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Brahms by the Bashmets
Johannes Brahms

Yuri Bashmet | Ksenia Bashmet

Brahms by the Bashmets

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Format: CD
Label: Fondamenta
UPC: 0190758114125
Catnr: FON 1802030
Release date: 09 March 2018
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Label
Fondamenta
UPC
0190758114125
Catalogue number
FON 1802030
Release date
09 March 2018

"Luister 10: Intensely melancholy, viola and piano alternate in the Allegro appassionato."

Luister, 18-5-2018
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About the album

The works of chamber music that showcase the timbre of the viola, so delicate and so profoundly human, are relatively scarce.

Brahms’ two sonatas, Op. 120, elegant and highly expressive, sublimate the extreme sensitivity of the viola with a simplicity that only perfect mastery of musical composition can achieve. The music of Brahms and Yuri Bashmet's viola were made to meet each other. Admirably accompanied by his daughter, Ksenia Bashmet, he takes us into a world of depth, virtuosity and aesthetic prowess.

As if a butterfly-viola were playing a flower-piano, they fly together in a frenzied pursuit, only to end in the burst of laughter of a chord which we know ahead of time can only be perfect.

Kamermuziek die de klankkleur van de altviool toont, zo teer en zo buitengewoon menselijk, is relatief schaars. De twee sonates Op. 120 van Johannes Brahms op dit album, elegant en zeer expressief, sublimeren de extreme gevoeligheid van de altviool met een eenvoud die alleen bereikt kan worden door perfecte beheersing van de muzikale compositie. De muziek van Brahms en Yuri Bashmets altviool zijn gemaakt om elkaar te ontmoeten. Yuri neemt ons mee in een wereld van diepgang, virtuositeit en esthetische vaardigheid, op bewonderenswaardige wijze begeleid door zijn dochter Ksenia Bashmet.

Alsof een vlinder-altviool een bloem-piano bespeelt, zo draaien ze onstuimig om elkaar heen, om uiteindelijk in een lachend akkoord uit te barsten, waarvan we al van tevoren weten dat het alleen maar perfect kan zijn.
Die Werke der Kammermusik, die das Klangbild der Viola zeigen, die so zart und zutiefst menschlich ist, sind relativ selten.
Brahms' zwei Sonaten, Op. 120, elegant und ausdrucksstark, sublimieren die extreme Sensibilität der Bratsche mit einer Einfachheit, die nur eine perfekte Beherrschung der musikalischen Komposition erreichen kann. Die Musik von Brahms und der Viola von Yuri Bashmet wurde so gestaltet, dass sie sich treffen. Bewundernswert begleitet von seiner Tochter Ksenia Bashmet entführt er uns in eine Welt der Tiefe, Virtuosität und Ästhetik.

Artist(s)

Yuri Bashmet (viola)

The name of Yuri Bashmet has long been a synonym for musical depth, virtuosity and aesthetic prowess. His artistic feats over the year are too great to be numbered, but one of his greatest accomplishments deserves particular attention: Yuri Bashmet has transformed the previously modest viola into a brilliant solo instrument in its own right.  He has played the viola in every work devoted to the instrument, and gone even further. His playing has broadened the field of possibilities for contemporary composers: a profusion of works, including fifty concertos for viola, have been especially composed for him or dedicated to him.  Bashmet was the first viola player in the world to perform a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York; the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam;...
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The name of Yuri Bashmet has long been a synonym for musical depth, virtuosity and aesthetic prowess. His artistic feats over the year are too great to be numbered, but one of his greatest accomplishments deserves particular attention: Yuri Bashmet has transformed the previously modest viola into a brilliant solo instrument in its own right.

He has played the viola in every work devoted to the instrument, and gone even further. His playing has broadened the field of possibilities for contemporary composers: a profusion of works, including fifty concertos for viola, have been especially composed for him or dedicated to him.

Bashmet was the first viola player in the world to perform a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York; the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; the Barbican Centre, London; both the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus, Berlin; La Scala, Milan: the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris; Hercules Hall, Munich; Boston Symphony Hall, the Suntory Hall, Tokyo; Symphony Centre, Chicago; the Calouste Galbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; and the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Bashmet has played with many internationally renowned conductors, such as Rafael Kubelík, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Seiji Ozawa, Valeri Guerguiev, Guennadi Rojdestvenski, Colin Davis, John Gardiner, Yehudi Menuhin, Charles Dutoit, Neville Marriner, Paul Sacher, Thomas Boaz Allen, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Simon Rattle, Yuri Temirkanov and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Bashmet began his musical career as a conductor in 1985, but in his new musical role has remained true to himself, confirming his reputation as an artist who is audacious, trenchant and resolutely modern. He has conducted the world’s finest symphonic orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the Вауrischen Rundfunk, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France.

Bashmet founded the International Viola Competition in Moscow, a competition that remains, to this day, the only one devoted to this instrument in Russia. This renowned viola player constantly makes international headlines in the realm of music, and his talent has been rewarded on countless occasions in both Russia and the rest of the world. Since 1983, when he was awarded the title of Artist Emeritus of the RSFSR, Bashmet has garnered titles and awards: winner of the State Prize of the USSR in 1986, People’s Artist of the USSR in 1991, and he also won the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1994, 1996 and 2001, and in 1993 was named instrumentalist of the year (the equivalent of an Oscar in the world of music). He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1995, he was awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in the world, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. In 1999, the French state appointed him Officier des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2003, he became a Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur. He is holds the most prestigious honour of the Republic of Lithuania, and in 2000, the President of Italy awarded him the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2002, the President of the Russia Federation gave him the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, third class. In 2013, Maestro Bashmet received the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, fourth class.

Yuri Bashmet is the artistic director of no fewer than fifteen music festivals in eight countries. In 2012, he founded his own symphonic orchestra in Russia. It performs worldwide to resounding success. Since 1978, he has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory, initially as a lecturer, before being appointed professor and dean of the faculty.


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Ksenia Bashmet (piano)

The Russian pianist Ksenia Bashmet was born in Moscow in 1980. She has appeared at many international festivals, including Verbier (Switzerland), Tanglewood (USA), Elba Island (Italy), December Nights (Moscow), Homecoming (Moscow), Ars Longa (Moscow), Young Stars of 21 century (Samara) and Chamber Music Connects the World (Kronberg, Germany). As a soloist she has appeared throughout Europe, the USA, Japan and Israel, at venues such as New Tokyo Opera City Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, Beethoven Halle and the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory.  
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The Russian pianist Ksenia Bashmet was born in Moscow in 1980. She has appeared at many international festivals, including Verbier (Switzerland), Tanglewood (USA), Elba Island (Italy), December Nights (Moscow), Homecoming (Moscow), Ars Longa (Moscow), Young Stars of 21 century (Samara) and Chamber Music Connects the World (Kronberg, Germany).
As a soloist she has appeared throughout Europe, the USA, Japan and Israel, at venues such as New Tokyo Opera City Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, Beethoven Halle and the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory.

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Composer(s)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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Press

Luister 10: Intensely melancholy, viola and piano alternate in the Allegro appassionato.
Luister, 18-5-2018

Sublime Brahms by Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti and father and daughter Bashmet on two new Evil Penguin and Fondamenta CDs.
Stretto, 10-3-2018

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