Poème - Works for violin & piano by Lisa Jacobs / Ksenia Kouzmenko

César Franck, Eugène Ysaÿe

Lisa Jacobs / Ksenia Kouzmenko

Poème - Works for violin & piano

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Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917262407
Catnr: CC 72624
Release date: 29 November 2013
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Label
Challenge Classics

UPC
0608917262407

Catalogue number
CC 72624

Release date
29 November 2013

""It seemed effortless. In this concert she let her violin sing and dance at the same time and put her engaging and demanding game to bind her public note for nice.""

Leeuwarder Courant, 05-2-2016

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About the album

The violin works on this CD have a particularly relation to each other. The CD opens with Ysaÿe’s Poème Elégiaque op. 12: the name is derived from the middle section of the piece, which depicts a passing funeral procession accompanied by tolling bells. It was ultimately also played at Ysaÿe’s own funeral. Extase op. 21 reveals the expressivity and depth of his sound idiom, once again demonstrating his tone-painting ability. The CD concludes with César Franck’s Sonata in A major which was composed as a wedding present for Eugène Ysaye. The young violinist Lisa Jacobs has performed these works in many of her concerts, since she was acquainted to those at the age of sixteen.

Dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs started playing the violin at the age of 6. She was accepted in the Young Talent class of the Utrecht Conservatory and continued studying with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, At the age of only 17, Lisa made her successful debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Chailly.

Lisa Jacobs has won several first prizes in both national and international competitions, one of them being at the 2nd International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition in Lithuania 2005, where she received the Audience prize as well. Lisa has followed masterclasses with Thomas Brandis, Julian Rachlin, Philip Graffin and Maxim Vengerov, which was broadcasted on Dutch television.

Fantastische rijke muziek die emoties oproept, uitgevoerd door jonge virtuoze violiste
Violiste Lisa Jacobs en pianiste Ksenia Kouzmenko spelen in deze opname werken voor viool en piano van Eugène Ysaÿe en César Franck. "Moeiteloos leek het. In dit concert liet ze haar viool zingen en dansen tegelijk en zette haar innemende en veeleisende spel in om haar publiek noot voor noot aan zich te binden." Leeuwarder Courant, februari 2016.

Lisa Jacobs: "Muziek is voor mij een oneindige wereld van klank, kleur, gevoelens en verlangen, mysterieus maar tegelijkertijd ook zo vanzelfsprekend oprecht." Net 16 jaar oud maakte Lisa voor het eerst kennis met de solowerken van de Belgische componist en violist Eugène Ysaÿe. Ze was op slag betoverd door zijn ongelooflijk rijke en sprookjesachtige muziek. Eenmaal in de ban van het kleurenpalet, dat Ysaÿe uit de viool weet te toveren en zijn virtuositeit, ging ze op zoek naar meer. Zo leerde ze de Poèmes voor viool en orkest kennen en was ze verkocht. Ze hoefde dan ook niet lang na te denken over het repertoire voor haar eerste album.

De stukken op dit album zijn op een bijzondere manier met elkaar verbonden. De naam van Ysaÿes Poème Elégiaque op. 12 verwijst naar het middendeel, waarin een rouwprocessie begeleid door klokkenspel voorbijkomt. Het stuk werd uiteindelijk ook bij zijn eigen uitvaart gespeeld. Extase op. 21 toont de diepte en expressiviteit van Ysaÿes klankwereld, en laat horen hoe goed hij kon schilderen met klanken. César Franck bood zijn Sonate in A groot aan, als huwelijksgeschenk voor Ysaÿe. Ysaÿe nam dit werk tot aan zijn dood op in zijn concerten, het is onlosmakelijk met hem verbonden.

Lisa Jacobs leerde op haar zesde al viool spelen, en debuteerde bij het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest toen ze pas zeventien jaar was. Ze won talrijke eerste prijzen bij wedstrijden in binnen- en buitenland en volgde masterclasses bij beroemde violisten en pedagogen. Als soliste treedt ze op met vele orkesten en gerenommeerde dirigenten, waarbij ze steevast door zowel het publiek als de pers juichend wordt ontvangen.

