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Sarasate
Julia Fischer, violin and Milina Chernyavska, piano
Available at Arkivmusic.com

The German violinist Julia Fischer is back touring and recording after a hiatus the stretched over a year. The 30-year-old musician has just released an album of showpieces by Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908), works whose technical demands are familiar to many violinists, but whose temperament is harder to grasp. Violinists sometimes approach these pieces with a cloying, even condescending air, as if to suggest that the music is mere encore material. Fischer’s affinity for the composer seems utterly sincere, however. She has never been a performer who likes to dabble in pop culture yet the four sets of Spanish Dances here were rooted in just that, and are quite entertaining to boot. To wrap the collection, Fisher whips up a frenzy in Zigunderweisen.

 

Brahms Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
London Philharmonic
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
LPO
Available at Arkivmusic.com

When faced with a new recording such as this, one’s mind inevitably returns to the question: does the world need another version of Brahms’s symphonies? Well, we have nothing to add to that debate at the moment other than to say that the LPO under Vladimir Jurowski offers plenty to admire in their new album, recorded live at the Southbank Center in 2010 and 2011. This set, which fills out a complete cycle, seems to have an autumnal, if somewhat old-school quality, featuring broad tempos, healthy string portamento and dusky woodwinds. A worthy addition to the recorded Brahms canon.

 

Sojourn: The Very Best of Xuefei Yang
Xuefei Yang, guitar
Warner Classics
Available at Arkivmusic.com

Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang was a longtime EMI artist and now appears to be making the transition to Warner Classics in the wake of last year’s takeover by the label. This collection gathers her efforts on EMI to date, mixing Baroque music, Chinese folk arrangements and some Spanish classical guitar favorites. Yang wields a seven-string guitar for two Bach pieces – the Prelude BWV 846 and the Air on a G String – capturing the particularly rich bass lines in these pieces. Her transcription of The Butterfly Lovers Concerto, originally for violin and orchestra is nicely effective and pieces by Albeniz, Tarrega and Rodrigo have plenty of sizzle. Below, watch a highlight from Yang’s Café Concert at WQXR.

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House of Dreams (CD & DVD)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Tafelmusik media

The Canadian period instrument ensemble Tafelmusik has previously captured our attention with the Galileo Project, a unique multimedia project that wove together Baroque music with images from the Hubble telescope and writings by important scientific figures. The ensemble returns with another visually-driven project, built around five historic houses in five European cities – London, Paris, Delft, Venice and Leipzig – where the music of Bach, Handel, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and others was played.

These houses contained a wealth of visual art, including paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto, and Watteau, and this is where the visual imagery comes in. The documentary film presents a guided trip through European art and architecture blended with an international assortment of music: two numbers from Handel’s Theodora, several movements from Vivaldi concertos, three instrumental pieces by Purcell, Marin Marais’s Suite from Alcyone, three Bach transcriptions and finally, the Overture to Telemann’s Wassermusik. All of the music was memorized for the DVD performance and there’s an audio CD as well. 

Tafelmusik is to perform this program at Carnegie Hall on March 17, part of a farewell tour by the group’s music director and violinist, Jeanne Lamon. See an excerpt from the DVD at the bottom of this page.

Schubert Impromptus and Sonata, D. 960
Rudolf Buchbinder
Sony
Available at Arkivmusic.com

Rudolf Buchbinder’s latest Schubert album, released last September, features repertoire that he previously recorded in the studio. But this was recorded live at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna and the presence of an audience seems to have inspired this veteran Austrian pianist to more expressive freedom and rhetorical license. In the famous B-flat Sonata, D. 960 he plays with power and resonance but also takes time to linger over details and consider odd harmonic twists. The Four Impromptus Op. 90 are equally poetic but with a penchant for swagger when the mood calls for it. Given that Buchbinder doesn't have quite the name recognition in the U.S. that he has in Europe, this recording serves as a fine introduction to his music-making.

 

Stanislaw Moniuszko: Overtures
Warsaw Philharmonic, Antoni Wit, conductor
Naxos

In Poland, Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872), is a respected national composer, known for his vibrant use of color and Slavic folk sources. Yet most everywhere else, his music is largely forgotten. The Warsaw Philharmonic presents 10 of his overtures including that to his best-known work, the Overture to Halka (The Fairytale, which also happened to be the first important Polish opera). Many are quite zesty and full of charm, a reminder that there’s always new music to be discovered beyond the core Western canon.

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1. Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka, a small town in the Eastern Ukraine (now called Krasne). His mother, Maria an accomplished amateur pianist who made annual trips to Moscow or St. Petersburg for lessons, was his first teacher. After Prokofiev advanced beyond his mother’s instructions, he received lessons from his well-known countryman Reinhold Glière before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Prokofiev’s legacy is proudly recalled near his hometown, where international airport in Donetsk bears his name.

