Beethoven's 'Violin Concerto' as Ludwig intended
By Zhang Qian |
March 25, 2012, Sunday
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BEETHOVEN'S "Violin Concerto," often considered the greatest of the world's four great violin concertos, will be performed with authentic period instruments by Switzerland's Basel Chamber Orchestra and Russian violinist Victoria Mullova at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center on April 7.
The concert, conducted by Giovanni Antonini, will conclude the center's yearlong series, presenting the four masterpiece violin concertos by major orchestras, including those by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
In addition to the "Violin Concerto in D Major," created in 1806, the Basel orchestra will also perform Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture and "Symphony No. 7," as well as Rudolf Kelterborn's "Four Movements for Classical Orchestra" (1997).
Beethoven's "Violin Concerto" is often considered the most brilliant of the four famous concertos. Its structure is challenging and it requires great technical skill and strength. Mullova will play her Stradivarius violin made in 1790.
Founded in 1984, Basel Chamber Orchestra is widely recognized for its interpretation of classical works, using authentic period instruments, or exact reproductions, performed in the manner of the times.
The aim is to recreate the music as it was originally performed.
Basel's recording of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 3" and "Symphony No. 4" conducted by Antonini won the Echo-Klassic Prize in 2008.
Authentic performances are possible because today there is a vast amount of knowledge about music of the past.
"We have instruments from the past and we know how to handle and copy them," says Antonini. "We also know a vast amount about the ways of playing, techniques, forms of articulation, musical rhetoric and other stylistic aspects thanks to many musicologists, tinkerers and researchers, which is the more crucial issue."
A number of ensembles specialize in reproducing the same musical sound heard in the past, often in smaller venues for chamber orchestras. Traditional symphony orchestras have also taken note of this aspect of authenticity in the past 20 years, especially in the music of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach.
"This has developed a so-called third direction between traditional and historic methods of playing, and that's what we're nurturing in Basel," says Antonini. "We use historic trumpets and timbals, cultivate certain technique-related possibilities for the strings, and approach the works in a different way in terms of musicality and rhetoric. It's a third path, which is equally legitimate and is not mutually exclusive (from typical classical performance)."
The upcoming concert will feature original period instruments to display the sound Beethoven intended.
Date: April 7, 7:30pm
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang Rd, Pudong
Tickets: 180-1,280 yuan (US$28.57-203.17)
Tel: 962-388
The concert, conducted by Giovanni Antonini, will conclude the center's yearlong series, presenting the four masterpiece violin concertos by major orchestras, including those by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
In addition to the "Violin Concerto in D Major," created in 1806, the Basel orchestra will also perform Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture and "Symphony No. 7," as well as Rudolf Kelterborn's "Four Movements for Classical Orchestra" (1997).
Beethoven's "Violin Concerto" is often considered the most brilliant of the four famous concertos. Its structure is challenging and it requires great technical skill and strength. Mullova will play her Stradivarius violin made in 1790.
Founded in 1984, Basel Chamber Orchestra is widely recognized for its interpretation of classical works, using authentic period instruments, or exact reproductions, performed in the manner of the times.
The aim is to recreate the music as it was originally performed.
Basel's recording of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 3" and "Symphony No. 4" conducted by Antonini won the Echo-Klassic Prize in 2008.
Authentic performances are possible because today there is a vast amount of knowledge about music of the past.
"We have instruments from the past and we know how to handle and copy them," says Antonini. "We also know a vast amount about the ways of playing, techniques, forms of articulation, musical rhetoric and other stylistic aspects thanks to many musicologists, tinkerers and researchers, which is the more crucial issue."
A number of ensembles specialize in reproducing the same musical sound heard in the past, often in smaller venues for chamber orchestras. Traditional symphony orchestras have also taken note of this aspect of authenticity in the past 20 years, especially in the music of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach.
"This has developed a so-called third direction between traditional and historic methods of playing, and that's what we're nurturing in Basel," says Antonini. "We use historic trumpets and timbals, cultivate certain technique-related possibilities for the strings, and approach the works in a different way in terms of musicality and rhetoric. It's a third path, which is equally legitimate and is not mutually exclusive (from typical classical performance)."
The upcoming concert will feature original period instruments to display the sound Beethoven intended.
Date: April 7, 7:30pm
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center, 425 Dingxiang Rd, Pudong
Tickets: 180-1,280 yuan (US$28.57-203.17)
Tel: 962-388
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