Beethoven: Violin Concerto and Haydn: Symphony No. 45 | Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Pekka Kuusisto
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- A fresh take on the familiar with Beethoven's Violin Sonata, Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony, Thomas Adès' "Three Studies by Couperin," and Missy Mazzoli's "Dissolve, O My Heart". This concert with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of violinist Pekka Kuusisto adheres to a particular concept: to reinterpret existing music and reinvent the concert situation. Each of the four works performed showcases how traditional forms can be recast in a vibrant and different way. Prepare for a fascinating concert experience at the 2023 Beethovenfest Bonn in the auditorium of the University of Bonn.
(00:00) Anticipation
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61,
(00:09) I. Allegro ma non troppo
(22:52) II. Larghetto
(30:52) III. Rondo. Allegro
Thomas Adès: "Three Studies from Couperin" for chamber orchestra
(44:31) I. Les Amusemens
(49:29) II. Les Tours de passe-passe
(54:05) III. L'Âme-en-peine
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, Hob.I:45 "Farewell"
(1:07:09) I. Allegro assai
(1:12:45) II. Adagio
(1:21:04) III. Minuet. Allegretto - Trio
(1:25:05) IV. Finale. Presto - Adagio
(1:32:38) Missy Mazzoli: "Dissolve, O My Heart" for solo violin
All four compositions in this concert are about renewal; gaining new perspective on the old and the traditional. In the Beethoven Violin Concerto, it’s the violin solo part that gets a revamp: Pekka Kuusisto plays his own arrangement of the solo based on a preliminary version of the concerto. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) composed his only completed violin concerto for the violinist and colleague Franz Clement. Clement enjoyed great fame at the time and premiered the work in Vienna in 1806. As the story goes, Beethoven was so late finishing the solo violin part that Clement was forced to sight read much of it during the concert and improvise the cadences. Initially something of a flop, the concerto was rarely performed in the ensuing years. It became a hit in 1844 - after a performance by 12-year-old Joseph Joachim in London conducted by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. This positioned Beethoven’s Violin Concerto as a formative work for the entire genre and it has been part of the standard repertoire ever since. Numerous composers and violinists have written their own cadences. Pekka Kuusisto has once again consulted original handwritten sources and created his own new version for solo violin.
In his "Three Studies from Couperin" for chamber orchestra, Thomas Adès (*1971) was inspired by three harpsichord works by François Couperin (1668-1733), court composer to Louis XIV.. Couperin’s character pieces are a musical expression of pleasures, chicanery and the anguish of the soul. As reflected in Couperin’s titles, which Adès also adopted for his work: "Les Amusemens", "Les Tours de passe-passe" and "L'Âme-en-peine". In the Adès version for chamber orchestra, the length of the Couperin pieces and their harmonic structure are retained, while the rhythms and timbres are new. This suddenly recasts French Baroque music in Thomas Adès’ typical compositional style. His dazzling three-movement orchestral work has been performed many times since 2006 in more than 20 countries.
In the Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor (Hob.I:45), popularly known as the Farewell, Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) shows his experimental side. The novel aspect of this Haydn symphony was its ending. Known as the father of Viennese classicism, Haydn did something quite revolutionary, breaking with conventions that dictated how a piece should be finished. Instead of the entire orchestra concluding the symphony together, each member of the orchestra reached the end of their pat and left the stage until just two violinists remained. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this was Haydn’s way of protesting working conditions at the court of Prince Esterházy. The musicians to be able to take a vacation. Apparently, the protest worked and they got their holiday.
The link between old and new in "Dissolve, O my Heart" for solo violin by the US compose Missy Mazzoli (*1980) is established by the very first chord of the piece. It’s the same chord that begins one of the most famous pieces for solo violin ever written: the Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750). The first chord of Bach’s D minor partita is so enigmatic it’s immediately recognizable - even though Mazzoli’s violin piece follows a very different developmental course thereafter. Finally, Mazzoli’s title "Dissolve, O my Heart" is a direct reference to the final aria of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion ("Zerfließe, mein Herz").
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It’s interesting, and exciting to hear some unusual notes from this well-known concerto
Voice of tranquility in a chaotic world.
IN KRRRAIZZY WORLD 🌍
Indeed, the tranquillity of classic music is a joy.
Mak in Rawalpindi.
Schöne Musik für einen schönen Tag.😅
Thanks DW
GRACIE MILLE
Божественно
The description incorrectly mentions Beethoven Violin Sonata instead of Violin Concerto
When someone asks what a conductor does, I'll show them this video
❤😂
DW只有在放古典音乐的时候才是能看的。
I know someone for whom the human immunodeficiency virus was a man. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome you caught when you met him was just a bit of overcommunication. You know who didn't need to say that loudly that he didn't like the guy that much from the word "Go."
can you edit out the 20 minutes of clapping?
61. Kevin Kostner in Dances with Wolves. Great movie. However, the music that is played in this is quite not in consonance with the alienation he would feel among the Native Americans of that day. One person. Everyone around him a stranger. No one really cares about him, but his job is to more than sit around and listen to his pulse in his head. He representated the government of the United States, as they existed back then, to the Native Americans who were attenuated, marginalized, and displaced from their own settlements and ancestral way of life. Many of their first traditions are gone. Apollyon, the Destroyer, says, if he doesn't like you, you, everyone who knows you, and everyone that merely imitates your mannerisms and folkways, is destroyed when he goes out for beer. He pays his tab and is convinced you are gone. That's how much he wants you gone if he really thinks about it. In that belly of the Great Sarnak, you are digested slowly over 1000 years. Well, I'll just be dead now. Don't mind me.
da ist wer am wwerk der weiss was Er tut. hellauf dem Herrm
This orchestra couldn't afford to hire a conductor (or maybe a soloist) 🤔
I can hardly hear the violinist … Bad miking?
This is what it sounds like to the audience... There's no way that violin can sound any louder against the orchestra
Don't like it. The concerto is played sooooo slow sometimes as if the orchestra comes to a complete stop and then gets its breath back again and it starts all over.
Haydn is good though...