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Label Champs Hill |
UPC 5060212591487 |
Catalogue number CHRCD 141 |
Release date 07 September 2018 |
Dit debuutalbum van de Zuid-Koreaanse violiste Jiyoon Lee, begeleid door de Amerikaanse pianist Henry Kramer, maakt onderdeel uit van haar prijs voor het winnen van de Windsor International Strings Competition in 2015, met een recital van Stravinsky, Wieniawski, Bartok, Szymanowski en Ravel. Wat een fantastisch gevoelig spel van deze violiste die alom geprezen wordt om haar virtuositeit. En vlak ook de adequate en zo zeer passende begeleiding van de pianist niet uit.
Album vol gevoelens en emoties
Jiyoon Lee: “Het album Mythes gaat over gevoelens, emoties en verbeelding, de meest cruciale elementen van het musiceren. Het volledige opnameproces met de enige echte Henry Kramer was een groot genoegen, en ik hoop oprecht dat het je naar een reis vol avonturen en fantasieën zal leiden.”
Een serieuze winnaar
Jiyoon Lee kwam voor het eerst in de aandacht toen ze in 2013 de David Oistrakh International Violin Competition won. Waarna ze vervolgens heel wat eerste prijzen in de wacht sleepte zoals die van de Indianapolis Violin Competition en de Queen Elizabeth en Carl Nielsen Violin Competitions. De violiste treedt overal ter wereld op, net als Henry Kramer die ook diverse grote prijzen won. Bovendien werd hij bekroond met een onderscheiding van de legendarische Julliard School in New York.
Pianist Henry Kramer is establishing himself as one of the most exciting American musicians of his generation. His performances have been praised by critics as “triumphant” and “thrilling” (The New York Times), and “technically effortless” (La Presse, Montreal).
Henry has been invited to play with orchestras across the globe including the National Belgian Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey, the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain du Montreal, and the Yale Philharmonia. He has soloed under the batons of preeminent conductors Marin Alsop, Jan Pascal Tortelier, and Stéphane Dénève.
Mr. Kramer has been a guest performer in recitals at Portland Piano International (Oregon), The Cliburn Foundation, and the National Chopin Foundation in Miami and in important venues like Carnegie Hall (Zankel and Wiell), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall in Antwerp (Belgium) and BOZAR in Brussels. Deeply committed to the chamber music repertoire, he has been featured in performances at Lincoln Center, and has participated in the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, Music@Menlo’s International Program, and the Verbier Festival Academy.
Wieniawski was a Polish composer. Even though he came from a jewish family, his father converted to catholocism. Wieniawski's violin talent was quickly discovere, in 1843 he attended the conservatory of Paris at the age of 8. After he graduated, Wieniawski went on tour giving many recitals. He was often accompanied by his brother, Józef. In 1847, he published his first work, the Grand Caprice Fantastique.
On invitation by Anton Rubinstein, Wieniawski moved to St. Petersburg where he stayed until 1872. There, he taught a large number of violin students, led the Russian Musical Society's orchestra and string quartet. Fro, 1872 to 1874, Wieniawski toured throughout the United States together with Rubinstein and in 1875, he replaced Henri Vieuxtemps as a violin teacher at the conservatory of Brussels. In Brussels, his health declined fast, which at one time forced him to stop a performance midway through. He gave his farewell concert in 1879. A year later he died from a heart attack in Moscow.