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CHANNEL CLASSICS
CCS 40218
NING FENG VIOLIN
E L G A R&F I N Z I V I O L I N CO N C E RTO S
R OYA L L I V E R P O O L P H I L H A R M O N I C O R C H E S T R A
CARLOS MIGUEL PRIETO CONDUCTOR
NING FENG Brahms Violin Concerto with Lawrence Foster in
Berlin and on tour to China. Furthermore, he will
Ning Feng is recognised internationally as an artist return to Australia to perform with the West
of great lyricism, innate musicality and stunning Australian Symphony Orchestra and Karina
virtuosity. Blessed with an impeccable technique Canellakis and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
and a silken tone, his palette of colours ranges with Fabien Gabel. In his native China he will
from intimate delicacy to a ferocious intensity. return to the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under
The Berlin based Chinese violinist performs across the baton of Yu Long and is artist-in-residence
the globe with major orchestras and conductors, with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. Chamber
in recital and chamber concerts. music highlights include Ning Feng’s debut at the
Recent successes for Ning Feng have included Concertgebouw Amsterdam in an all-Schubert
a return to Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván programme with Nicholas Angelich and Edgar
Fischer in Budapest and on tour to China per Moreau, his return to the Wigmore Hall and a
forming Dutilleux L’arbre des songes, tours with recital in Eindhoven with the Dragon Quartet
the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Van which he founded in 2012. In April 2019, he will
Zweden to Europe, Asia and Australia, as well as return to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
successful debuts with Los Angeles Philharmonic, to perform chamber music concerts with the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony, City of Birmingham Spring Festival’s Artistic Director Daniel Müller-
Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Schott and others.
Orchestra. In recital and chamber music he per Ning Feng records for the Dutch label Channel
forms regularly with Igor Levit, amongst others, Classics. His latest disc, Bach’s Sonatas & Partitas
at many of the major festivals in Germany and for solo violin, has been hailed by Gramophone as
elsewhere, including Kissinger Sommer, Heidelberg, “unlike anyone else’s... it’s the illusion of a free
Moritzburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Schu wheeling conversation projected from within that
bertiade and La Jolla Music Society (California). held me captive”. His recording of the Elgar and
Highlights of Ning Feng’s 2018/19 season Finzi Violin Concertos with the Royal Liverpool
include debuts with the BBC Philharmonic Philharmonic conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto
Orchestra and Simone Young, São Paulo Symphony will be released in autumn 2018. Previous discs
Orchestra and Marin Alsop in Brazil and on tour to include Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Bruch
the Far East, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra Scottish Fantasy with the Deutsches Symphonie-
and Giancarlo Guerrero, the Hallé Orchestra, Orchester Berlin, ‘Apasionado’ with the Orchestra
the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias featuring
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. He will return to works by Sarasate, Lalo, Ravel and Bizet/Waxman, a
Ning Feng (photo: Felix Broede) the Konzerthausorchester Berlin to perform the recording of Schubert and Dvořák Quartets with
2 3his Dragon Quartet and two CDs of violin solo CARLOS MIGUEL PRIETO
repertoire.
Born in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng studied Carlos Miguel Prieto was born into a musical
at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, the Hanns family of Spanish and French descent in Mexico
Eisler School of Music (Berlin) with Antje Weithaas City. His charismatic conducting is characterised
and the Royal Academy of Music (London) with by its dynamism and the expressivity of his
Hu Kun, where he was the first student ever to interpretations. Prieto is recognised as a highly
be awarded 100% for his final recital. The recipient influential cultural leader and is the foremost
of prizes at the Hanover International, Queen Mexican conductor of his generation. He has been
Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin International violin the Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica
competitions, Ning Feng was First Prize winner Nacional de México, the country’s most important
of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin orchestra, since 2007. Prieto has also been Music
Competition (New Zealand), and in 2006 Director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
won first prize in the International Paganini since 2006, where he has led the cultural renewal
Competition. of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In
Ning Feng plays a 1721 Stradivari violin, 2008 he was appointed Music Director of the
known as the ‘MacMillan’, on private loan, kindly Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, a hand-picked
arranged by Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, orchestra which performs a two month long series
and plays on strings by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna. of summer programmes in Mexico City.
Carlos Miguel Prieto (photo: Benjamin Ealovega)
4 5ROYAL LIVERPOOL alongside works by Liverpool-born and North
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA West-based composers.