Ksenia Kouzmenko (Minsk, Wit-Rusland) is de dochter van een pianistenechtpaar. Ze studeerde af aan de Nationale Muziekacademie van Wit-Rusland en ging naar Den Haag, waar ze les kreeg van Naum Grubert. Dankzij beurzen kon ze bij vele gelouterde pianisten les nemen. Sinds 2008 vormt ze een duo met de violiste Lisa Jacobs. In de woorden van het juryrapport van het Trompconcours, waar ze de tweede prijs won: "Ksenia Kouzmenko is een overtuigend performer, bij wie het elegante gebaar steeds in dienst staat van de muziek. Zij durft risico’s te nemen en sleept de luisteraar mee op haar muzikale ontdekkingstochten”.

Im Alter von 6 Jahren begann Lisa Jacobs Geige zu spielen und wurde schon bald Schülerin am Utrechter Konservatorium in der Klasse “Junge Talente”. Später studierte sie bei Ilya Grubert in Amsterdam. Mit nur 17 Jahren debütierte die Niederländerin beim Königlichen Concertgebouw Orchestra unter der Leitung von Riccardo Chailly.

Lisa Jacobs hat zahlreiche erste Preise bei nationalen und internationalen Wettbewerben gewonnen, darunter beim zweiten Internationalen Jascha Heifetz Geigenwettbewerb in Litauen 2005, wo sie ausserdem den Zuhörer-Preis errang. Lisa besuchte Meisterklassen unter anderem bei Thomas Brandis, Julian Rachlin, Philip Graffin and Maxim Vengerov, die auch vom niederländischen Fernsehen aufgezeichnet wurden.

Zu den Werken von Ysaÿe und Franck, ihrer ersten Einspielung bei Challenge Classics, hat Lisa Jacobs ein besonders enges Verhältnis. Sie war erst sechzehn, als sie zum ersten Mal die Solowerke des belgischen Komponisten Eugène Ysaÿe hörte. Seine unglaublich dichte und berührende Musik beeindruckt die junge Geigerin, die sich von da an immer wieder den Werken Ysaÿes widmete.

Lisa Jacobs spielt die beiden Poèmes in einer Fassung für Violine und Klavier und ergänzt sie durch die Sonate in A-Dur von César Franck, der dieses Werk Eugène Ysaÿe zur Hochzeit schenkte.

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Lisa Jacobs (violin)

‘Musical mastery of this calibre is rarely heard’ (Dutch Telegraph) Dutch violin virtuoso Lisa Jacobs started playing the violin at the age of 6. She was accepted in the Young Talent class of the Utrecht Conservatory by Joyce Tan at only eight years old. She continued studying with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where she has graduated cum laude and with the highest distinction for both her bachelor in 2006 and master-studies June 2009, at which occasion the jury spoke that they ‘were short on superlatives to praise her superb playing’. She also took lessons with Christoph Poppen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich where she studied for her Konzertexam, which she succesfully finished June 2009. This has been supported by the foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.
At the age of only 17, Lisa made her successful debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. She has played several times in all the major concert halls of the Netherlands and all around the world ever since, both as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors, as a recitalist with her pianist Ksenia Kouzmenko and at chamber music festivals, always to highly critical acclaim, receiving brilliant reviews and finding ecstatic audiences. She receives much attention in both national and international media, with live radio concerts, television broadcasts and interviews. Lisa has won several first prizes in both national and international competitions, one of them being at the 2nd International Jascha Heifetz Violin Competition in Lithuania 2005, where she received the Audience prize as well.
Lisa has followed masterclasses with Thomas Brandis, Julian Rachlin, Sylvie Gazeau, Herman Krebbers, David Takeno, Nelli Shkollnikova, Philip Graffin and Maxim Vengerov, which was broadcasted on Dutch television. She collaborated with amongst others Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Holland Symfonia, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kiev State Symphony Orchestra, Georgian Sinfonietta, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica de Juanaguato Mexico, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzesse, Sinfonia Rotterdam, Residentie Orchestra, Joensuu City Orchestra and respected conductors such as Neeme Järvi, Jurjen Hempel Massimo Quarta, Conrad van Alphen, Dirk Brossé, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Juozas Domarkas, Jan Willem de Vriend, Carlos Miguel Prieto and Toby Hoffman.
She plays a Rugieri violin from 1683, given to her on loan by a private person for which she is very grateful. This years engagements include concerts with the Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and Mozart concertos, including concert tours to Slovenia, Italy, Georgia and Germany.

