572019 bk Saint-Lubin US 3/3/09 11:09 AM Page 5 Anastasia Khitruk Elizaveta Kopelman Grammy nominated violinist Anastasia Khitruk was born in Elizaveta Kopelman was born into a family of musicians in Moscow into a musical and artistic family. After emigrating to Moscow, where she began her studies at the Central Music School the United States, she attended Mannes and the Juilliard with Dina Parachina. After moving to England, she continued her School, studying with Dora Schwartzberg, Zinaida Gilels and studies with Arnaldo Cohen at the Royal Northern College in Dorothy DeLay. After her orchestral de´but at the age of eight, Manchester, where she won numerous awards, including the Le´on de she went on to perform with orchestras and in recital Young Concert Artists Trust Competition in London. Since then, throughout Europe and the United States. A laureate of several she has appeared as a soloist throughout the United Kingdom, international competitions, including the Premio Paganini, she Europe, the United States, and South America, with appearances at SAINT- has appeared under the baton of conductors such as Hannu the Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Lintu, Claude Bardon, Saulis Sondeckis, Dmitry Yablonsky, Festival Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Bridgewater Hall. She has Mats Liljefors, and Constantine Orbelian. Her chamber music performed with such orchestras as the Iceland Symphony, London LUBIN career includes collaborations with pianists David Korevaar Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the New York and Valery Afanassiev, cellists Boris Andrianov and Sergey Chamber Symphony. Her active chamber music career includes Antonov, and violinists Mark Peskanov and Alexandre collaborations with the Leopold String Trio, Ying Quartet, Jupiter Brussilovsky. A champion of contemporary music, she has Chamber Players, and her father, violinist Mikhail Kopelman. As Fantaisie sur un given premières of works by Yves Prin, Philippe Hersant, part of a violin/piano duo with Anastasia Khitruk, she has recently David Winkler and Michael Colina. As part of a violin/piano appeared at the Carnegie/Weill Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, the thème de Lucia di duo with Elizaveta Kopelman, she has recently appeared at the Dubai Arts Centre and the Geneva Conservatoire. Carnegie/Weill Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Dubai Arts Centre and the Geneva Conservatoire. Lammermoor Grand Duo Concertant Photo: Geers, Gross Photo: Eisaku Tokuyama Two Salon Pieces Adagio religioso Anastasia Khitruk, Violin Elizaveta Kopelman, Piano 8.572019 5 6 8.572019 572019 bk Saint-Lubin US 3/3/09 11:09 AM Page 2 Le´ on de Saint-Lubin (1805-1850) Saint-Lubin left behind a wide variety of works, of sound – shed your bitter tears”) is particularly well- ten months after the huge triumph of the same Two Salon Pieces. Two Nocturnes in Andante form, Virtuoso Works for Violin which only a small number, about fifty, were published. known to every opera-lover. The sextet “Chi mi frena in composer’s La Muette de Portici. The opera is light and No. 1 followed by a Rondino. No. 2 followed by a His operas, symphonies and five violin concertos tal momento” (“What restrains me at this moment?”), sits within the characteristic French tradition of the the Polonaise, Op. 47, for violin and piano, with its Le´on de Saint-Lubin, originally Napoléon-Antoine- opening of the imperial and royal private theatre in remain unpublished. He himself considered his most which Saint-Lubin chose as the theme for his Fantasy, is ope´ra-comique. The piece was set not in Paris, but in somewhat complicated title, really consists of four Eugène-Le´on de Saint-Lubin, was born on 5th July 1805 Josephstadt.” Later the sheet of music was in the important work to be his Octet, Op. 33, written for the the climax of the second act. Here Edgardo, Lucia’s Vienna. On the strength of the melodic elegance of the separate pieces which Saint-Lubin brought together into in Turin, the son of an officer who emigrated to Italy possession of the Austrian National Library in Vienna delightful combination of piano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, lover, curses her for her supposed infidelity, after he has music it is not surprising that several extracts became two discrete numbers. The closing Polonaise is after the French Revolution and who was active as a and bore the shelf-mark Sm 3154. Unfortunately it went French horn, viola, cello and double-bass. It was learned that she will marry someone else. He does not very popular, especially the Tyrolean Montagnard ou particularly effective and direct and is attractive on language teacher in Italy. Little is known about his life. missing during the Second World War. In Willy Hess’s published in 1835 by Anton Diabelli in Vienna. An know that she has been