Collaborations with international artists
Founded in 1840 by a group of Liverpool music- from rock and pop include Sir Paul McCartney,
lovers, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic is the UK’s Elvis Costello, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the
oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra Dark, Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds, Echo
and one of the world’s oldest concert societies. and The Bunnymen, Cast and the Bootleg Beatles.
Today, the organisation’s mission is ‘to enhance The Orchestra also performs widely through
and transform lives through music’ through a out the UK and internationally and has a disting
dynamic group of music ensembles, at the centre uished discography. Recent additions include a
of which is the award-winning Royal Liverpool third volume of Vaughan Williams’ symphonies with
Philharmonic Orchestra. Andrew Manze. With Vasily Petrenko recordings
Vasily Petrenko was appointed Principal include the first instalment of Stravinsky’s ballet
Conductor of the Orchestra in 2006 and in 2009 music, featuring The Rite of Spring, coupled with
became Chief Conductor, joining a distinguished Rachmaninov’s Spring and Debussy’s Printemps;
line of musicians who have led the Orchestra surveys of Rachmaninov’s symphonies, orchestral
during its illustrious history. Andrew Manze was works and piano concertos with Simon Trpčeski;
appointed Principal Guest Conductor in 2018. the complete symphonies of Shostakovich and
The Orchestra gives over 70 concerts each Elgar; and the complete symphonies and piano
season in its home, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, concertos of Tchaikovsky, all of which have gar
and in recent seasons has given world premiere nered worldwide critical acclaim. The recording
performances of major works by Sir Peter Maxwell of Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 5, won
Davies, Sir John Tavener, Stewart Copeland, Michael ‘Recording of the Year’ and ‘Orchestral Recording of
Nyman, James Horner and Sir James MacMillan, the Year’ at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017.
liverpoolphil.com
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (photo: Mark McNulty)
6 7SOMETHING PERSONAL TO SAY ENGLISH MUSICAL LIFE ELGAR AND HIS VIOLIN
AWAKES CONCERTO
England has always had a very special place in my heart. Not only was it the first foreign
country I ever traveled to, but I also spent five unforgettable years studying at the Royal The year 1934 was one of the most tragic in In his youth Elgar had studied the violin intensively,
Academy of Music in London, where I learned so much about the English people, history, English musical life. The British mourned the loss of and it was probably only a question of time before
culture, and, more importantly, the beauty of English Music. no less than three of their late romantics: Edward he would write for the instrument. When the Violin
Elgar is perhaps the most iconic figure in British music history. People may say that his Elgar, Gustav Holst and Frederick Delius. The Concerto was published in 1910, other works,
cello concerto is the more popular piece, but no one would doubt that his violin concerto is, greatest void of all was left by Elgar. As he came to including The Dream of Gerontius, the oratorios The
certainly, the most monumental piece in the British violin repertory. I still remember the first the fore as the most outstanding musical Apostles and The Kingdom, and (from 1908) the
time I heard the piece and how much it reminded me of the landscape, the colour, the image personality around 1900, he awakened the nation’s first of his two symphonies, had already been
of England. It is always very emotional for me to perform this piece, the longest violin concerto musical life from the long winter that had followed added to the repertoire of orchestras and choirs.
ever written, as all the precious memories of my time in England come flooding back. after Purcell and Handel, setting the country back, What is more, in addition to honorary doctorates
I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to a very special friend of some two centuries after Purcell’s death, on the from major universities, he was knighted in 1904.
mine, Mr Chong Long, who introduced me to the wonderful Finzi violin concerto. Compared international musical map. Although he was the Expectations therefore ran high when the
with the Elgar violin concerto, Finzi’s is a much shorter piece written in concerto grosso spokesman of an era that was nearing its end – Philharmonic Society gave the first performance of
style. It has lovely energetic first and last movements, with a beautiful, touching slow second romanticism - his contemporary and friend Richard Elgar’s new Violin Concerto in the Queen’s Hall in
movement in between. It is a wonderful and very interesting listening experience to have these Strauss described him as ‘the most important November 1910. The work was dedicated to Fritz
two English violin concertos placed together. progressive English musician’. In much of his music Kreisler, the celebrated soloist who on this
I would also like to share my appreciation for Mr. Long’s generous support, which made this one hears that special melancholy which only Elgar occasion played under the composer’s direction.
