TOVEY & HADELICH

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

Tuesday, July 27 | 6:00PM

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  • July

    27

    Tuesday

    6:00 PM

    Orchestra Concert

    TOVEY & HADELICH

    NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 

    Bramwell Tovey, conductor
    Augustin Hadelich, violin
    John Fleming, special guest conductor

    DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46, No.8
    PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
    BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"


    Grammy and Juno Award winning Bramwell Tovey, “the very model of a modern orchestral maestro” (Montecristo Magazine), shares the stage with Bravo! favorite Augustin Hadelich, declared “one of the outstanding violinists of his generation” (New York Times) and “technically and musically impeccable” (Washington Post). 

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Program Notes

DVOŘÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor, Op. 46, No. 8

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PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, Pastoral

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DVOŘÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor, Op. 46, No. 8

Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor, Op. 46, No. 8 (1878)
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)

Antonín Dvořák was 33 years old when he received his first break as a composer, in 1874: he was awarded the Austrian State Stipendium, a grant to assist young, poor, gifted musicians—which described him exactly. That he received the award five years in a row underscores how little his financial situation improved in the 1870s. The Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick was on the jury that first year, and Johannes Brahms joined him as a judge beginning in 1875. In 1877, Hanslick encouraged Dvořák to send some scores to Brahms. Dvořák did, and Brahms recommended the emerging composer to his own publisher, Fritz Simrock, who immediately published Dvořák’s Moravian Duets, commissioned a collection of Slavonic Dances, and contracted a first option on all the composer’s new works. Simrock hoped the Slavonic Dances would resemble Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, and that is the spirit in which the public received them. A Berlin newspaper reviewer proclaimed: “Here is at last a hundred-percent talent and, what is more, a completely natural talent. I consider the Slavonic Dances to be a work which will make its triumphant way through the world in the same way as Brahms’ Hungarian Dances.” They put Dvořák on the musical map. That initial set of eight dances—Dvořák’s Op. 46, scored for piano four-hands—brought him his first composer’s fee, however modest, and it earned a small fortune for the publisher. Within months, Dvořák produced orchestral versions of them, and in 1886 he followed up with eight further Slavonic Dances for piano four-hands (Op. 72), which he similarly enlarged into orchestral settings. Slavonic Dance No. 8 from the first set is an example of the furiant, a fiery dance with shifting accents.

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Just before the Russian Revolution broke out, Sergei Prokofiev boarded the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, sailed on to Japan, Honolulu, and San Francisco, and from there proceeded cross-country to New York. New York and Paris would be his base for more than a decade, but by 1932 his steps began turning homeward to what in the meantime had become the Soviet Union—and in 1936 he settled in Moscow for good. He composed his Violin Concerto No. 2 while he was still based part-time in Paris and on the verge of returning to the Soviet Union. “Reflecting my nomadic concertizing experience,” Prokofiev stated in his so-called Short Autobiography of 1939-41, “the concerto was written in the most diverse countries: the main subject of the first movement was written in Paris, the first theme of the second movement in Voronezh, the instrumentation was completed in Baku, and the premiere took place in December of 1935 in Madrid.” He initially thought of titling the piece “Concert Sonata for Violin and Orchestra,” but he finally gave up that unnecessary complication and called it simply Violin Concerto No. 2, his Violin Concerto No. 1 having been premiered a dozen years earlier.

Prokofiev was a master orchestrator, and his Violin Concerto No. 2 brims with extraordinary, often spare, instrumental effects. He calls for five percussion instruments in the score—bass drum, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, and castanets—arranging everything so that all can be handled by a single player if necessary. It has been suggested that the castanets were added late in the orchestration process, just after plans changed such that the concerto would be premiered in Madrid rather than Paris. Whether a passage of “Spanish rhythms” in the string parts near the end of the third movement was already in place is anyone’s guess. 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, Pastoral

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, Pastoral (1808)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Like many modern urbanites, Ludwig van Beethoven drew sustenance from the city—in his case, Vienna—but complained about its inconveniences. He enjoyed escaping to places like the village of Heiligenstadt, where he installed himself while composing his Sixth Symphony in the summer of 1808. “How delighted I shall be to ramble for a while through bushes, woods, under trees, through grass, and around rocks,” he wrote two years later. “No one can love the country as much as I do. For surely woods, trees, and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear.”