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Ksenia Kouzmenko (piano)

Composer(s)

César Franck

César Franck was simultaneously a child prodigy and a late bloomer. His parents quickly discovered his enormous talent, but they were mostly interested in the money and fame that he might generate. Because of this, he was presented as a piano virtuoso, without a focus on composition. Unfortunately, his virtuoso career was less promising then they had hoped, and he started earning his money more as a teacher and organist. Composing stayed in the background, but in the mean time he did get some notable students, such as Henri Duparc. After a while, a sort of "Franck school" of students arose, albeit against his will, who affectionately called him ‘Pater seraphicus’. It was not until he was 50 before he started to receive some acclaim as a composer, and from his 52nd he started a very prolific period, lasting until his death at the age of 68.
Nowadays, Franck is mostly known for his instrumental music, peaking at the famous Violin Sonata in A. Besides this work,, his small collection of organ works was particularly influential.

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Eugène Ysaÿe

Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist and composer. He received his first violin lessons from his father at the age of five. At seven years old, he already gave his first public concert. However, it didn't go as his father would have liked it. Eugène didn't try his hardest and at one moment the Conservatory of Liège even refuse to take him because of his bad performance. In 1873, he received 12 lessons from Henryk Wieniawski. Since he admired Wieniawski so much, these lessons had an enormous impact on his career. In 1880, he became the concert master for one year of the Bilse Orchestra in Berlin, the direct predecessor of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 1896, he was appointed professor at the Conservatory of...

Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist and composer. He received his first violin lessons from his father at the age of five. At seven years old, he already gave his first public concert. However, it didn't go as his father would have liked it. Eugène didn't try his hardest and at one moment the Conservatory of Liège even refuse to take him because of his bad performance.
In 1873, he received 12 lessons from Henryk Wieniawski. Since he admired Wieniawski so much, these lessons had an enormous impact on his career. In 1880, he became the concert master for one year of the Bilse Orchestra in Berlin, the direct predecessor of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 1896, he was appointed professor at the Conservatory of Brussels. At this point, it was clear Ysaÿe was not just a masterful violinist, but also a great composer.

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"It seemed effortless. In this concert she let her violin sing and dance at the same time and put her engaging and demanding game to bind her public note for nice."
Leeuwarder Courant, 05-2-2016

Jacob's exultant phrasing and captivaiting sonority reaching new heights
The Strad, 15-10-2014

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Record Review, 01-6-2014

Sensual allure...Jacobs' deeply felt beguilingly phrased readings ****
BBC music magazine, 01-5-2014

Lisa Jacobs has made a stunning debut album, really a record to be proud of.
Opus Klassiek, 10-4-2014

Almost all everyone will find that the performances, the recorded sound, and the instrument--as well the program itself--fuse into an irresistible, nearly overwhelming whole. Strongly recommended.
Fanfare Magazine, 07-4-2014

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Luister, 07-3-2014

“ If I start writing words like ‘perfect’ and ‘ideal’ you know where I am going. A ‘Luister 10’ for Lisa Jacobs and Ksenia Kourmekno. And for the record team that reaches an equally perfect balance.”
Luister, 01-3-2014

World class chamber music!
PlatoMania, 12-2-2014

"Only for this part the cd is already a great catch"
Musicalifeiten, 22-11-2013