recording possible. could commit to paper. With several large-scale Elgar had already made preliminary sketches in
Ning Feng orchestral works he acquired a place of his very 1905 after reading a newspaper interview in which
own, in the footsteps of Brahms, Liszt and Wagner, the thirty-year-old violinist had spoken kindly about
in classical repertoire. A melody from one of his his music, placing him in the line of Beethoven and
Pomp and Circumstance marches was adopted for Brahms and expressing the wish that Elgar would
the now celebrated song Land of Hope and Glory, one day write for his instrument. After the
labelling him as the man who could give musical premiere Kreisler’s enthusiasm seemed to wane, as
expression to the once so glorious British Empire. he made some cuts in the piece and turned down
The English musicologist Michael Kennedy declared proposals to record it. It must nonetheless be said
Elgar’s Enigma Variations to be ‘the best that in the Violin Concerto Elgar combined the
composition ever written by an Englishman’. In a singing qualities of Beethoven with the symphonic
flash, in 1899, the work turned the shy composer drama of Brahms, while the highly challenging solo
from the provinces into a presence in the musical part is wellnigh a compendium of bravura violin
life of the capital. technique.
8 9Hardly surprising in the case of Elgar, fond as he A YOUTHFUL GEM BY lovely English landscape, and evoked elegiac and Vaughan Williams had had to persuade Finzi
was of word puzzels and suchlike, is the conspi GERALD FINZI melancholic moods in his music. to go through with the performance, since after
cuous and mysterious inscription at the top of the Fortunately, there was ‘Uncle Ralph’, the older a previous trial execution of some sections the
score: Aqui esta encerrada el alma de *****, A composer strongly rooted in the relatively Ralph Vaughan Williams who became his mentor composer was dissatisfied with the two fast
[Herein lies enshrined the soul of...], an epitaph on conservative ‘pastoral’ English tradition of Hubert and who put Finzi’s works on the music stands at corner movements. Indeed the official premiere
the grave of a poet in the picaresque novel Gil Blas Parry, Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams the concerts he directed. He also conducted the under Vaughan Williams did not bring about a
(1715) by Alain-René Lesage. It is usually thought was Gerald Finzi (1901-1956). In his lifetime his premiere of Finzi’s Violin Concerto in 1928, with change of mind. The work as a whole was put
to refer to Alice Stuart-Wortley, an important music was largely overshadowed by that of which the twenty-six-year-old composer made his away in a drawer, and only the serene, pastoral
muse for the composer, whom he referred to as progressive contemporaries such as Benjamin London debut. The violinist Sybil Eaton (for whom middle movement acquired a life of its own
‘Windflower’ (anemone) to distinguish her from Britten, who was acclaimed by a larger and more the concerto was written) wrote to Finzi’s mother: under the title Introit. Thanks to Finzi’s sons, a
Alice his wife. The second theme (maestoso) of international audience. It was only after Finzi’s ‘I don’t know if I will have told you that VW made reconstruction of the whole concerto has been
the first movement is seen as the ‘Windflower’ untimely death that he gradually came to be a speech to the orchestra saying that he very much undertaken, which was given its first performance
melody. But it is introduced only after an extensive recognised as a composer of significance; his works wanted the work to go well, for although the – after the 1928 premiere – in 1999. And thus,
opening passage, including a lengthy orchestral were subsequently published and recorded, and his composer from youth & inexperience had alongside his later, more familiar concertos for
introduction lasting some three minutes, giving the oeuvre became more widely known. Gerald Finzi miscalculated his effects in places he liked the clarinet and cello, this sparkingly energetic yet
listener the impression that this is a symphonic grew up in London as the son of Jewish parents work, & believed that he (g.) [Gerald] would do elegiac, youthful work by Gerald Finzi has taken
work of dramatic and lyrical proportions. The entry of Italian and German origin. These were the great things some day. Wasn’t that nice?’ on a new lease of life.
of the violin is therefore something of a surprise, days of English nationalism following the First
like the arrival of a weighty, radiant personage, World War, when English music flourished under Clemens Romijn
sounding so deep and grand on the G string, and the leadership of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Translation: Stephen Taylor
suddenly enwrapped in gentle orchestral ‘Englishness’ imbued many aspects of Finzi’s life and
complaisance. Elgar’s rhapsodic style, overflowing thought, as conversations with friends, and letters
with tempo fluctuations and strongly contrasting and articles on music go to show. Like Vaughan
episodes, may well disguise the structure of sonata Williams, he closely studied English folk music and
form, but not the traditional three-movement composers of bygone ages, such as William Boyce.