 

2. Vladimir Horowitz

The birthplace of the great pianist Vladimir Horowitz is uncertain; he was born either in Kiev or Berdichev in the Ukraine. Like Prokofiev, the musical prodigy received his earliest piano instruction from his mother, but stayed in the Ukraine to attend the Kiev Conservatory. Though he intended to devote himself to composition, Horowitz turned to the piano after the Bolshevik Revolution as a means of supporting his family. Each year Kiev hosts the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz, which will next be held in April and May 2014.

 

3. Mykola Lysenko

The musical identity of the Ukraine owes much to Mykola Lysenko. Born in the 1840s, Lysenko studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, but spent most of his life forging a Ukrainian sound through his work. Like Bartok, Lysenko collected Ukrainian folk tales and songs and incorporated them into his music. His lyrics were written in the Ukrainian language—which had been banned by the Ukraine’s Russian rulers. His work is being celebrated this year as part of the Ukrainian Art Song Project. (Right: Statue of Lysenko in Kiev (Wikipedia Commons).

 

4. Valentin Silvestrov

Valentin Silvestrov is best known as one of the favorite composers of his Estonian contemporary, Arvo Pärt. Despite a late start to his musical education (he began formal training at 15, in the early 1950s), Silvestrov achieved early success in the 1960s, particularly in the West, even though Silvestrov was not able to travel beyond the Iron Curtain to see it. In the mid 1970s, rather than conform to accepted compositional styles, Silvestrov retreated from public view and wrote his Silent Songs. Since the fall of the USSR, the composer has been celebrated at home, most notably with a 60th birthday festival in Kiev in 1998.

 

5. Boris Lyatoshynsky

The father of contemporary Ukrainian music, Boris Lyatoshynsky spent most of his life composing under Soviet rule. Another student of Glière, he was influenced strongly by Scriabin, and later the Second Viennese School. However, in the 1930s, Lyatoshynsky was forced to conform to the tastes of the Soviet State. His Third Symphony, still his most famous, debuted in 1951 to much criticism. Only after an extensive rewrite of the final movement was it allowed to be played again, next in 1954.

Honorable Mentions: Virko Baley, Reinhold Glière, Lysenko String Quartet, Isaac Stern.

Please suggest your own favorites in the comments box below.

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"It definitely doesn’t play itself,” Meyers said. “When you have such a powerful instrument you want to dig in deeper and soak in the juice. But with this instrument, almost less is more. It’s counterintuitive.

“You have to really finesse it in a certain way,” she added, noting how she is learning how to find the sweet spots and bring them out.

The 1741 Guarneri, known as the Vieuxtemps, was sold in 2012 for what was reported to be more than $16 million and its anonymous owner has loaned it to Meyers for life. She recently put the instrument to the test with a recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the English Chamber Orchestra. Days after the album's release she brought the instrument to the WQXR Café to offer repertoire in a somewhat more unusual vein.

The internationally known Meyers, who is performing this spring with the Chicago Symphony and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, demonstrated its lyrical qualities with an arrangement of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile.”

One of the salient features of the Vieuxtemps is its enormous, rich sound, which Meyers attributes to its excellent state of preservation.

“It doesn’t have one crack on it and it doesn’t even have the normal sound post patch, which almost every violin has,” Meyers explained. “And it’s a muse for so many violin makers and violinists because nobody knows why it’s in such pristine condition. And this condition has helped the sound of the violin just soar.”

For one thing, the wood inside the violin was thicker, owing to the fact that previous owners did not alter it in a (misguided) attempt to draw out a deeper sound. Meyers added that the instrument had been mostly sitting under a bed for the past 50 years and as a result, “Even now, it’s still growing.” A Japanese folk tune arrangement revealed its tone in more virtuosic passagework.

Certainly, there has been ongoing debate over the relative merits of old and modern violins, and whether Guarneri and Stradivarius models are really better than the new ones. Blind tests have even suggested that experts couldn’t tell the difference between the two. Meyers notes, however, that contemporary makers still look to the centuries-old instruments for inspiration and guidance.

“There was one Monet, there was one Picasso, there was one Guarneri del Gesu," she said. "We try to emulate these incredible makers but they were artists that were transcendent. It’s so important to cherish these instruments as much as we can.”

Below: Meyers introduces and performs the "Star-Spangled Banner."

Video: Amy Pearl; Sound: Norko Okabe; Text & Production: Brian Wise; Interview: Jeff Spurgeon

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The prize was announced on Monday, just hours after the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra said that Denk will become its next Artistic Partner, a programming role with the ensemble.

Denk is having a big year. The pianist is Musical America's “Instrumentalist of the Year” and he will serve as the music director of the 2014 Ojai Music Festival in California. His first opera, The Classical Style, co-written with Steven Stucky, will receive its premiere at the festival in June before debuting at Zankel Hall in December. He is currently working on a memoir for Random House.

The Avery Fisher program also announced three career grants of $25,000 each to the pianist Charlie Albright, the violist Dimitri Murrath and the Calder Quartet. They will perform in a ceremony Tuesday night that will be broadcast April 2 on The Young Artists Showcase on WQXR, hosted by Robert Sherman.

