Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 35 by Christopher Park & others

Ferruccio Busoni, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger

Christopher Park & others

Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 35

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533619
Catnr: AVI 8553361
Release date: 10 March 2017
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CAvi

UPC
4260085533619

Catalogue number
AVI 8553361

Release date
10 March 2017

"A very successful edition with a nice balance between familiar and less popular, but certainly not less interesting repertoire, all equally full of fanastie played with adventurous spirit and exemplary recorded with superior quality instruments."

De Pianist, 20-1-2017

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About the album

Johannes Brahms's piano oeuvre was one of the 2016 Ruhr Piano Festival's main themes. That emphasis is reflected, naturally, in the choice of works for our annual boxed set of albums, along with the anniversaries of two further composers, the works of whom are - quite unjustly - seldom performed: Max Reger (marking the 100th anniversary of his death), and Ferruccio Busoni (celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth). Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24, can be viewed as an act of artistic liberation, here in a version by young German-Korean pianist Christopher Park, who performed his debut recital at the Festival. Finally, Max Reger's technically and musically challenging Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Georg Philip Telemann, Op. 134 are heard in a virtuoso rendition by Joseph Moog. Max Reger's Watercolors, Op. 25, pay omage to the Romantic piano tradition, performed by Anna Tsybuleva, whom we invited as the laureate of teh 2015 Leeds Competi

Artist(s)

Christopher Park (piano)

Born of German-Korean parents in Bamberg in 1987, Christopher Park was admitted as a junior student at the age of 12 to the Saar University of Music. In the course of his studies he was influenced by two major musical traditions, thanks to the teaching of Lev Natochenny and Joachim Volkmann. In 2014, the jury of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Foundation presented him with the Leonard Bernstein Award. Park has made solo appearances with a number of German orchestras including the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra (Heilbronn), and the radio symphony orchestras of NDR broadcasting (Hamburg) and HR (Frankfurt), col- laborating with conductors of the likes of Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi, Sebastian Weigle, Ion Marin and Paul Daniel. He has performed in...

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Joseph Moog (piano)

Born in 1987 in Ludwigshafen, Joseph Moog started sitting down regularly at the piano when he was four. At the age of ten he was accepted as a young student at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, before going on to study in Würzburg and Hannover. Moog has a fine sense for combining repertoire. He places well-loved pieces alongside rare niche findings, searching for new insight and thereby throwing a different light on familiar music – for instance, when he places shining gems of the Late Baroque period such as Domenico Scarlatti’s brief sonatas alongside piano transcriptions and arrangements from the 19th century, or when, instead of pairing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Schumann Concerto, he chooses to feature Moritz Moszkowski instead: a true discovery. Moog has twice won the International Classical Music Award (ICMA); in 2009 he was selected as a Young Steinway Artist. He has garnered further international prizes such as the 2015 Gramophone Classical Music Award as Young Artist of the Year, followed by a 2016 Grammy nomination. Moog is featured in several instances on CDs of the Edition Ruhr Piano Festival: for instance, on Vol. 35 with Max Reger’s Telemann Variations. Volume 32 includes an entire CD performed by Moog, with works by Liszt, Debussy, and others. He guested at the Ruhr Piano Festival for the 5th time in 2017.

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Fabian Müller (piano)

The Bern-based pianist Fabian M. Mueller (born 1983 in St. Gallen) has not only won many prizes and is a successful band leader (FM Trio), but is also active with various ensembles (Augur Ensemble, Apart Of) on numerous European stages and many CDs. He is distinguished by his extremely imaginative playing, which repeatedly explores boundaries. He is a great composer at the same time. 'Rhythmically advanced sounds with powerful effects, energetic clusters, fidgety dance figures, completely transparent melodies and muscular, rolling bass now and then with a touch of Africa seem to flow from Mueller's fingers more or less in passing.' (Jazz thing)

The Bern-based pianist Fabian M. Mueller (born 1983 in St. Gallen) has not only won many prizes and is a successful band leader (FM Trio), but is also active with various ensembles (Augur Ensemble, Apart Of) on numerous European stages and many CDs. He is distinguished by his extremely imaginative playing, which repeatedly explores boundaries. He is a great composer at the same time. "Rhythmically advanced sounds with powerful effects, energetic clusters, fidgety dance figures, completely transparent melodies and muscular, rolling bass now and then with a touch of Africa seem to flow from Mueller's fingers more or less in passing." (Jazz thing)

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Anna Tsybuleva (piano)

