Schubert Trouts by Avenhaus | Neudauer | Ishizaka | Stotijn

Franz Schubert, Ferrant Cruixent

Avenhaus | Neudauer | Ishizaka | Stotijn | Zheng

Schubert Trouts

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085534081
Catnr: AVI 8553408
Release date: 02 November 2018
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Label
CAvi

UPC
4260085534081

Catalogue number
AVI 8553408

Release date
02 November 2018

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About the album

Five contemporary Variations onSchubert’s TROUT QUINTET A singular project

Silke Avenhaus had wanted to record Schubert’s Trout Quintet for a long time. Now five European composers were additionally asked to quasi-casually prolong Schubert’s ambivalences into the present by supplying their own variations. The commission called for works that were to be limited in length, and each composer was asked to focus his attention on a particular instrument. Although all of their pieces are based on the Trout theme, the resulting works vary utterly in terms of character and tempo. As Avenhaus puts it, this is a “godsend”. The new compositions can be grasped as individual movements of a contemporary Trout quintet,but one can also combine them in several different ways.

Is this a “sunny piece”? Cheerful? Carelessly babbling like a brook? It tends to be exclusively associated with positive images, but pianist Silke Avenhaus, the initiator of the “Trout Project”, contrasts all of this with the work’s fundamental ambivalence. In Schubert’s quintet she finds a mixture of lightness and melancholy. The first movement’s insouciance, for instance, is almost casually obliterated in the second one. Schubert does not hold
fast to any mood or attitude for long: ambivalence continues to hold sway, and it is a trait she particularly appreciates.

The double bass and the cello form a strong bass section in this particular piano quintet. The line-up may have been unusual and difficult to score in terms of timbre, but Schubert skillfully made best of the situation by expanding the range of different sonorities to the maximum. The low strings fathom the underground. Conversely, the piano, often playing in octaves for long stretches in the upper range, carries out the assigned role of shining brightly on the mountain peaks. The middle range is tenderly filled out by the other strings. The resulting musical texture seems to float in midair. (from the lines notes by Elgin Heuerding)

Artist(s)

Silke Avenhaus (piano)

Sensitivity, creativity, profound emotion, a sense of structure, and the joy of discovery: these are the traits singled out by music critics in praise of pianist Silke Avenhaus for her international concert appearances and over 30 CD productions in which she has participated. She is regularly invited to appear at the most important European music festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, the Ruhr Piano Festival, and the Pablo Casals Festival, as well as the Marlboro Music Festival (USA). In chamber music she has partnered with an outstanding roster of European colleagues. Born in Karlsruhe, she studied with professors Bianca Bodalia and Klaus Schilde (Munich), György Sebök (Indiana), Sandor Végh, and András Schiff. She has been appointed Honorary Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, and is engaged...

Sensitivity, creativity, profound emotion, a sense of structure, and the joy of discovery: these are the traits singled out by music critics in praise of pianist Silke Avenhaus for her international concert appearances and over 30 CD productions in which she has participated. She is regularly invited to appear at the most important European music festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, the Ruhr Piano Festival, and the Pablo Casals Festival, as well as the Marlboro Music Festival (USA). In chamber music she has partnered with an outstanding roster of European colleagues.
Born in Karlsruhe, she studied with professors Bianca Bodalia and Klaus Schilde (Munich), György Sebök (Indiana), Sandor Végh, and András Schiff. She has been appointed Honorary Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, and is engaged in projects including Rhapsody in School, Sounds and Science (a series of which she is co-founder, held at Vienna Konzerthaus), and Artists for a Better Future (a circle of artists who support social projects worldwide).

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Rick Stotijn (double bass)

Rick Stotijn is held in high esteem as one of the leading bass players worldwide. He received his first lessons at the age of eight and went on to study at the Conservatory in Amsterdam with his father Peter Stotijn, where he graduated with the highest distinction. He subsequently studied with Božo Paradžik at the Hochschule in Freiburg. Rick has won several First Prizes: at the Princess Christina Competition, at the Dutch Young Musical Talent Foundation, and in 2013, the highest accolade awarded to a musician in the Netherlands: the Dutch Music Prize. Many solo appearances at home and abroad were soon to follow. Rick Stotijn performs regularly as soloist with orchestras from Sweden, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and others. Next to new music he enjoys chamber...

