The album features bartoks violin concerto no 2, ligetis violin concerto and the world premiere of peter eotvoss seven, performed with. Peter eotvos, bela bartok, gyorgy ligeti, frankfurt radio symphony. Patricia kopatchinskaja music, videos, stats, and photos. The lovely melody that forms the basis of the second movement, for example, is taken directly from the earlier piano work or the arrangement he made for wind quintet in the six bagatelles. Her first visit to ojai was in april 2016 as a guest on. Patricia kopatchinskaja wins gramophone recording of the year. Kopatchinskaja say by patricia kopatchinskaja on spotify. Patricia kopatchinskaja plays bartok, eotvos, ligeti. While this measure makes it impossible to hold concerts in the gstaad festival tent, the pandemic is also having an impact on the other concerts planned in the magnificent churches in the saanenland and paysdenhaut. The culmination of this concert with sir simon rattle is gustav mahlers fourth symphony which stands out from the monumental works of the composer through its sunny disposition. Peter eotvos, bela bartok, gyorgy ligeti, frankfurt radio symphony orchestra, patricia kopatchinskaja, ensemble modern bartok eotvos ligeti music. Patricia kopatchinskaja violin concertos naive v 5285 lw. The mysterious, expressionistic miniatures of arnold schoenbergs pierrot lunaire cycle are perfect for a late night concert.
Cadenza patricia kopatchinskajacomposed by gyorgy ligetiorchestra. Patricia kopatchinskaja directs her first ojai festival. She has also played contemporary music and has given at least a dozen world premieres. This performance alone is worth the price of the two cds. Patricia kopatchinskaja is an intense and versatile violinist and has d an international career as a concert artist since many years. Patricia kopatchinskaja born 1977 is a moldovanaustrianswiss violinist. Violinist patricia kopatchinskajas versatility shows itself in her diverse repertoire, ranging from baroque and classical often played on gut strings, to new commissions and reinterpretations of modern masterworks. Composed by peter eotvosorchestra frankfurt radio symphony orchestra. Welcome patricia kopatchinskaja november 2023, 2014.
Constantly characterised and slightly demeaned as a quirky maverick, kopatchinskaja proved here that shes in a class of. Her latest release death and the maiden, for alpha with the saint paul chamber orchestra has received great critical acclaim. Kopatchinskaja plays some bartok pieces and an attractive piece by the pianist fazil say. Works like his atmospheres or his requiem are constructed in a way that ligeti referred to as micropolyphony. Three concertos from this issues diarist kopatchinskaja. Patricia kopatchinskaja in a little night music the new. The fivemovement version of this work, performed here is considered the definitive version that the. When tom morris, the director of the ojai music festival in southern california, tapped patricia kopatchinskaja to curate this years festival, the visionary moldovanborn violinist didnt. Violinist kopatchinskaja brings inventive programming to. Official website of patricia kopatchinskaja, musician and. Bartok violin concerto no 2 ligeti violin concerto gramophone. Third cadenza patricia kopatchinskajafrankfurt radio symphony orchestra.
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And anyway, since the middle ages the violin has had a forbidden. The concert also includes waltzes by johann strauss ii in arrangements by arnold schoenberg and anton webern. The violin concerto is hardly traditional in its approach but actually owes more to bartok than to his own earlier work. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Born in sovietcontrolled moldova to parents emilia violinist and viktor cimbalom player the family emigrated to vienna in 1989 to escape rough economic conditions kopatchinskaja picked up the violin at the age of six and is now widely considered the worlds most exciting violinist. Both were composed within five years of each other but could hardly be more different. Patricia kopatchinskaja violin, frankfurt radio symphony orchestra, ensemble. Between bartok, ligeti, eotvos and kopatchinskaja, there are many links.
Patricia kopatchinskaja, peter eotvos bartok, eotvos, ligeti en. The importance of the orchestral contribution cant be denied, however, and theres an impressive sense of common purpose and collaborative zeal throughout. Take two, an album by patricia kopatchinskaja on spotify. Patr kopatchinskaja bartok eotvos ligeti jetzt kaufen. Kopatchinskaja is here required to accompany herself at one point by singing, which in this context seems like a consummation of her desire to inhabit both the inner and outer musical worlds. Therefore we start with bartok s divertimento, and then go on with the devilish soldiers tale by stravinsky who, like ligeti, was a master of grotesque mimicry and disguise in music.
The studio is her friend now some, even her friend and. Patricia kopatchinskaja has constructed a programme entitled time and eternity around the masterpiece which is concerto funebre by karlamadeus hartmann, written in 1939 as an act of resistance against the nazi regime. Armenian composer tigran mansurian composed his violin concerto no. Beethoven ravel bartok say the future belongs to her. Six hundred years of music to make the victims voices heard, says patricia kopatchinskaja. The wonderful violinist patricia kopatchinskaja, who enjoys the experimental, recites the poems that underlie the work. The ligeti inhabits a different soundworld altogether, yet seems to develop some of the themes which have already been established in the first two works. The album opens with kol nidrei by john zorn born 1953, in response to the eponymous prayer spoken by a representative of the jewish community. Utterly fresh in her approach, she imagined it as a surreal psychodrama without words, volcanic in its outbursts, startling in its juxtapositions. Ligeti left the final cadenza up to the soloist and kopatchinskaja uses material discarded from the first version of the piece in a very original, slightly crazy way.
The official youtube channel of violinist patricia kopatchinskaja. Music awards category concerto for the double cd with violin concertos by bartok, ligeti and eotvos. Patricia kopatchinskaja performs these three concertos by composers born in hungary with her trademark panache and the recorded balance gives her all due prominence. Bartok eotvos ligeti patricia kopatchinskaja, frankfurt radio.
For kopatchinskaja, ligetis violin concerto is the best violin concerto after beethoven. It was into this intensely musical family that patricia kopatchinskaja was born in 1977, in chi. The ravel, in particular, suffers from says vocalizations and tampering inside the piano. In 2008, a prizewinning young violinist from moldova made a recording of violin sonatas with the unconventional turkish pianist and composer fazil say. Violinist patricia kopatchinskaja is an unusually versatile musician, active in both mainstream repertory and the historical performance scene. Peter eotvos 1946 seven world premiere recording cd 2. Peter eotvos, bela bartok, gyorgy ligeti, frankfurt radio symphony orchestra, patricia kopatchinskaja, ensemble modern bartok eotvos ligeti amazon. Bartok violin concerto no 2 ligeti violin concerto. At the age of six she began playing the violin, inspired by the fact. Yet this magic and eccentric disc is one of my favorite purchases from 20. Its very different from the second concerto, described below. This concerto is included in the first cd above, played by isabelle faust, accompanied by daniel harding and the swedish radio. The other two works featured here are no less compelling.
Incidental music to king lear live at symphony hall. With the bern camerata of which she is the artistic director she blazes a bright trail of memory with her violin. She studied composition and violin in vienna and bern. Bartok, eotvos, ligeti patricia kopatchinskaja, peter eotvos songs. And there is an atmospheric account of the ravel sonata. An embarrassment of riches here its hard to know where to start. Quasi parlando kopatchinskaja, lechner, thompson, amsterdam sinfonietta label.
Patricia kopatchinskaja was born in moldova to musician parents. So it was a privilege to hear the superb violinist patricia kopatchinskaja, born in moldova in 1977, play the bartok sonata and the great chaconne from bachs partita no. Patricia kopatchinskaja is the latest phenomenon in the galaxy of young violinists who seem to excel at everything they undertake. Kopatchinskaja was born in chisinau, then in the moldavian socialist republic of the soviet union, in 1977.