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Dark Velvet
Various composers

Julija Hartig

Dark Velvet

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917290622
Catnr: CC 72906
Release date: 08 July 2022
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Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917290622
Catalogue number
CC 72906
Release date
08 July 2022

"The works made for Hartig have diverse characters: the narrative intimacy is opposed to the experimental stretching of the violin sound. Every composer relates to her musicality in a different way."

NRC, 20-7-2022
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About the album

This CD can be seen as an autobiographical story. It is a reflection of my Yugoslav and Dutch identity described in 10 pieces by 8 composers. All of these pieces have their unique musical language and way of expressing thoughts and feelings. From pure honest most tender love to the unearthly sounds in search of answers. Some of them speak about deep sorrow of loss, passionate greed for love and life, brutally distorted decomposed beauty or simply pure wild untamed joy. One thing that is common to all of them is that they were written or arranged for me with a deep understanding of my way of playing which is always intense, honest and expressive. I love them all like my children and enjoy watching them grow. In addition to the selection of already composed music from 1990 on, three new works were written for me, especially as a part of this project.

Omdat de vader van Julija Hartig cellist en componist was, stond zij van jongs af aan dicht bij het creatieve proces en voelde zij zich daardoor nauw verweven met de composities voor haar instrument, de viool. Later in haar leven bleef ze een diepe connectie voelen met componisten en dat stimuleerde haar nieuwsgierigheid en passie voor de taal van nieuwe muziek. Door deze wederzijdse inspiratie ontstonden verschillende stukken, speciaal voor Hartig geschreven of gearrangeerd. Dit album is daarom een autobiografisch verhaal. Het is een weerspiegeling van Julija Hartigs Joegoslavische en Nederlandse identiteit beschreven in 10 stukken van 8 componisten.

Het levert een gevarieerd album op met één rode draad: Julija Hartig. Naast de werken die sinds 1990 voor de violiste zijn gecomponeerd, werden speciaal voor dit project drie nieuwe werken (wereldpremière-opnames) voor haar geschreven. Alle werken hebben hun unieke muzikale taal van pure oprechte tedere liefde tot onaardse klanken. Sommige werken gaan over diep verdriet van verlies, hartstochtelijke hebzucht naar liefde en leven, andere over vergane schoonheid of gewoon pure wilde ongetemde vreugde.

Julija Hartig groeide op in Servië waar zij in contact kwam met verschillende componisten. Met haar vader Tibor Hartig, solo cellist van het Servisch Nationaal Theater, Philharmonisch en Kamerorkest Novi Sad, speelde zij vaak samen. Zijn composities zijn de eerste kennismaking met het proces van componeren, een proces dat soms ontstond uit improvisatie en samenspelen. ‘Dialog’ voor viool en cello is het resultaat van één van deze improvisatie sessies. Op dit album uitgevoerd door de Servische celliste Maja Bogdanović. In 1993 schreef Tiborg Hartig voor zijn dochters eindexamen ‘Monolog’ for solo viool, als onderdeel van het recital programma.

Isidora Žebeljan (1967-2020), is één van de meest uitgevoerde, vooraanstaande en internationaal geprezen Servische componisten en was een dierbare vriendin van Julija Hartig. In 2011 maakte zij een transcriptie van haar lied ‘Oh, Die, My Love’, voor stem (gezongen door Hartig tijdens het spelen), viool en piano. In haar kindertijd leert Julija Hartig Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970) kennen. Vrebalov schreef in haar leven 90 werken. Ter ere van hun geboortestad Novi Sad (culturele hoofdstad van Europa in 2022) schreef zij een nieuw stuk voor viool en piano ‘Constellation Hartig’.
Diese CD kann als eine autobiografische Entwicklung betrachtet werden. Sie ist eine Reflexion meiner jugoslawischen und niederländischen Identität, beschrieben in 10 Stücken von 8 Komponisten. Alle diese Stücke haben ihre eigene musikalische Sprache und Art, Gedanken und Gefühle auszudrücken. Von der reinen, ehrlichen und zärtlichen Liebe bis hin zu den unheimlichen Klängen auf der Suche nach Antworten. Einige von ihnen sprechen von tiefer Trauer über Verlust, leidenschaftlicher Gier nach Liebe und Leben, brutal verzerrter, zersetzter Schönheit oder einfach nur wilder, ungezähmter Freude. Allen gemeinsam ist, dass sie für mich geschrieben oder arrangiert wurden, mit einem tiefen Verständnis für meine Art zu spielen, die immer intensiv, ehrlich und ausdrucksstark ist. Ich liebe sie alle wie meine Kinder und genieße es, sie wachsen zu sehen. Zusätzlich zu der Auswahl an bereits komponierter Musik ab 1990 wurden drei neue Werke speziell für mich als Teil dieses Projekts geschrieben.