Rick Stotijn is held in high esteem as one of the leading bass players worldwide. He received his first lessons at the age of eight and went on to study at the Conservatory in Amsterdam with his father Peter Stotijn, where he graduated with the highest distinction. He subsequently studied with Božo Paradžik at the Hochschule in Freiburg. Rick has won several First Prizes: at the Princess Christina Competition, at the Dutch Young Musical Talent Foundation, and in 2013, the highest accolade awarded to a musician in the Netherlands: the Dutch Music Prize. Many solo appearances at home and abroad were soon to follow. Rick Stotijn performs regularly as soloist with orchestras from Sweden, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and others. Next to new music he enjoys chamber music working with Janine Jansen, Christianne Stotijn, Liza Ferschtman, Robert Holl, Mischa Maisky, Julius Drake, Vilde Frang, Amihai Grosz, Julian Rachlin, and many others. Two CDs were released in 2012 and 2014. He plays a Raffaele & Antonio Gagliano double bass, on loan from the Dutch National Musical Instrument Foundation.

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Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

After receiving First Prize at both the ARD Competition and the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann, Danjulo Ishizaka is ranked among the most outstanding cellists of his generation. He studied with Boris Pergamenschikow and Tabea Zimmermann and gave his first recital at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall at the age of 17, followed by further débuts, including Carnegie Hall (2006). In 2012 he was awarded Japan’s most outstanding music prize, the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award. His CD recordings have been selected for the coveted German Echo Klassik Prize as well as the Gramophone Award. Danjulo Ishizaka is a welcome guest at a multitude of renowned festivals; as a soloist, he performs worldwide with leading orchestras from London, Vienna, Tokyo, Detroit, and with conductors of the likes of Christoph Eschenbach,...

After receiving First Prize at both the ARD Competition and the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann, Danjulo Ishizaka is ranked among the most outstanding cellists of his generation. He studied with Boris Pergamenschikow and Tabea Zimmermann and gave his first recital at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall at the age of 17, followed by further débuts, including Carnegie Hall (2006). In 2012 he was awarded Japan’s most outstanding music prize, the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award. His CD recordings have been selected for the coveted German Echo Klassik Prize as well as the Gramophone Award. Danjulo Ishizaka is a welcome guest at a multitude of renowned festivals; as a soloist, he performs worldwide with leading orchestras from London, Vienna, Tokyo, Detroit, and with conductors of the likes of Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Jurowski, Michael Sanderling, and Leonard Slatkin. One of the instruments he plays is the Stradivarius cello “Feuermann” (1730), on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. Danjulo is Cello Professor at Basel Music Academy and Berlin University of the Arts.

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Lena Neudauer (violin)

Lena Neudauer started playing the violin when she was three years old. At the age of eleven she entered the class of Helmut Zehetmair at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and went on to study with Christoph Poppen and Thomas Zehetmair. When she was fifteen, she scored a spectacular triumph at the Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg, winning not only First Prize, but almost all the Special Prizes. In 2010, on the Hänssler Classic label, she released her first CD, featuring Schumann, which received the International Classical Music Award (ICMA). CDs by Mozart concertos, chamber music by Ravel and Mendelssohn followed. On an international scale, she has appeared in festivals and performed with conductors of the likes of Dennis Russell Davies, Mariss Jansons, Reinhard Goebel, and Bruno Weil. In 2010,...

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Wen Xiao Zheng (viola)

Violist Wen Xiao Zheng was born in Shanghai and studied with Gérard Caussé (Madrid), with Diemut Poppen (Detmold) and Hariolf schlichtig (Munich), while attending masterclasses with Yuri Bashmet und Paul Neubauer. In 2009 he concluded his studies with an additional degree in chamber music. Zheng won First Prizes at the National Viola Competition in China, at the Ciudad de Xátiva competition (Spain), the Lionel Tertis Viola Competition (UK), the Llanes Viola Competition (Spain), the Yuri Bashmet Viola Competition (Moscow) and, in 2008, a 2nd Prize at the renowned ARD International Music Competition in Munich (First Prize not awarded). In 2009, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben awarded him a viola built by P. A. Testore, and in 2010 one by Haiko Seifert (Plauen). Wen Xiao Zheng has performed as...

Violist Wen Xiao Zheng was born in Shanghai and studied with Gérard Caussé (Madrid), with Diemut Poppen (Detmold) and Hariolf schlichtig (Munich), while attending masterclasses with Yuri Bashmet und Paul Neubauer. In 2009 he concluded his studies with an additional degree in chamber music. Zheng won First Prizes at the National Viola Competition in China, at the Ciudad de Xátiva competition (Spain), the Lionel Tertis Viola Competition (UK), the Llanes Viola Competition (Spain), the Yuri Bashmet Viola Competition (Moscow) and, in 2008, a 2nd Prize at the renowned ARD International Music Competition in Munich (First Prize not awarded). In 2009, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben awarded him a viola built by P. A. Testore, and in 2010 one by Haiko Seifert (Plauen). Wen Xiao Zheng has performed as a soloist with major orchestras and is widely active as a chamber musician. In 2010 Zheng became Principal Violist of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, then in 2014 of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich. In 2017 he started teaching at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts.

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Composer(s)

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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