was awarded the Echo prize. He has also recorded the Isang Yun Cello Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin for Capriccio. Jens Peter Maintz performs on a cello by Vincenzo Ruggeri, 1696, and on a cello by Wolfgang Schnabl, 2005. More information is available at www.krautheim-concepts.de A co-production with Kulturradio from rbb

8.559355 5 6 8.559355 CMYK NAXOS Playing Stanley Time: WALDEN 53:52 (b . 1932) * Disc made in Canada. Printed and assembled USA. this compact disc prohibited. reserved. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of All rights in this sound recording, artwork, texts and translations Maquettes for Two Pianos (2001) 13:39 8.559355 1 Fanfare 2:08 AMERICAN CLASSICS 2 Song 2:43 3 Timbre 2:39 A native of Brooklyn, New York, the 4 Air 1:40 composer, clarinetist, conductor, actor, 5 Por Chucho 4:28 film director and educator Stanley 6 Walden has written orchestral, Sh’mah: Duo for Violin chamber and solo works, as well as and Cello (2002) 11:37 operas and musicals including Oh! WALDEN: Five Similes for Piano (1989) * 9:35 Calcutta! This disc of chamber and 7 Like a sigh 2:34 instrumental works features Maquettes 8 Like bullets 0:56 or “models” for two pianos, the five & 9 Like memory 1:33

miniatures for solo piano Similes, 0 Like a shadow 2:17 2008 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Sh’mah for violin and cello, developed ! Like a smile 2:14 from sources of traditional Jewish Music Chamber Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano (2003) 19:02 music, and the Horn Trio, written “out @ Dolente 5:06 of a controlled sadness and rage at the # Passamezzo 4:12 events of Sept. 11, 2001”. Walden’s $ Chamber Music Salsa and Trio 3:39 affiliation with Spectrum Concerts % Battaglia 6:04 Berlin began in 1997. WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDINGS Spectrum Concerts Berlin Ya-Fei Chuang, Piano • Robert Levin, Piano * Julia-Maria Kretz, Violin • Jens Peter Maintz, Cello WALDEN: WALDEN: Bernhard Krug, Horn www.spectrumconcerts.com Frank S. Dodge, Founder and Artistic Director This disc has been generously supported by DDD the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., the University of Arts Berlin (UdK), and A co-production with Kulturradio from rbb Spectrum Concerts in Berlin and USA, Inc. Recorded on 1st and 2nd March, 2007 (tracks 1-5 and 7-15), at the Kammermusiksaal Philharmonie Berlin, and on www.naxos.com 8.559355 8.559355 29th January, 2008 (track 6), at the Grosser Sendersaal of rbb Executive Producer: Cornelia Schönberg Recording Director and Editor: Christoph Franke Engineer: Kaspar Wollheim • Publisher: Colophon Music Cover image: Frank S. Dodge NAXOS