The annual awards were established in 1974 as a gift to Lincoln Center from their late namesake. Recipients are chosen by the executive committee of the Avery Fisher Artist Program, most of whom are artistic leaders of Lincoln Center's music constituents.

Below: Jeremy Denk performs a WQXR Cafe Concert with Joshua Bell:

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The award, which had been widely expected, came one week after the accomplished Chopin pianist died at age 110. 

The film, directed by Malcolm Clarke, tells the extraordinary story of Herz-Sommer, her husband and her son, who were sent from their native Prague in 1943 to a concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin. Known as a "model" concentration camp, inmates there were allowed to stage concerts, and she managed to survive because of music-loving German officers’ admiration for her piano playing. Herz-Sommer and her son were among fewer than 20,000 who were freed when the notorious camp was liberated by the Soviet army in May 1945 (her mother and her husband died in Auschwitz).

Herz-Sommer had a significant musical upbringing: she was a piano student of Artur Schnabel and her mother was a friend of Gustav Mahler. After the war, Herz-Sommer settled in Israel, teaching at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, and in 1986 she moved to London, where she continued to practice the piano for hours each day until near the end of her life. Herz-Sommer recalls in the film that while in Terezín, she played more than 100 concerts, including the complete Chopin etudes from memory. "Music was our food. Through making music we were kept alive," she once recalled.

For more on HerzSommer's life, see Alex Ross's profile in the New Yorker, Anastasia Tsioulcas's feature on NPR Music and Margalit Fox's obituary in the New York Times.

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Robertson has been with St. Louis since 2005. His renewal comes after Riccardo Muti last month extended his contract with the Chicago Symphony for another five years. Franz Welser-Most and Alan Gilbert have also renewed with the Cleveland Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, respectively, through 2018.

By most accounts, the St. Louis Symphony has been in good financial health. In October it reported its smallest operating deficit since 2005 and an endowment that had climbed to almost $150 million (from $131 million the year before). The orchestra recently went on tours to Europe and California; it has performed at Carnegie Hall 16 times since 2002.

In November, the St. Louis Symphony brought a concert version of Britten's Peter Grimes to Carnegie Hall. Operavore critic David Patrick Stearns was enthusiastic in his review:

Orchestra and chorus gave world-class performances, but with something extra. Past Robertson performances have always been those of a solid generalist; name a repertoire and he does it well, and with more programming ideas this side of Michael Tilson Thomas. But would you go to a concert specifically because he's conducting? After hearing how his finely-wrought sense of sound so insightfully colored the opera's psychology, I would indeed.

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Sources close to the deal told the publication that "Mozart" is one of four pilots that Amazon Studios has green-lighted, a process that is based partly on viewer feedback. Amazon released a pilot episode of the show last month, complete with a tagline promising that "what happens behind the curtains at the symphony can be just as captivating as what occurs on stage."

Created by the heavy-hitting team of Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers, the series has a cast that includes Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters and Lola Kirke as a young, impressionable oboist who comes to New York in search of a job in the symphony. Soon, she gets thrust into a world of hard drinking, drug use, big egos and racy encounters (it is rated TNMA – for "mature audiences").

"Mozart in the Jungle" is loosely based on Tindall's 2005 memoir, subtitled "Sex, Drugs And Classical Music," which she wrote as she was transitioning from a career as a New York freelance musician to a writer and journalist. In the book, she spends her days whittling reeds in rundown apartments and her nights hopping between orchestra pits and the beds of men who might further her career. (Many critics focused on Tindall's kiss-and-tell adventures, perhaps overlooking a more serious story about the struggles musicians face in a cutthroat industry.)

Reviews of the Amazon pilot have been mixed, if generally favorable. Slate called it “sweet and charming if a little unformed." London's Telegraph observed that "the pilot is a bit of a mess" but "there's still promise here, in a soapy, alluring kind of way." The Los Angeles Times noted that the conductor character Rodrigo is an obvious parody of Gustavo Dudamel.

The 30-minute pilot, released by the online retailer's original video programming division, also features a cameo by Joshua Bell playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

Writing on Facebook on Tuesday, Tindall praised co-writer Schwartzman, and added succinctly, "Omgomgomg."

Below is the series trailer:

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Supervía made her stage debut in 1910 at 15 years old. She went on to sing on many of the world's stages including those in Paris, London, Milan, and Chicago. She was known not only for the flexibility of her voice, especially in the upper part of her range, but also for her dynamic stage presence. There were, of course, critics of her voice: it had a pronounced vibrato that some found sexy and others found disruptive. Still, Supervía thrilled many an audience throughout the 1920's until she died tragically in child birth. 

 

Playlist Highlights:

Gioacchino Rossini's La Cenerentola

Ambroise Thomas' Mignon

Georges Bizet's Carmen

Camille Saint-Saens' Samson and Dalilia

Rossini's Barber of Seville 

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