Beethoven worried that priming listeners to hear specific images in his music might restrict their experience of a work. Jottings in his sketches for the Sixth Symphony reinforce that idea: “The hearers should be allowed to discover the situations,” “All painting in instrumental music is lost if it is pushed too far,” and so on. Nonetheless, he condoned the use of the title Pastoral even as he downplayed the music’s illustrative qualities. At the head of a violin part used in the first performance (and only parts were available at that time, since the orchestral score was not published until 1826) is written “Sinfonia Pastorella / Pastoral Symphony/ or / Recollection of Country Life / More an Expression of Feeling than Painting.” Each of the five movements also carries an individual motto describing a rural experience. Numerous compositions have been cited as prefiguring the programmatic bent of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, including a piano fantasia by Franz Jakob Freystädtler called A Spring Morning, Noon, and Night, and a symphony by Justin Heinrich Knecht titled Le portrait musical de la nature. Such pieces were characteristic of an epoch nursed by the back-to-nature philosophy of Rousseau and Herder. In Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, nature found its supreme musical mirror.

Artist Bios

Bramwell Tovey

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Grammy and Juno award-winning conductor and composer Bramwell Tovey has most recently added the title of Artistic Director of Calgary Opera Company to his role as Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra and Artistic Advisor to the Rhode Island Philharmonic.

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Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich, Violin

Musical America’s “2018 Instrumentalist of the Year,” Augustin Hadelich has firmly established himself as one of the great violinists of today.

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Bramwell Tovey

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Grammy and Juno award-winning conductor and composer Bramwell Tovey is the newly appointed Music Director Designate of the Sarasota Orchestra.

He will continue in his roles as Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec.

Following an exceptional 18 year tenure as Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony, which concluded in summer 2018, he now returns as the orchestra’s Music Director Emeritus. Under his leadership the VSO toured China, Korea, across Canada and the United States. His VSO innovations included the establishment of the VSO School of Music, the VSO’s annual festival of contemporary music and the VSO Orchestral Institute at Whistler, a comprehensive summer orchestral training program for young musicians held in the scenic mountain resort of Whistler in British Columbia.

With the resumption of concerts in summer 2021 Mr. Tovey has conducted the New York Philharmonic at Bravo Vail, Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and will lead the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Proms before embarking on a full schedule including a special concert in Sarasota to mark the beginning of his tenure followed by guest appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Helsingborg Symphony, Sweden.

In 2003 Bramwell Tovey won the Juno Award for Best Classical Composition for his choral and brass work Requiem for a Charred Skull. His song cycle, Ancestral Voices, which addresses the issue of Reconciliation, was written for acclaimed Kwagiulth mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and premiered in June 2017. His trumpet concerto, Songs of the Paradise Saloon, was commissioned by the Toronto Symphony for principal trumpet, Andrew McCandless and performed in 2014 by Alison Balsom with the LA Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and the London Philharmonic Orchestras. A recording of his opera, The Inventor, commissioned by Calgary Opera, features the original cast, members of UBC Opera and the VSO.

Mr. Tovey was the recipient of the Oskar Morawetz 2015 Prize for Excellence in Music Performance. He was previously Music Director of Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg where he led the world premiere of Penderecki’s Eighth Symphony on the opening of the principality’s new concert hall, the Philharmonie. He won the Prix d’or of the Academie Lyrique Française for his recording of Jean Cras’ 1922 opera Polyphème with OPL and toured with the orchestra to China, Korea, the United States and throughout Europe.

In 2013 he was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Canada for services to music.

 

Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich, Violin

At the age of 34, Augustin Hadelich has firmly established himself as one of the great violinists of today. Named “2018 Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, he has performed with every major orchestra in the U.S., many on numerous occasions, as well as an ever-growing number of orchestras in the UK, Europe, and Asia. Showcasing a wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire, he is consistently cited for his phenomenal technique, soulful approach, and beauty of tone.