set-up. And by bringing back themes from the first And he perused the poetry of Thomas Hardy,
two movements in the Finale he strove to create a Thomas Traherne, Christina Rossetti and William
cohesive work of some forty-five to fifty minutes Wordsworth, through which he was prompted to
length, and almost cyclic, like his great examples undertake long walking holidays along the coast
Schumann and Liszt and his deceased and through the countryside, and to compose
contemporary César Franck. This ‘coherent whole’ wonderful songs. Finzi found comfort in poetry
comes over clearly in Elgar’s own recording (1932), after the loss (shortly before his eighth birthday)
with the teenage Yehudi Menuhin as solist and the of his father, and all three brothers in the First
London Symphony Orchestra. World War. He sought the lost paradise in the
10 11ETWAS PERSÖNLICHES DAS ENGLISCHE ELGAR UND SEIN
MUSIKLEBEN ERWACHT VIOLINKONZERT
England hat seit jeher einen ganz besonderen Platz in meinem Herzen. Es war nicht nur das
erste fremde Land, in das ich je gereist bin, sondern ich verbrachte hier auch fünf unvergess 1934 ist eines der tragischsten Jahre im englischen Es war naheliegend, dass Elgar eines Tages ein Violin
liche Jahre an der Royal Academy of Music in London, wo ich so viel über das englische Volk, Musikleben. Die Briten hatten den Tod von drei ihrer konzert schreiben würde, denn als junger Mann
seine Geschichte, die Kultur und, was noch wichtiger ist, die Schönheit der englischen Musik Spätromantiker zu beklagen: Edward Elgar, Gustav hatte er sich intensiv mit dem Geigenspiel beschäf
lernte. Holst und Frederick Delius. Die größte Lücke hinter tigt. Als das Violinkonzert erschien, gehörte seine
Elgar ist die vielleicht legendärste Figur der britischen Musikgeschichte. Auch wenn manche ließ Elgar. Er hatte sich nicht nur zur größten Musiker Musik, vor allem sein Dream of Gerontius, die Orato
sein Cellokonzert für sein beliebtestes Werk halten, würde dennoch niemand bezweifeln, dass persönlichkeit um 1900 entwickelt, sondern war rien The Apostles und The Kingdom sowie ab 1908
sein Violinkonzert das monumentalste Werk des britischen Geigenrepertoires ist. Ich erinnere auch der Komponist, der das englische Musikleben die erste seiner beiden Sinfonien, bereits zum festen
mich noch, wie ich es zum ersten Mal hörte und wie sehr es mich an die Landschaft und die nach Purcell und Händel aus seinem Dornröschen Repertoire von Orchestern und Chören. Darüber
Farben Englands erinnerte. Es ist immer sehr bewegend für mich, dieses Werk, das längste schlaf erweckt und England zwei Jahrhunderte nach hinaus war er von großen Universitäten mit der
jemals geschriebene Violinkonzert, aufzuführen, da es die so wertvollen Erinnerungen an meine Purcells Tod wieder einen Platz auf der musikalischen Ehrendoktorwürde ausgezeichnet und 1904 sogar
Zeit in England wachruft. Weltkarte verschafft hatte. Obwohl Elgar als Roman in den Ritterstand erhoben worden. Entsprechend
Ich möchte die Gelegenheit nutzen, um mich bei einem ganz besonderen Freund, Herrn tiker eine sich dem Ende zuneigende Ära vertrat, hoch waren die Erwartungen, als die Philharmoni
Chong Long, zu bedanken, der mich mit dem wunderbaren Violinkonzert von Finzi bekannt bezeichnete ihn der befreundete Zeitgenosse Richard sche Gesellschaft Elgars neues Violinkonzert im
gemacht hat. Das Werk ist viel kürzer als Elgars Violinkonzert und im Stil eines Concerto Strauss als „den bedeutendsten fortschrittlichen November 1910 in der Queen‘s Hall uraufführte.
