2289AV-Zack_bklt v5 06/09/2013 14:24 Page 1 CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN MAGENTA Customer AVIE YELLOW Catalogue No. 2289 AV BLACK Job Title: Herwig Zack – Made in Germany Page Nos. Herwig Zack on AVIE Records Made in Germany Works for Solo Violin Essentials 4 Strings Only J.S. Bach · Bartók · Kreisler J.S. Bach · Ben-Haim J.S. Bach • Skalkottas · Ysaÿe Berio · Bloch AV2155 AV2189 Hindemith • Stahmer • Reger • Herwig Zack Catoire · Ravel Works for Violin and Piano AV2143 AV2289 2289AV-Zack_bklt v5 06/09/2013 14:24 Page 2 CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN MAGENTA Customer AVIE YELLOW Catalogue No. 2289 AV BLACK Job Title: Herwig Zack – Made in Germany Page Nos. Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata / Sonate / Sonate, Op. 31/2 (1685 –1750) £ I. Leicht bewegte Viertel 2:17 Sonata No. 1 · Sonate Nr. 1 · Sonate No 1, BWV 1001 („Es ist so schönes Wetter draußen…“) in G minor · in g-Moll · en Sol mineur $ II. Ruhig bewegte Achtel 3:06 % III. Gemächliche Viertel 1:19 1 I. Adagio 4:20 ^ IV. Fünf Variationen 4:52 2 II. Fuga: Allegro 5:36 über das Lied „Komm lieber Mai“ Slight differences in the sound of the recording of the various pieces are intended and supposed to 3 III. Siciliana 3:50 von Mozart: Leicht bewegt underline the specific character of the particular composition. 4 IV. Presto 3:49 Leichte Unterschiede des Klangbildes bei verschiedenen Werken sind beabsichtigt und sollen den Prelude and Fragment · Präludium und Fragment spezifischen Charakter der jeweiligen Komposition unterstreichen. Prélude et Fragment Paul Hindemith (1895 –1963) Dans l’enregistrement des différentes pièces, on remarquera de légères différences & I. Präludium (Solosonate, I. Satz): Presto (Halbe) 1:03 de prise de son destinées à souligner le caractère spécifique de chaque composition. Complete works for Solo Violin * II. Fragment 1:21 Recorded in / Aufnahme in / Enregistrement réalisé à Sonata / Sonate / Sonate, Op. 31/1 Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (b.1941) Würzburg, Kammermusiksaal der Hochschule für Musik, May 30th, 2012, January 2nd and March 25th, 2013 30.05. 2012, 02.01. und 25.03.2013 5 I. Sehr lebhafte Achtel 1:43 ( Gerettete Blätter 9:44 30. V. 2012, 02. I. et 25. III. 2013 6 II. Sehr langsame Viertel 4:22 (2011/13, dedicated to Herwig Zack) 7 III. Sehr lebhafte Viertel 2:12 Nel tempo grave – Come una chimera fugitiva My special thanks go to the ‘Hochschule für Musik Würzburg’ for allowing the use of the Chamber Music Hall. 8 IV. Intermezzo, Lied: Ruhig bewegte Achtel 2:34 (Presto) – Lento e pensieroso Mein besonderer Dank gilt der Hochschule für Musik Würzburg für die Überlassung des Kammermusiksaales. 9 V. Prestissimo 1:56 Je remercie tout particulièrement la Haute Ecole de Musique de Wurzbourg pour L’autorisation d’enregistrer Max Reger (1873 –1916) dans sa salle de musique de chambre. Sonata · Sonate · Sonate, Op. 11/6 in G minor · in g-Moll · en Sol mineur ) Chaconne, Op. 117/4 10:42 Recording Engineer / Tonmeister / Ingénieur du son: Jürgen Rummel Photographs of Herwig Zack / Bilder / Photos: in G minor · in g-Moll · en Sol mineur Andreas Ebmer, Studio Launer, Rottendorf English Translations: Richard Evidon 0 I. Mäßig schnell 3:20 Traductions françaises: Michel Roubinet ! II. Siziliano: Mäßig bewegt 5:48 Total time: 79:28 ൿ 2013 Herwig Zack @ III. Finale: Lebhaft 5:26 Ꭿ 2013 Herwig Zack www.herwigzack.de Herwig Zack violin · Violine · violon Marketed by Avie Records www.avierecords.com 2 3 2289AV-Zack_bklt v5 06/09/2013 14:24 Page 3 CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN MAGENTA Customer AVIE YELLOW Catalogue No. 2289 AV BLACK Job Title: Herwig Zack – Made in Germany Page Nos. Made in Germany It opens with a richly embellished Adagio , a fine example of elegance, later, in the Romantic period, harmonic heavy for the listener and somewhat unwieldy for the the master’s highly sophisticated art of ornamentation, on abundance and voluminous richness - all difficult qualities performer. Reger’s music is frequently uncomfortable to Like its predecessors “Essentials“ (AV2155) and “4 Strings whose meticulously precise notation a contemporary to convey on a single violin. Bach’s sonatas and partitas play, quite demanding both technically and musically, yet it Only” (AV2189), the album “Made in Germany” has an remarked in 1737: “ All manners, all small ornaments and were considered old-fashioned and academic, a fine is less spectacular in effect than e. g. the solo sonatas of internal programme, a kind of thread running through it everything associated with the method of playing he exercise for violinists but without any enduring musical Ysaÿe. None of this begins to touch on the musical that, in one way or another, connects the recital’s individual expresses with real notes.” The fugue