Described by Gramophone Magazine as embodying “superb pianism and intelligent musicianship”, Anna Tsybuleva shot into the international spotlight in 2015 when she was crowned First Prize Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition. She received wide critical acclaim for her winning performance, and was described as “A pianist of rare gifts: not since Murray Perahia’s triumph in 1972 has Leeds had a winner of this musical poise and calibre” (International Piano Magazine).
Now a regular performer in major cities worldwide, Tsybuleva’s early experiences were more modest.
Born in 1990, she was raised in the mountains of Nizhny Arkhyz – a small village of approximately 500 inhabitants – in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic of Greater Caucasus, where nature and the beauty of her surroundings proved a constant source of inspiration. These beginnings have served to feed directly into the development of her unique performance style today, which is one of captivating intimacy: drawing the listener into a private sphere of music-making in even the largest of concert halls. Tsybuleva’s “Complete Debussy Préludes: The Visual Album” (YouTube, 2023) captures and portrays this beautifully. Since her early rural beginnings, Tsybuleva has gone on to triumph in recital on many of the greatest international stages, including Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Luzern, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Tonhalle Zürich, and the Wigmore Hall.
Recent and forthcoming highlights as concerto soloist include engagements with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Orquesta Extremadura, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. She has the pleasure of collaborating with such esteemed conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Sir Mark Elder, Jonathon Heyward, Michał Nesterowicz, Yuri Temirkanov, Krzysztof Urbański, and Duncan Ward, to name a few.
Tsybuleva is signed to record label Signum Classics for a multi-disc deal, releasing her debut concerto recording on the label in 2021 to enormous critical acclaim (Brahms Piano Concerto No.2, with DSO Berlin conducted by Ruth Reinhardt). Praise for her interpretation included “Poetic lyricism, combining geniality with grace” (Gramophone), and “Tsybuleva reveals deep empathy for the hushed anguish cocooned in the heart of Brahms. Passionate, exquisite, hypnotic” (BBC Music Magazine). In 2022, she made the world-premiere recording of a newly commissioned piano concerto, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.
Tsybuleva took her first piano lessons with her mother at the age of 6, before attending the Shostakovich Music School in Volgodonsk aged 9. From age 13, she continued her studies at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, under internationally renowned pedagogue Professor Lyudmila Roschina. During this time, Tsybuleva garnered her first major competition wins – including the Grand Prix of the International Gilels Piano Competition (2013), and top prizes from the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2012) and Takamatsu International Piano Competition (2014).
After graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire in 2014 with the coveted award for ‘Best Student’, Tsybuleva furthered her studies with Claudio Martínez-Mehner at the Hochschule für Musik Basel. During these two years, she developed her growing passion for Romantic repertoire of the German School, and won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015 with her captivating performance of Brahms Piano Concerto No.2, under the baton of Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra. Tsybuleva has since combined her international performance career with a thirst for further knowledge, and has just completed post- graduate studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. With her “energetic elan, bravura, and heart-on-sleeve communication” (International Piano Magazine), Anna Tsybuleva is fast emerging as one of the finest pianists of her generation, “destined to become a world piano star” (APE Musicale, Italy).
Tsybuleva remains true to the core values of her early years. Keen to share the beauty of her childhood with others, in 2022 she launched her inaugural annual festival – AlterSono – amidst the mountains, rivers, and 10th century temples of her hometown (which is now also home to the world’s largest space telescope). Combining music, science, space, and people, the festival invites artists and audiences to embark upon a magical journey of artistic, humanist, and scientific exploration – themes close to Anna’s heart.
Anna Tsybuleva is proud to be a part of the Yamaha Artist family, and grateful to Yamaha for their kindness and support.

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Gina Alice (piano)

Young rising star Gina Alice is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Born in 1994 in Wiesbaden, she became a junior member of Lev Natochenny’s masterclass at the Frankfurt University of Music and Perform- ing Arts. She is currently perfecting her craft under the tutelage of Bernhard Wetz in the same institution, and has received further valuable instruction from Gary Graffman in New York. She began performing in public in Germany at the age of eight. In 2007 she made her first televised appearance in the “Klassik-Kids” show: a widely acclaimed performance of the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, accompanied by the Berlin Youth Orchestra. Ever since 2012, Gina Alice has been giving guest performances on a regular basis with the Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin in the Philharmonie. In 2013 she performed the inaugural solo recital in a new concert series entitled “Young Virtuosi”, in the sold-out concert hall of the Frankfurt broadcasting station Hessischer Rundfunk (HR). Apart from a great number of appearances in Germany, Gina Alice has gained initial international experience by honoring invitations to perform in France and in Spain. She gave her Ruhr Piano Festival début in 2016.

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Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

Born in Geneva in 1987, Louis Schwizgebel studied with Brigitte Meyer in Lausanne and Pascal Devoyon in Berlin. He went on to perfect his craft at the Juilliard School in New York with Emanuel Ax and Robert McDonald, as well as at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Pascal Némirovski. At the age of seventeen he won the Geneva International Music Competition and, two years later, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. In 2012 he won Second Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition and was selected to go on tour as a BBC New Generation Artist from 2013 to 2015. Schwizgebel has performed with many orchestras around the globe, including the London Philharmonic, the BBC Sym- phony, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Orchestre National de Lyon. He was worked together with conductors such as Edward Gardner, Thierry Fischer, Joshua Weilerstein, Fabio Luisi, Leonard Slatkin, and James Gaffigan. Schwizgebel has performed at the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and at Verbier Festival. In 2014 he gave his BBC Proms début with an electrifying rendition of Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto. Louis Schwizgebel gave his first Ruhr Piano Festival recital in 2016.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Busoni was a man with many faces. He was born in Tuscany from a German mother and Italian father, and settled down in Berlin, after visiting Leipzig, Helsinki and Moscow. There he established himself as a composer, but above all a phenomenal pianist. His music shows some discrepancies. On the one hand, he looks back on the Romantic period with his giant pianoconcerto with male choir as the absolute pinnacle. On the onder hand, he looks forward to the future and found that music had to be freed of the chains of outdated ideas. In his much-read manifest 'Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst’ (1907), Busoni sketches his ideal image of music, and in his Six Sonatinas for piano he...

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the universityuntil 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on...

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A very successful edition with a nice balance between familiar and less popular, but certainly not less interesting repertoire, all equally full of fanastie played with adventurous spirit and exemplary recorded with superior quality instruments.
De Pianist, 20-1-2017