grosso geschrieben. Es hat wunderschöne, energische Ecksätze und dazwischen einen berühren englischen Musiker“. Viele seiner Werke atmen diese Das Konzert war Fritz Kreisler gewidmet, der bei
den langsamen zweiten Satz. Es ist ein wunderbares und sehr interessantes Hörerlebnis, diese eigenartige milde Melancholie, die so typisch ist für der Premiere unter Elgars Leitung auch den Solo
beiden englischen Violinkonzerte nebeneinander zu hören. Elgar. Mit einigen großen Orchesterwerken gelang es part übernahm. Bereits 1905 hatte Elgar erste Ideen
Darüber hinaus möchte ich mich bei Herrn Long sehr herzlich für seine großzügige Unter ihm, in die Fußstapfen von Brahms, Liszt und Wagner skizziert, nachdem sich der damals 30-jährige Geiger
stützung bedanken, ohne die diese Aufnahme nicht möglich gewesen wäre. zu treten und sich einen Platz im klassischen Reper in einem Zeitungsinterview lobend über seine
toire zu erobern. Eine Melodie aus seinem Pomp and Musik geäußert hatte: Kreisler nannte Elgar in einem
Ning Feng Circumstance wurde für das inzwischen allseits be Atemzug mit Beethoven und Brahms und wünschte,
kannte Lied Land of Hope and Glory übernommen, Elgar möge etwas für Violine schreiben. Nach der
was ihm den Ruf eines Tondichters des einst glor Uraufführung ließ Kreislers Begeisterung für das
reichen britischen Imperiums einbrachte. Und Elgars Konzert jedoch nach, er kürzte es und lehnte alle
meistgespieltes und bekanntestes Werk, die Enigma- Vorschläge, das Werk einzuspielen, ab, obwohl Elgar
Variationen, beurteilte der englische Musikwissen ein Werk geschaffen hatte, das Beethovens Gesang
schaftler Michael Kennedy als „die beste Kompo lichkeit und Brahms‘ symphonische Dramatik in sich
sition, die je von einem Engländer geschrieben vereint und dabei einen sehr herausfordernden
wurde“. Das machte den schüchternen Komponisten Solopart aufzuweisen hat, der fast als Kompendium
aus der Provinz 1899 auf einen Schlag zu einem der virtuosen Geigentechniken gelten könnte.
bekannten Namen im Londoner Musikleben. Bemerkenswert und typisch für Elgar, diesen
12 13Liebhaber von Rätseln und Wortspielen, ist der EIN FRÜHES JUWEL
geheimnisvolle Text in der Partitur: Aqui esta en VON GERALD FINZI
cerrada el alma de ******* [Hierin liegt verborgen
die Seele von … ], eine Inschrift, die im Schelmen Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) war in der relativ
roman Gil Blas (1715) von Alain-René Lesage das konservativen, „pastoralen“ englischen Tradition
Grab eines Dichters ziert. Dies wird üblicherweise Hubert Parrys, Edward Elgars und Ralph Vaughan
als Hinweis auf Alice Stuart-Wortley interpretiert, Williams‘ verwurzelt. Zeit seines Lebens standen
eine seiner Musen, der er den Spitznamen „wind seine Werke weitgehend im Schatten fortschritt
flower“ (Anemone) gab, um sie von seiner Frau zu licherer Zeitgenossen wie Benjamin Britten, der bei
unterscheiden, die ebenfalls Alice hieß. Das zweite einem größeren und internationaleren Publikum
Thema (Maestoso) des ersten Satzes gilt als „wind mehr Resonanz fand. Erst nach seinem frühen Tod
flower-Thema“. Doch bis dahin ist bereits ein gutes wurde Finzis Bedeutung als Komponist allmählich
Stück Musik vergangen, zum Beispiel die lange Or anerkannt, seine Musik veröffentlicht und aufge
chestereinleitung von nicht weniger als drei Minuten, nommen, sein Werk verbreitet. Gerald Finzi wuchs
die dem Hörer den Eindruck einer abwechselnd in London als Sohn jüdischer Eltern italienischer
dramatischen und lyrischen Sinfonie vermittelt. und deutscher Abstammung auf. Die Zeit nach
Der Geigeneinsatz, wunderschön und tief auf der dem Ersten Weltkrieg war vom englischen Natio
G-Saite, kommt überraschend, wie der Auftritt nalismus geprägt. Englische Musik, allen voran von
einer gewichtigen, charismatischen Figur, die vom Elgar und Vaughan Williams, war tonangebend, und
Orchester mit Zuvorkommenheit und Zärtlichkeit „Englishness“ durchdrang auch viele Aspekte von
empfangen wird. Elgars rhapsodischer Ansatz mit Finzis Leben und Denken, wie seine Gespräche mit
Temposchwankungen und stark kontrastierenden Freunden, Briefe und Artikel über Musik zeigen.