that follows displays a significance. Attempts by great composers like substance, where in fact there is plenty to discover. works and composers. The obvious geographical aspect to single-mindedness and a taut sense of drama that are Mendelssohn or Schumann to popularize them by adding which the title ironically alludes – all this music was written exceptional even in comparison with the no less masterly piano accompaniments were doomed to failure. During the Reger wrote no fewer than eleven sonatas and two by German composers; all of it is played by a German sister works in A minor and C major. The dramatic build-up era of the great Romantic virtuosos, Paganini, Ernst, collections of preludes and fugues (Opp. 117 and 131a) violinist – is neat enough but rather trivial. Max Reger is carried out uncompromisingly and with utmost logical Wieniawski and others wrote showpieces for solo violin which include altogether 14 individual works for solo violin. refers explicitly to Bach as a model in his works for solo consistency. A greater contrast than the one between the (mostly for their own use), often in the form of variations on In addition, another prelude and fugue and a single prelude violin, while Hindemith in turn references Reger and, fugue and the following gently dancelike and immensely popular opera melodies and almost exclusively aimed at were posthumously published. Taken as a whole they naturally, Bach. Klaus Stahmer’s Gerettete Blätter was peaceful Siciliana can hardly be imagined. The final Presto displaying the interpreter’s hair-raising technical abilities. It represent a mighty act of homage to his revered Bach. All written for me, so there the individual performer is the takes up the Fugue’s dramatic element, providing an was not until the final phase of late Romanticism - around the works were dedicated to leading violinists of Reger’s connecting element. elegantly virtuosic conclusion to the sonata. the turn of the 20th century – that composers rediscovered time: Adolf Busch, Henri Marteau and, in the case of the Baroque features and forms and the picture began to Chaconne, Op. 117 No. 4, Gustav Havemann, who was a This time the programme’s point of departure is Bach’s Within the last thirty years the perception and interpretation change. friend of the composer. Reger wrote the Chaconne, the forth Sonata 1ma à Violino Solo senza Basso BWV 1001 in G of Baroque music has changed significantly owing to of his eight Preludes and Fugues Op. 117, in 1910. Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his six Sonatas advances in historical performance practice. By studying A new golden age for the solo violin was dawning in 1900 Although it is no less than his third work in this form, this and Partitas BWV 1001 – 1006, “Sei Solo à Violino senza the contemporary treatises, every artist may decide on his when Max Reger introduced his four sonatas, Op. 42, Chaconne is the only one that stands on its own, the others Basso accompagnato” , during his time in Köthen as own which information and practical instructions he or she which he later complemented with a large number of other being integral parts of the Solo Sonatas Op. 42 No. 2 and Hofkapellmeister , the court’s director of music. The considers essential and reasonably adaptable to works in the same medium, all clearly modeled on Bach. Op. 91 No. 7. The genre of the Chaconne derives from a collection is unrivalled as the summit of composition for performance on a modern violin played with a modern bow. Reger, who was born near Bayreuth in 1873 and died in 16th-century dance form, apparently first appearing in solo violin. Three sonatas in the early sonata da chiesa form Of primary importance to me is, among other things, a Leipzig in 1916, was – like Hindemith – a personality of Spain, and consists of variations in 3/4 time over a four- to – i.e. having the movement sequence of slow, (moderately) consistent, variable and subtle articulation, which I epochal importance, although the reception of his works has eight-bar bass or harmonic pattern. The undisputed crown fast and mostly polyphonic, slow and lyrical, fast or very fast consider crucial for lending the requisite liveliness and varied considerably over the years and even today they are of the genre is Bach’s Ciaccona from the Partita in D minor, and virtuosic - are paired with three partitas (in Bach’s time a elegance to the music, especially to the fast movements. seldom accorded the attention and esteem they deserve BWV 1004 (see above). Later composers such as Brahms, synonym for suites), which display greater formal variety (another parallel with Hindemith). The reasons for this are Henze, Absil and Hiroshi Hara have tackled the form, all than the comparatively strict sonatas. With the advent of the Classical period audiences and manifold.