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Julija Hartig (violin)

Julija Hartig, was born in Yugoslavia to a family of musicians and started her violin education at age 5. After finishing her violin studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia), she was engaged as an assistant professor in the class of her former teacher Evgenia Tchugaeva at the same conservatory. Since 1994, she has lived in the Netherlands, where she studied at the conservatory of Rotterdam with professor Ilya Grubert and in Utrecht with professor Keiko Wataya. As a soloist, she has performed with various orchestras such as Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Brabants Chamber Orchestra, St. Georges Strings, Belgrade Strings, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Serbia. Julija is a member of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and various chamber music ensembles...
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Julija Hartig, was born in Yugoslavia to a family of musicians and started her violin education at age 5. After finishing her violin studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia), she was engaged as an assistant professor in the class of her former teacher Evgenia Tchugaeva at the same conservatory.
Since 1994, she has lived in the Netherlands, where she studied at the conservatory of Rotterdam with professor Ilya Grubert and in Utrecht with professor Keiko Wataya.
As a soloist, she has performed with various orchestras such as Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Brabants Chamber Orchestra, St. Georges Strings, Belgrade Strings, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Serbia.
Julija is a member of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and various chamber music ensembles including Duo Hartig-Broekhans, ROctet, The Hungry Gods, Ensemble REI. She is one of the founding members of podium SPLENDOR Amsterdam and one of the initiators of the collective LUDWIG.
Julija’s repertoire includes pieces from baroque to contemporary music. Her interpretations are characterised by a great expressivity and temperament, refined technique and a warm sensitivity for colour. Her exciting way of playing has often led to mutually inspirational collaborations with contemporary composers. Several pieces have been written for and premiered by her.
Julija Hartig plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin “ex-Zimmermann”, which is a part of the Duch National Musical Instrument Foundation.

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Calliope Tsoupaki

Calliope Tsoupaki was born in 1963 in Piraeus, Greece. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to study composition with her idol Louis Andriessen. She has grown into one of the most talked-about composers in that country.  Calliope Tsoupaki makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East. Combining these aspects, she skillfully creates a completely personal style.  Her music is praised for its melodic character, warm sound and emotional quality. To date her oeuvre consists of more than 100 works for diverse instrumentation and instruments from different cultures (qaunun, ney,...
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Calliope Tsoupaki was born in 1963 in Piraeus, Greece. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to study composition with her idol Louis Andriessen. She has grown into one of the most talked-about composers in that country. Calliope Tsoupaki makes music that has a mood of timelessness. Her objective is expressing the essence as simply and clearly as possible. In her compositions she uses elements of early and contemporary music as well as the music of Greece and the Middle East. Combining these aspects, she skillfully creates a completely personal style. Her music is praised for its melodic character, warm sound and emotional quality. To date her oeuvre consists of more than 100 works for diverse instrumentation and instruments from different cultures (qaunun, ney, kemençe, hurdy gurdy, vielle, viola da gamba), from solo to orchestral works, choral music, dance, theatre, opera and multisensory projects. She has developed into one of the defining composers of Dutch musical life, collaborating with, among others, Eric Vloeimans, Pierre Audi, Paul Koek, Jordi Savall, Kees Boeke, Frances-Marie Uitti and ensembles including the Metropole Orchestra, Netherlands Bach Society, Ensemble Tetraktys, Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Nieuw Amsterdams Peil, Ergon Ensemble and Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Overwhelming successes include her operas Fortress Europe and Mariken in the Garden of Delights, St. Luke Passion, song cycle Face of Love for singer Nena Venetsanou, oratorio Oidipous, Narcissus (a play for music and scent), Maria for the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the chamber operas Dark (about Joan of Arc, libretto Edzard Mik), Vita Nova (based on Dante's book of the same title) and the string quartet Triptychon for the DoelenKwartet.
Calliope Tsoupaki teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

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Press

The works made for Hartig have diverse characters: the narrative intimacy is opposed to the experimental stretching of the violin sound. Every composer relates to her musicality in a different way.
NRC, 20-7-2022

For an album, Hartig navigates passionately between noise and colour.
Volkskrant, 20-7-2022

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