International highlights of the 2018/2019 season include his debut with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Munich and engagements with Belgian National Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orquesta Nacional de España, and the symphony orchestras of Bournemouth, City of Birmingham, New Zealand, São Paulo, and Singapore. He will also perform in a 10-concert tour of Germany with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, featuring double concertos with violinist Julia Fischer. In the United States, he will return to the symphonies of Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, San Diego, and Seattle, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

Summer 2018 saw Augustin Hadelich's debut at the Salzburger Festspiele, performing the Sibelius concerto with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony, as well as return appearances at the Aspen, Bravo! Vail and Colorado music festivals. Other recent festival appearances include his debut at the BBC Proms, as well as performances with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood and the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom. Mr. Hadelich has also performed at the Britt, Chautauqua (where he made his U.S. orchestral debut in 2001), Eastern, Grand Teton, Marlboro, Rheingau, and Sun Valley festivals.

Among recent international performances are the BBC Philharmonic/Manchester, Concertgebouw Orchestra/Amsterdam, Hallé Orchestra (UK), Hamburg Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra/Salzburg, Munich Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, NHK Symphony/Tokyo, Sapporo Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and the radio orchestras of Cologne, Frankfurt, Saarbrücken, and Stuttgart.

Augustin Hadelich has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Thomas Adès, Marin Alsop, Stefan Asbury, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, James Conlon, Stéphane Denève, Christoph von Dohnányi, Thierry Fischer, the late Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, James Gaffigan, Alan Gilbert, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Manfred Honeck, Jakub Hruša, Carlos Kalmar, Hannu Lintu, Andrew Litton, Cristian Macelaru, Jun Märkl, Fabio Mechetti, Juanjo Mena, Ludovic Morlot, Andris Nelsons, Sakari Oramo, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Peter Oundjian, Vasily Petrenko, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Lahav Shani, John Storgårds, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Krzysztof Urbański, Edo de Waart, and Jaap van Zweden, among others.

An active recitalist, Augustin Hadelich’s numerous engagements include appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw/Amsterdam, The Frick Collection/New York, Kennedy Center/ Washington, Kioi Hall/Tokyo, the Louvre, and the Wigmore Hall/London. His chamber music partners have included Inon Barnatan, Jeremy Denk, James Ehnes, Alban Gerhardt, Richard Goode, Gary Hoffman, Kim Kashkashian, Robert Kulek, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Charles Owen, Vadim Repin, Mitsuko Uchida, Joyce Yang, and members of the Guarneri and Juilliard quartets.

Augustin Hadelich is the winner of a 2016 Grammy Award – “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” – for his recording of Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto, L’Arbre des songes, with the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot (Seattle Symphony MEDIA). A prolific recording artist, Mr. Hadelich’s newest disc – Paganini 24 Caprices for Warner Classics – was released in January. Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote about this recording: “Anyone who masters these pieces so confidently has, so to speak, reached the regions of eternal snow: he has reached the top.” Other recent discs include live recordings of the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Lalo (Symphonie espagnole) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on the LPO label (2017), and an album of duo works for violin and piano on AVIE in collaboration with Joyce Yang (2016). Previous recordings on the AVIE label include the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Bartók’s Concerto No. 2 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya (2015), and the violin concertos of Jean Sibelius and Thomas Adès (Concentric Paths) with Hannu Lintu conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (2014), nominated for a Gramophone Award and listed by NPR on their Top 10 Classical CDs of 2014.

Augustin Hadelich’s career took off when he won the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Since then, he has garnered an impressive list of honors, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009); a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in the UK (2011); Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award (2012); the inaugural Warner Music Prize (2015); a Grammy Award (2016); an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in the UK (2017); and Musical America’s “2018 Instrumentalist of the Year.”

Born in Italy, the son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich is now an American citizen. He holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. Mr. Hadelich plays the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.



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