forced into doing so. Saint- berger (Montagnard or shepherd) “Is der Bua frisch und account of its concise melodic characteristics. Saint- No recent dictionaries of music contain his name and no index of Beethoven’s works it bears the number 296. unknown friend wrote about the piece in a short Lubin’s work appeared in 1844 and in its mere 64 bars g’sund” (“Is Bua happy and healthy”) and the canonic Lubin dedicated the pieces to the Count of music academic has researched his biography. It can be One of the few contemporaries to mention Saint-Lubin biography of Saint-Lubin which appeared on 17th exploits all the possibilities of the violin: complicated trio “Où trouver le bonheur” (“Where to find Westmoreland, British ambassador to the Prussian court gathered from earlier literature that in 1809 the boy is Julius Benedict, a pupil of Carl Maria von Weber. He February 1833 in the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische multiple-stopping, harmonics, various tremolo effects, happiness“). Soon afterwards, when Auber celebrated in Berlin. moved with his family to Hamburg, where his musical met Saint-Lubin in October 1823, shortly before the Zeitung. Today Saint-Lubin is almost completely dashing arpeggios across all four strings and the his greatest success with the robber-opera Fra Diavolo education began. At first he was taught to play the harp première of Weber’s opera Euryanthe, on a visit as a forgotten, although his compositions were highly simultaneous use of arco (bowed) and pizzicato (1830), La Fiance´e fell into obscurity – unjustly so, as Klaus Martin Kopitz and later the violin, which became his principal regular customer to the legendary music shop of thought of in his time and were distinguished by great (plucked) playing. It is clear that Saint-Lubin wrote the Saint-Lubin’s inventive paraphrase demonstrates. The instrument. He first appeared before the public at the Sigmund Anton Steiner and Tobias Haslinger at 572 originality and creative power. These qualities apply piece for himself to play. It is an impressive pot-pourri on themes from favourite operas was a English translation: David Stevens age of nine, performing a violin concerto and winning Paternostergassel. Presumably he got to know especially to the works for solo violin. The great demonstration of his enormous ability as a violinist. The completely respectable genre in the nineteenth century great approval. In 1817 he made guest appearances in Beethoven here, as well as Schubert who, likewise, was Hungarian violinist Jenö Hubay (1858–1937) re-edited Original Theme and Study by S. Thalberg, transcribed and reached its peak in the highly virtuosic operatic Berlin and Dresden. It was in Dresden that he had also often to be found in Steiner’s shop. Saint-Lubin some of these and also performed them, although for solo violin, Op. 45(a), is simply an arrangement for paraphrases of Franz Liszt. lessons with the violinist Giovanni Battista Polledro, the also frequented the houses of the music-loving Viennese without having been able to get them accepted with any solo violin of a piano study by Sigismund Thalberg, one same Polledro with whom Beethoven gave a concert in aristocracy and appeared there in private concerts. regularity into the concert repertoire. For virtuoso of the most successful pianists and composers of his the summer of 1812 in Karlsbad. In 1818 Saint-Lubin Together with Beethoven’s friend Karl Holz he was a violinists these works represent a welcome addition to time. The great skill with which Saint-Lubin went to Frankfurt-on-Main and became a pupil of the regular visitor of the lawyer and friend of Schubert, the relatively limited repertoire of music for solo violin. sympathetically turns the piano work into a piece for famous violinist and composer Louis Spohr. After that Ignaz von Sonnleithner, in whose house string quartets, The Grand Duo Concertant in the form of a Sonata, solo violin and in the process, as in the previous piece, he travelled around Germany and in the autumn of 1820 as well as orchestral works, were performed. Op. 49, for violin and piano, is a four-movement work uses every possible device of violin technique, makes it made his Vienna de´but playing a violin concerto by his In 1823 Saint-Lubin became the leader and, in that is an important contribution to the genre of the ultimately a genuine work for solo violin. Of the works teacher Spohr. For ten years the musical capital of 1827, second director of music at the Josephstadt violin sonata. It was published in 1847 by the publishing of this forgotten composer included here it is surely one Austria became his home; here he also received Theatre, but then he withdrew completely from public house Schuberth, which had its headquarters in of the most impressive and, what is more, is a intensive lessons in composition and, at an early age, view.