Abschnitten verwischt die Struktur der Sonaten- Wie Vaughan Williams vertiefte auch er sich in die
form, dennoch ist das etwa fünfundvierzig bis fünfzig englische Volksmusik und Komponisten früherer
Minuten lange Werk traditionell dreisätzig aufgebaut. Jahrhunderte, etwa William Boyce. Außerdem
Edward Elgar Gerald Finzi Im Finale greift Elgar Themen aus den vorangegange studierte er die Gedichte von Thomas Hardy,
nen Sätzen wieder auf, sodass ein großes, fast zykli Thomas Traherne, Christina Rossetti und William
sches Ganzes entsteht, das an seine großen Vorbilder Wordsworth, die ihn zu langen Spaziergängen an
Schumann und Liszt und seinen bereits verstorbe der Küste und in der „countryside“ anregten und
nen Zeitgenossen César Franck anknüpft. Dieses ihn zu wundervollen Liedern inspirierten. Die
„große Ganze“ ist besonders gut in Elgars eigener Dichtung bot ihm auch Trost, als (kurz vor seinem
Aufnahme von 1932 mit dem jungen Yehudi achten Geburtstag) sein Vater starb und im Ersten
Menuhin als Solisten und dem London Symphony Weltkrieg seine drei Brüder fielen. Finzi suchte das
Orchestra zu hören. verlorene Paradies in der lieblichen englischen
14 15Landschaft, seine Musik war erfüllt von Elegie well, for although the composer from youth & DISCOGRAPHY
und Melancholie. inexperience had miscalculated his effects in
Glücklicherweise gab es „Onkel Ralph“, den places he liked the work, & believed that he (g.) Channel Classics recordings of Ning Feng
älteren Ralph Vaughan Williams, der sein Mentor [Gerald] would do great things some day. Wasn’t CCS SA 80807 Hello Mr. Paganini
wurde und Finzis Musik bei Konzerten, die er that nice?”] CCS SA 31210 Solo vol.1
selbst dirigierte, aufs Programm setzte. Er war Vaughan Williams hatte Finzi zu dieser CCS SA 34413 Solo vol. 2
es auch, der 1928 Finzis Violinkonzert dirigierte, Aufführung überreden müssen, denn nach einer CCS SA 34913 Bruch & Tchaikovsky
mit dem der 26-jährige Komponist sein Londoner ersten Probe war der Komponist mit den beiden CCS 37916 Apasionado (De Sarasate, Lalo,
Debüt gab. Der Geiger Sybil Eaton (für den schnellen Ecksätzen unzufrieden. Auch die offizielle Ravel, Bizet/Waxman)
Finzi sein Violinkonzert komponierte) schrieb Premiere mit Vaughan Williams konnte an seiner CCS 39417 Schubert & Dvořák
Finzis Mutter: „Ich weiß nicht, ob ich Ihnen schon Meinung nichts ändern. Das Stück als Ganzes (with Dragon String Quartet)
erzählt habe, dass VW eine Rede vor dem verschwand in der Schublade, nur der ruhige, CCS 39018 J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas
Orchester hielt und sagte, er wolle, dass es gut ländliche Mittelteil durfte unter dem Titel „Introit“ for solo violin BWV 1001-1006
liefe, weil er dieses Werk liebe, auch wenn sich bleiben. Dank Finzis Söhnen entstand eine
der Komponist aufgrund seiner Jugend und Rekonstruktion des gesamten Konzertes, die
Unerfahrenheit an einigen Stellen mit den Effekten 1999 zum ersten Mal seit der Uraufführung von
verkalkuliert habe. Er glaube, dass er [Gerald] 1928 wieder gespielt wurde und diesem frischen,
eines Tages große Dinge erreichen würde. War energischen, aber auch elegischen Frühwerk von
das nicht nett?“ [“I don’t know if I will have told Gerald Finzi neben seinen späteren bekannteren
you that VW made a speech to the orchestra Konzerten für Klarinette und Cello neues Leben
saying that he very much wanted the work to go eingehaucht hat.
Clemens Romijn
Übersetzung: Anne Habermann
16 17COLOPHON
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18 19NING FENG VIOLIN
E L G A R&F I N Z I V I O L I N CO N C E RTO S
R OYA L L I V E R P O O L P H I L H A R M O N I C O R C H E S T R A
CARLOS MIGUEL PRIETO CONDUCTOR
E D W A R D E L G A R (1857-1934)
CO N C E RTO I N B M I N O R F O R V I O L I N
A N D O R C H E S T R A op.61 (1909-10)
To Fritz Kreisler
1 Allegro 18.40
2 Andante 12.33
3 Allegro 20.23
G E R A L D F I N Z I (1901-1956)
V I O L I N C O N C E R T O (1925-27)
4 Allegro 5.45
5 Molto sereno 9.46
6 Hornpipe Rondo – Allegro risoluto 3.57
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